Sánchez charges against Arrimadas: "He has turned Ciudadanos into the sad echo of the extreme right"

MADRID, 15 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The spokesperson for Citizens in Congress, Inés Arrimadas, has asked the president, Pedro Sánchez, this Wednesday to recentralize health powers in the face of the waiting lists suffered by the autonomous communities, and the PSOE leader has attacked her, assuring that has turned the 'orange' party into the "sad echo" of the extreme right.

This has been done by the president during the control session in the Lower House, where Arrimadas has focused on the health situation throughout the territory and the waiting lists, stressing that it is not only bad in the autonomous communities where he governs the PP. "It is the reality of the majority of Spaniards," he added.

Arrimadas has advocated removing the health competence from the autonomous communities, trusting that this recentralization will serve "to guarantee a good service" to all Spaniards, thanks to the elimination of inequality in access between autonomous communities or stopping the "massive exodus "of doctors.

The parliamentary spokesperson has also alluded to the "problem" caused by the 'Only yes is yes' Law, which has caused a cascade of reductions in sentences for sexual offenders since it came into force, and has stated that it is "incredible" that Sánchez the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has not been dismissed. Finally, she has mocked the video of the president with young recipients of the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI): "They are going to give him the Goya", she has said.

Faced with questions from the 'orange' spokesperson, Sánchez has reproached Ciudadanos who in his day "propped up" PP governments such as in Madrid and Andalusia and has told him that "one of the things that would contribute to improving health" in the territories "is to have progressive governments." "And not the ones you support", she has implied.

Immediately afterwards, and after enumerating some of the policies that his Executive has carried out, such as eliminating the pharmaceutical co-payment, he regretted that the orange party "has ended as it has ended" because he considers that "there were many people who believed that they were going to bring renewal and was going to contribute to economic growth.

In Sánchez's opinion, what these people "do not deserve" is that the 'orange' party "has turned their voice into an alibi for the extreme right" and is "the sad echo of the extreme right".