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Pablo Iglesias against Vox: "They are an anti-democratic party." And Vox against Pablo Iglesias: "Is he going to physically liquidate us? Is he going to outlaw us?" The second vice president of the Government and the deputy María Ruiz returned to star in the control session of the Government in Congress in a very tough and tense confrontation two weeks after the leader of Podemos disqualified them as "parasites" and "miserable" to the members of Santiago Abascal's party.

In the 'return match' of that debate, as a result of an interpellation presented by the Madrid deputy to influence, among other things, the management that is being done of the nursing homes and their skyrocketing death toll, Iglesias avoided giving the slightest explanation about the centers for the elderly and he chose to monopolize his two turns to speak with Vox.

"There is no greater threat to democracy than you because democracy is the greatest threat to you," said the second vice president, after an extensive 10-point argument that, in his opinion, Vox would have to be considered a party. "antidemocrat". "They are not a Spanish party," he concluded, "because they only represent the interests of those who have no more homeland than their money."

María Ruiz accused Iglesias of behaving as an "intolerant sectarian" and of "threatening" Vox from his role as second vice president and from the rostrum of Congress, when he assured that the Spanish people "will get rid of the filth they represent" .

"How do you intend to carry out your threat? Are you going to limit yourself to inciting hatred with your talk so that others do the dirty work for you?" He asked, recalling that recently the label "kill Abascal "by, he added," courtesy "of the" followers "of Iglesias.

"What are you going to do? Are you going to physically liquidate us? Are you going to outlaw us as a party? Are you going to prevent us from going to the polls? What is your plan?" Continued the Vox deputy. Ruiz reproached him that Spain deserves a vice president who knows how to govern without "rancor" or "hatred" and reproached him that his problem was that after waiting so long to govern at the moment of truth it had become a "fraud". "Spain is not to blame for its incompetence or frustration, and that is why Spain does not have to pay for it with its hatred," he assured.

"Medicine to die, not to cure"

The Vox deputy regretted that the "threats" and the "insults" have not been of any use to solve the problem of the residences and had an impact on the fact that 17,500 elderly people are already dead and that they could exceed 20,000 when the updated data is available. all Spain. Thus, Ruiz accused Iglesias of "condemning the elderly to death" and of sending them more morphine and "medication to die" than medicines and measures to cure them of the coronavirus.

Faced with the seriousness of the situation, he reproached him for using the speech against Vox for not answering any of his questions on this subject and for acting as if he were at the Complutense University , making "violent harangues" and "incendiary soflamas".

For his part, Iglesias counterattacked, denying that Vox can be considered a democratic party because of its position on issues such as health, education, pensions, fiscal justification, housing or feminism. Issues for which he attacked them, among other things, calling him a party of "false architects and cheek who seek to enrich themselves with real estate speculation." Likewise, he linked them to Francoism and the defense of all those who became rich in it.

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