In the middle of the speech of the former President of the Government José Luis Rodriguez Zapateroand when it was exactly 8:11 p.m., the leaders and activists of the PSOE gathered at the Federal Congress of the party in Seville They observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims of DANA.
The chosen time is not a coincidence. Barely a month ago, on October 29, at 8:11 p.m., the emergency alert sounded on the cell phones of all Valencians.
“Since the 41st Congress of the PSOE in Seville, we want to join this tribute and we ask you to join this action,” said the PSOE.
At the end of the 60-second stoppage, the former socialist leader had to silence those who had started chanting repeatedly “Mazon, resignation”. “Okay, okay, okay; victims first,” Zapatero asked.
Zapatero was rewarded for his feminist politics at the start of the PSOE congress. “Feminism is the best thing that happened to history and civilization,” she stressed. “It gives meaning to life, to the struggle, just as being a member of this party gives meaning,” said Zapatero, who considered that the destiny of the PSOE is “to convince, to work and to win.”
He also said that when he was president, when he appointed a joint government, “female ministers worked better” because “they worked better.” “I’m sorry, but it’s my experience, and it’s something I need to discuss with Pedro (Sánchez), to see if he has the same feeling,” he said, unable to contain his smile.
“The Pill”
Zapatero referred to certain episodes of “machismo” that have occurred in recent days, such as the fact that the Vox deputy in Congress Pedro Fernández declared to the Podemos MP Martina Velarde if he had taken “the pill”, or the judge’s allusion Eloy Velasco to the former minister and MEP of Podemos Irene Montero as “mercadona cashier”.
“The Spanish extreme right is the pill, what regrettablethat cowardice“, indicated the former president, for whom socialists must show solidarity and support any woman who suffers “these humiliations”.
