The PSOE rules out that the Government is going to apply a 155 to CyL for the measures on abortion that "reduce rights"

He accuses Feijóo of being a "hostage" of Vox and remaining silent to "pass the buck" and not appear in the photo

MADRID, 16 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Education and PSOE Spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, has ruled out that the Government is going to apply article 155 to intervene in autonomy in Castilla y León after the approval of measures related to abortion in this region. "The Government is not there", she has pointed out at the same time that she has accused the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of being a "hostage" of Vox and remaining silent to "pass the buck" on this matter.

Pilar Alegría has thus referred to the controversy sparked by the vice president of Castilla y León, Juan García Gallardo, when on Friday he announced a mandatory protocol for doctors to perform a 4D ultrasound and teach pregnant women the heartbeat who wish to abort. However, the president of this region, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has indicated that this protocol is not mandatory.

The socialist spokesperson recalled that the Minister of Health sent a letter last week to the CyL Board to explain the content of the aforementioned protocol. Given the lack of response, she has said, the Government issued a requirement yesterday.

Now the Executive is "waiting for them to give an answer", she specified when asked if the Executive is studying the application of article 155 of the Constitution, which would mean the intervention of the autonomy, in case they do not rectify the measures. "We do not know where this information came from", said the minister while she stressed that "the Government is not there" but waiting for the "immediate response from the Government of CyL".

However, he did not want to clarify what the next steps of the Executive will be and if he will take legal action for the protocol of the Junta de Castilla y León on pregnant women who decide to abort.

Having said this, the minister has urged the president of the Popular Party to "show face" and say what his opinion is regarding the proposed measure in Castilla y León. "She must explain to everyone and especially to women what she thinks of the cuts to their rights that her government, in collaboration with VOX, wants to carry out in CyL," she has inquired of the PP leader on several occasions.

Although it has also stripped him of that authority as president of the main opposition party by assuring that Feijóo's silence discredits him to lead the PP and he is nothing more than the "Vox hostage". Something that he has justified because the Popular Party knows that Vox is its "natural partner" and it needs him to govern.

For this reason, he added, Feijóo has been silent for four days, he wants to dodge the bulge and not appear in the photo, but he has warned him that if he remains silent he will only be understood in one way and that is that "he lacks authority, he has an absence of authority within the PP".

The Minister of Education wanted to emphasize the idea that the Government and the PSOE are not going to allow "not even a reduction in women's rights" which, in her opinion, is what the PP wants and has warned that Castilla y León's measure is the prelude to what would happen if they governed Spain.

In fact, he believes that the measure of the PP-Vox government "is not improvised" but that it intends to follow the path of Hungary and Poland and the one that the ultra-rightists in the United States intended to follow.

And he has insisted that the one who should establish a position is Feijóo, despite the fact that the PP spokesman and the general secretary of that party have already done so, because he considers that the Popular Party is a "cage of shackles" and the president of Castilla and León, in his opinion, contradicts what the leaders from Madrid say.

When asked if the PSOE would be willing to lend its votes to the PP to prevent it from agreeing with Vox to govern, Alegría recalled that in municipal and regional elections in 2019, the PSOE clearly won the elections in many municipalities and CCAAs, and yet the PP "shaked hands with Vox". And she has set herself as an example, since after having won the elections for mayor of Zaragoza, she could not govern due to the PP pact with Vox and Cs.

For what he has insisted that this "coalition of fear" leads to setbacks and goes against women. "There are times when this false moderation and euphemisms have no place, we are not talking about certain measures or protocols, but about curtailing women's rights, creating a climate where women are singled out, generating an atmosphere of guilt for women who have the right to decide about their lives", she exclaimed.

On whether this is going to be the strategy of the PSOE and if they are not afraid of going too far after the Andalusians, pointing out the coalition of the PP with Vox led the PP to have an absolute majority, the socialist leader has indicated that the strategy of her party will be to work to improve people's lives. But she has pointed out that they are going to face them when what is at stake is "cutting off women's rights."

Also, and given the astonishment expressed by Mañueco at the behavior of the Government, Pilar Alegría has specified that the "astonishment" belongs to women who in the 21st century see how measures that reduce their rights are approved. In addition, and before the affirmation of the president of CyL that the doctors are not going to be forced to do anything, he has asked if Mañueco has already called Mr. García Gallardo: "Let's see if in 5 minutes he will go out to amend the plan ".

Pilar Alegría has also ruled on information published today by the ABC newspaper according to which former minister Francisco Álvarez Casos would have received almost 5 million from construction companies to which he awarded AVE contracts when he was the head of the Public Works portfolio.

In this regard, the socialist spokeswoman recalled a publication from a few months ago in which, she recalled, it was said that Cascos was going to be the friend chosen by Feijóo to unite the right in Asturias. "What an eye that the PP has when choosing its friends," she exclaimed.