PP accuses Díaz of "shoddy feminism" in the yes-is-yes controversy and the vice president replies that they are "pharisees"

Maroto criticizes that Díaz tries to hide in this matter while the minister censors the appeals to laws that advance rights

MADRID, 21 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The spokesman for the PP in the Senate, Javier Maroto, has accused the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, of exercising "lip service and shoddy feminism" for going "on tiptoe", under his criteria, in the face of the "scandal" of the Law 'only yes is yes', which has benefited 500 sexual offenders.

For her part, the also Minister of Labor has replied that the popular act as "pharisees" with the rights of women and the LGTBi-trans collective, because they have appealed in court the laws that have led to advances for these groups such as marriage gay.

During the full control of the Government in the upper house, Maroto has attributed to Díaz an "embarrassing" attitude with the controversy of the reform of the Law only if it is yes, which consists of "not getting wet" about the changes to be undertaken and appealing to discretion and agreement when she feels "cornered" by the media.

Therefore, the popular senator has urged the vice president to answer if she agrees to change the law and in what terms, since you cannot be vice president of Spain and try to go unnoticed in the face of the biggest "scandal" that is shaking the Government .

Maroto has raised his reproaches to Díaz and has criticized his "political cowardice" that makes him "more complicit" with the Law 'only yes is yes', to later denounce that he has many words about women's rights, but "when he arrives the moment of truth" and to position itself before the reduction of sentences for sexual offenders practices a "shoddy feminism".

Finally, he has censured that Díaz seeks to avoid "electoral wear" and that together with the president, Pedro Sánchez, they are "two sides of the same coin" because they appeal to take care of the coalition, which for normal people translates as "take care of your chair" .

In her reply, the second vice president has ironized the "very refined" parliamentary style of the PP spokesperson, who has demanded that she deal "rigorously" with matters such as gender violence and answer if she thinks that agreeing with Vox, a party that denies, is to help women.

"I already tell you no," Díaz has linked to label the PP as a "pharisee" that has resorted to all the regulations that represent advances for women and the LGTBi collective, such as the abortion law, endorsed by the Constitutional Court and that It has led the party leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to deploy a "conclave of cardinals" to admit that the voluntary interruption of pregnancy is a right.

He has also reminded Maroto that his formation opposed the marriage law for LGTBi people and has questioned him if he remembered and felt "comfortable" with the "embarrassing" statements by the former mayor of Madrid Ana Botella, when she said that there was no than to confuse "apples and pears".

Finally, Díaz has transferred to Maroto that he understands that he worries about his future and has launched that his political style was already portrayed during the internal conflict that implied the departure of the former president of the formation Pablo Casado.

Finally, the Minister of Labor has proclaimed that the coalition government has a future and that the PP is going to remain "for a long time" in the opposition.