The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, has called the press chief of Alvise Pérez’s party, Vito Quiles, a “bag of shit”, which is why the Popular Party has demanded his “withering dismissal” from the Government.
The crossover of accusations came after Vito Quiles published a message this Sunday on the social network Taylor Swift at the Santiago Bernabéu.
For his part, Oscar Puente has reacted to the message by calling him a “bag of shit” and ensuring that the published images correspond to the license plate of a police vehicle and that he will personally make sure that he pays for it “dearly.” “I’m going to explain it to you again, you bastard. That’s not my car. Neither official nor private. And I’ll add more. You’re spreading the license plate of a police vehicle. I’m going to personally make sure you pay dearly,” he said. responded the head of Transportation.
The reactions to this message have not been long in coming from the Popular Party, which have accused Oscar Puente of threatening a journalist, whom they have supported for his work, for which they have demanded that he present his resignation from the Government. “The degeneration: today a minister of Spain has threatened and called a journalist a “bag of shit.” If Sánchez does not stop him suddenly and his colleagues do not condemn this aggression, they will be supporting Puente. My support for the professionals who suffer these attacks of the Government,” wrote the PP spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Tellado, on the social network
The minister’s response to this comment by Miguel Tellado came minutes later: “Tellado, the degeneration is you,” wrote Oscar Puente along with the capture of a news item in which reference is made to some statements by the PP spokesperson in Congress in those who said that Pedro Sánchez “should leave the country in a trunk” because he had become “a threat to democracy.”
The spokesperson for the Popular Party, Borja Sémper, has spoken along the same lines, saying that it is “questionable” for a minister to engage in “Tweet controversies.” “But what is really serious is seeing him insulting, splashing in the mud and degrading his high rank. We deserve something else,” he stressed on the same social network.
For her part, the vice-secretary of Mobilization and Digital Challenge of the PP, Noelia Núñez, has called the message “intolerable”, ensuring that the use of its forms “yes is mud and yes it is degradation of institutional policy.” Likewise, the National Deputy Secretary of Health and Education of the PP, Ester Muñoz, has questioned the “level” of a minister who “in any civilized country this would mean a sudden dismissal.” “Here the president of the mud will give him a pat. We need a serious government as soon as possible,” she published.
The PP Deputy Secretary of Economy, Juan Bravo, has spoken in similar terms, criticizing that a minister “insults and threatens” a journalist. “But remember that those of us in the mud and mud are the rest of us. No one will resign and no one will be dismissed, because that would imply that there is even a minimum of dignity in this Government,” he challenged.
