Irene Montero responds to Sánchez's criticism: "Sorry for the inconvenience, but they are killing us"

Pedro Sánchez's criticisms of the speech and management of the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, have irritated Podemos, which has chosen not to confront as on previous occasions, but has replied to his words. In the middle of the campaign, and once the decision was made to adopt a “modest” profile, “behind Yolanda Díaz”, the Minister of Equality responded by uploading an image to her Twitter profile, in which a banner reads “sorry for the inconvenience, but they are killing us”. He did it hours after the head of the Executive made his “confrontation” speech ugly, and that he appealed to “integrative feminism” as a “pending task” of “progressive Spain”. The dispute over the feminist flag has been constant throughout the coalition government, and the differences between the two partners have been at the epicenter of a good part of their high-voltage discussions..

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— Irene Montero (@IreneMontero) June 19, 2023

For his part, the former second vice president, Pablo Iglesias, was ironic from one of his programs on his television, Canal Red: “You know girls. Feminism? A little bit, okay, but don't bother us gentlemen”. “It is that you are very annoying. If I told you, Pedro. I wish I had vice presidents like yours, and not these three harpies” [referring to her collaborators on set], “and at home the Minister of Equality, I am cornered”. Among them was Dina Bousselham, former home leader, who also resorted to irony. “Policies that denounce inequalities and try to correct them cannot be done since the conflict,” he replied, stating that these statements could also have been made by the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

Along the same lines, the former head of Argumentario and deputy of Unidas Podemos, Pedro Honrrubia, accused Sánchez of “publicly throwing the entire Ministry of Equality and its policies into the public bonfire.”. Also to “publicly deny” laws “such as the reform of the abortion law”, “the trans law and the law of the only yes is yes”. “Sánchez will later go around the world and poke his chest out of those policies when they congratulate him for it, but today here he has assumed all the frames of reaction as his own”. “He'll regret it. And we will all pay the consequences, all of us. Huge sadness,” he said on his Twitter profile..

Sánchez with Alsina has just publicly renounced policies such as the reform of the abortion law, the trans law and the law of the only yes is yes that is still in force except in the part of consent that was reformed by the PP. To those who have not been able to put…

— Pedro Honrubia 🔻 (@Eselkaos) June 19, 2023

“I think there is an impression that, above all, there is a citizen, men between 40 and 50 years old, who has seen on some occasions that some speeches have been uncomfortable towards them, and I think that is a mistake”. In an interview on Onda Cero, the Prime Minister acknowledged on Monday his “public and notorious” discrepancies with Montero, to which his party has already amended the plan by unilaterally modifying the yes is yes law, the star measure of his Ministry, to try to stop the reduction of sentences for sexual offenders benefited by this rule. The PSOE leader appeals to his party as a useful vote in the next general elections, and today he has taken another step to wrest from Montero and Podemos a flag that the PSOE always wanted to fly alone.