Begoña Gómezprotected by two escorts, has arrived on time at the Madrid Assembly, where she was summoned at 10 in the morning to appear at the investigation commission into the alleged favorable treatment given to her by the Complutense University of Madrid. Pedro Sánchez’s wife entered through the garage and went up to the commission room, where the session began with anger, since the PSOE wanted the print press to leave the room quickly, something that the president of the commission, of the PP. Gómez took the floor for a minute to denounce the “obvious political objective” of this investigative commission, which he has placed on the same level as the “collection of judicial complaints” that have been filed against it and the “hoaxes” that have been spread. . Thus, she warned that “sooner rather than later, the truth will put things in their place” and announced that she was taking advantage of her right not to answer the questions, advised by her lawyer, after fulfilling her obligation to appear in court. the commission.
The wife of the President of the Government, who has been accompanied by her lawyer, Antonio Camacho, has remained silent to each question that the PP spokesperson, Mercedes Zarzalejo, has asked her immediately afterwards. He has simply stared at this spokesperson, without saying a word. The PP has called his silence “outrageous” and has denounced his “lack of respect” for university professionals.
In her initial intervention, Begoña Gómez recalled that she has been working in consulting and teaching for 25 years: “I have coordinated teams, I have directed projects, I have advised more than fifty professionals from the private sector and the third sector.” She has assured that she has been collaborating with the Complutense University for 12 years as co-director of a master’s degree to train professionals specialized in social projects and sustainability projects and it is in 2020 when this collaboration at the Complutense University is expanded with an extraordinary chair, “which “It is common practice in public universities, and not remunerated.” Thus, she has defended that she has built a professional life with “a lot of effort and with full dedication like one more and like millions of women do.”
At that point, Begoña Gómez has assured that she is “fully aware” of the “political objective” of the investigation commission, and has immediately refused to answer a single one of the questions that the PP spokesperson has asked her.
In the commission, the PP has used its 20 minutes to ask Begoña Gómez different questions about her professorship at the Complutense, but has only had silence as a response. The intervention of the PP spokesperson has taken place in a very tense atmosphere, with continued interruptions and comments from the left to discredit the commission promoted by Ayuso’s PP. The PSOE spokesperson, Marta Bernardo, has tried to have the commission suspended, given the evidence that Begoña Gómez was not going to answer – “it would be absurd to continue” – but the president of the commission has completely ruled out that possibility, and Paso has called the socialist to order for her continued interruptions.
The PP spokesperson asked Begoña Gómez what she thinks she can say to young people who are trying to carve out a professional future with their efforts. “He has not said a single word, and that can only be justified by the evidence,” he said. And at that moment the PSOE protested again because the PP had exceeded its time. The president has taken away the microphone.
Zarzalejo has concluded and regretted the lack of respect and parliamentary decorum of the PSOE deputies. In his opinion, it is “outrageous that he has not given an answer or an explanation to university professionals who spend years preparing, researching, who put in many years of effort to direct a master’s degree. All those professionals deserved an explanation. And today the only thing he has given them with his silence is his contempt.
Through Vox, he has taken the floor Ana Cuarterowho recalled that the possible favorable treatment of the Complutense towards the appearing party is being investigated. From the first moment he has targeted Pedro Sánchez, and has denounced that he has used him for his purposes. He asked her if she wanted to point out any person, apart from her husband, as the intellectual authors of what is being investigated by the commission. Begoña Gómez has remained silent.
“You do not have a university education,” Vox recalled, and invited Begoña Gómez to deny it. But there has only been more silence. She has also questioned her about her merits for having an extraordinary professorship at the Complutense, and that her appointment as co-director occurred at the same time as her husband’s arrival to the presidency of the Government. “Her only merit was being the wife of the President of the Government and it was Pedro Sánchez who used his position as president to place her there.”
The Vox spokesperson has called Pedro Sánchez an “autocrat” and the president has asked him to withdraw it. Since she has not done so, he has called her to order and from the PSOE bench it has been heard: “This is a very summary trial.” «You have acted servilely as your husband’s front man, be careful not to end up as a scapegoat. The husband of the person appearing did not want to respond to the president of Vox at the parliamentary headquarters,” concluded Cuartero, who has been called to the issue again by the president.
In the turn of the PSOE, Marta Bernardo has charged against the spokesperson of the PP, for “Not knowing what an extraordinary professorship is”: “You have been called to testify because you are the wife of the President of the Government. You are not dedicated to politics, politics has not given you anything, I am sure otherwise. “She has been dedicated to her work for 25 years, and it is very difficult for the most rancid right in this country to assume it.” The president of the commission has called him to the issue, and the anger has flared up again.
«The PP with its absolute majority and its roller has wanted to put on a full-fledged show. More than 50 extraordinary professorships are offered at the Complutense University. There is debt, there is no adequate financing, there is an overload of teachers, there is a lack of resources,” denounced the PSOE spokesperson, who also sees a “vendetta” in all this. From there, he has targeted Ayuso: “It is a political persecution orchestrated by the right and the ultra-right to wear down the Government of Spain.”
Bernardo has brought up the 7,291 victims in nursing homes during the pandemic to attack Ayuso and the president has cut her short, for not being the object. “Mrs. Gómez, do you think they are seeking to know the truth about this invented case or are they seeking to harm the President of the Government by harming his wife?” he asked Begoña Gómez. At the same time, he has described the commission as “nonsense.” Of course, he has not even been given time to respond, and has continued without respite with his allegation against the PP. The president has called the issue back, for speaking again about the victims of the pandemic, as criticism directed at Ayuso.
«Do you think they are trying to lynch the president of the Government by trying to lynch his wife? But they’re not going to get it. “Women are very strong, you know that we are very strong, right?” asked the PSOE spokesperson rhetorically.
From Más Madrid, Manuela Bergerot has welcomed the wife of the President of the Government and has launched herself against Ayuso, because “she is not at all interested in the Madrid university.” He has regretted the “chiringuito” that the PP has turned the commission into, with “the excuse of investigating Mrs. Gómez’s professional life.” In his opinion, it is an “assault” by the PP on the Madrid institutions and the president of the commission has cut him off sharply. But Bergerot has continued to attack the PP for its “contempt for institutions.”
«The Complutense University dedicates 0.02 percent of the budget to the chairs that want to research with this commission. “Ayuso does not care about the financial crisis of Madrid universities,” he was saying when the president cut him off again to remind him that the format is “question-answer.”
“I ask you if you agree that the Madrid public university is underfunded, because that is what Ayuso does not care about,” continued the Más Madrid spokesperson, who has accused the PP of wanting to “censor” her intervention. “Do you think that the Government of the Community of Madrid is making public policies that demonstrate its commitment to the Complutense University of Madrid?” he asked, to “stick” to the “question-answer” format. And immediately afterwards, she once again brought up Ayuso’s “protocols of shame” in the pandemic, so the president stopped her from speaking and called her to the issue. And as he continued talking about the 7,291 victims in the residences, he was interrupted again.
“This commission’s mission is to shed light on the miseries of her administration, while Mrs. Ayuso enjoys a penthouse paid for by I don’t know who,” said Bergerot, which is why the president withdrew her voice.
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