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The PP spokeswoman in the Congress of Deputies, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, feels supported by the leadership of her party. And not only is he reaffirmed in his qualifications on the father of Pablo Iglesias, but on Tuesday he has announced that he will resort to the Constitutional Court if his words remain "kidnapped" in square brackets in the congressional session diary, since the president of the Chamber asked to withdraw them.

At a press conference, Álvarez de Toledo replied to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who reacted to his intervention by assuring: "Enough of this type of parliamentary spectacle." The spokeswoman has rebutted him like this: "I do not share his assessment of my intervention, I do not share his assessment of the situation in Parliament, nor of the debate that took place last week. I disagree, I fully understand that he may not like some interventions , as he will understand that I do not like some of his interventions, and I have written it in the past as a journalist ".

The popular spokeswoman has assured that she "has always" encouraged "open and public debate", but "it is impossible to react to anonymous sources", in clear reference to the anonymous statements made by her colleagues and bosses about her. "I encourage anonymous sources" to debate "openly," because "I cannot debate with the shadows," Álvarez de Toledo has challenged.

Asked if she feels supported by Pablo Casado, she has answered emphatically: "Yes, yes." "I have not made my position available, far from it," he said, before revealing that he spoke with the PP president "after the plenary session" last Wednesday (in which the controversy occurred). "We have a very fluid relationship, very natural. In this particular case I have not received any complaint or discrepancy from him. Another thing is that he had them," said the leader.

Álvarez de Toledo did not want to speak of Pablo Iglesias' father as an "ex-terrorist". "The father of Iglesias not only does not abjure his militancy in the FRAP , but boasts of his belonging to an organization that murdered," he defended. On the contrary, other people who belonged to terrorist organizations in the past and later evolved towards democracy do seem "great democrats" to them.

"Institutional degradation"

On the other hand, the PP spokeswoman in the Lower House has stressed that "Sánchez is ultimately responsible, as Prime Minister," for the "institutional degradation" that Spain is experiencing . "It is hard to believe that what has happened in this country is outside of Sánchez. There is a very long list: the appointment of the State Attorney General, the purge in the State Advocacy , the appointment of Tezanos in the CIS, the orders to the Civil Guard of pursuing the climate of disaffection on social networks, the closure of Parliament ... "and a long etcetera that Álvarez de Toledo finds as factual proof that" there is a political climate within the Government of absolute contempt for the institutions and its person in charge is Sánchez ".

The PP deputy has criticized Citizens for their pact with the Government. "I hope he does not insist on error and consolidate a strategy of agreement. His decision on the state of alarm seems to me to be a mistake" and "a useless vote contrary to the original project of Ciudadanos." For Álvarez de Toledo, this support "contributes to laundering those who in turn launder ERC", those, he pointed out, who assure that they "will do it again", in reference to the unilateral declaration of independence of Catalonia .

For the spokesperson, it is no longer time to ask for a question of trust from Pedro Sánchez, as she did in April. "It was a reflection I made in another phase, but it would not make sense now." Another similar example that has been has been "a Government of concentration". "I would love to," he insisted. But "Sánchez would have to be another Sánchez".

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