He Minister of Transport and Urban Mobility, Óscar Puente, was involved in an incident this Tuesday in the Senate when he reproached the mayor of Huelva, Pilar Miranda, who was in the guest gallery following a question about the AVE to the capital of Huelva, for having come “to Miranda” in the Upper House instead of tackling the problems of her city.
In response to the aforementioned question, posed by the PP senator of Huelva Juan Manuel González, Puente criticized that his party “brought the other day for a very similar question” to the mayor “and Today they bring him here again as an audiencehonoring his family name. “He’s on the lookout in the Senate,” Puente said.
The minister wondered “if the mayor of Huelva has nothing better to do than come here at the public treasury’s expense to answer a question”, after which he said that “the use of the institutions by the PP is shameful”. “If the mayor of Huelva wants to defend her territory, there are other ways to do it and not to lend itself to the act of the parliamentary group of the Senate of the Popular Party“.
“Shame on him. I have been mayor for eight years and of course I have never had the luxury of spending a morning “gazing” at Parliament. without solving the problems of my land,” added Oscar Puente.
The minister’s words, barely supported by some timid applause from the socialist deputies, motivated the PP senators to turn to the guest gallery to applaud Pilar Miranda. In addition, Senator Javier Arenas He asked to speak to demand respect from the mayor of Huelva and to reproach her for treating the mayor “like an object that is carried and brought.” Dignity, Mr. Puente, dignity.
“He thinks women are objects”
In this regard, Pilar Miranda called the minister “sexist” and criticized that “when he disrespects me, he doesn’t do it to me, he does it to all the people of Huelva.” After defending that she was in Madrid “fight for the rights of all the inhabitants of Huelva“And that he’s going to “continue to do it,” he added that “I got up at six in the morning and I’m here to do it.” “I’m going to go where I have to go and I’m sorry if you don’t like my presence, please fulfill your obligations.”
Miranda stressed that “last week it was the turn” of his colleague and MP Have a nice summer, “She was very polite in her question and he answered her in a bad way, and today it was my turn.”
“This unfortunately happened to me because He thinks women are objects that bring us and take us awayand he is very confused. We are going where our city must prevail. Our love for our land goes above all, and Minister Óscar Puente does not want us to ask questions about Huelva, he does not want us to ask questions about connections, he does not want us to put on the table the great disaster that he is creating in the portfolio that he leads from the government,” Miranda concluded.
