Speeches

Mr President, Mr Zarzalejos, have you heard the prosecutor of the violence against women chamber say that 100% of the women who denounce in Spain would not do so again, that women do not trust Spanish justice precisely because justice does not trust them? Have you heard Judge David Maman, a gender-based violence judge who says many advantages are given to women for reporting? For example, legal aid. Do you know that only one in nine women in Spain complains and only a third of those complaints end in conviction? Do you really say that the problem is a law that defines consent and says that if there is no consent it is aggression or some judges who want to legislate against women?

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, imagine that tomorrow any of you will be robbed of a backpack. Can you imagine the police asking them why they didn't yell? Can you imagine a judge telling you the same thing you're exaggerating a little bit, even lying? That they are denouncing the same thing to seek fame or money, because they don't really have any wounds? Can you imagine debates on television asking why the next day you went to work as if nothing, why did you have a coffee with some friends? Can you imagine deep debates about why you smiled so much after the robbery? Can you imagine the whole country wondering if you hadn't been looking for that robbery? Because, after all, they had been partying all night with their thief, they had even gone voluntarily to the thief's house. They were friends of the thief. Can you imagine being asked why it took you so long to tell? Well, now put all those questions about women's bodies in sexual assault cases. It's strong, huh? Because this society treats women worse than things, worse than objects. And you know what happens if we don't scream? If we don't have any injuries? If we had gone up to our assailant's house? If it takes us a while to tell? If it's our husband? It happens that nothing happens. The only important thing is that, without consent, it is aggression, it is sexual violence. And today it is very good news that this Parliament is telling all the women of Europe that it is only yes.

Madam President, Commissioners, President-in-Office of the Council, Israel has announced the conquest of southern Lebanon and nothing is happening here. Its finance minister calls for the annexation of 10% of the territory after weeks of illegal bombing and nothing happens here. They have used white phosphorus, they have forcibly displaced 700,000 Lebanese, they have destroyed bridges, highways, and what do you do? What do you say, Commissioners? Gaza, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, energy prices skyrocketed. And you could stop this, but no, you are allowing illegal wars. Oil wars. Business wars. Much worse: they are accomplices. Because without their support, Trump and Netanyahu could not be sowing terror in the world. Why don't you guys stop kneeling? What are they doing? Why do they not stop being a group of bureaucrats unable to do something just, to give some solution, to meet the price of food, energy, to defend peace? Please, that Europe has in its hands to change course, that we must abandon the United States and Israel now. We must stop them now, because, if not, tomorrow will be late and our peoples will suffer.

Madam President, Commissioner, look, there are a lot of people in Spain who charge about €1 800 a month. Hopefully, you pay 1 000 € rent, being generous; make the purchase, 400 €; internet, electricity, water, gas, insurance, 250 €; gasoline 100 and going up. Do you know how much is left in the account? 100 €. And we still have to pay for the dining room and the children's extracurriculars, clothes... crossing our fingers so that there is no unforeseen event. Do you notice? The bills don't come out. People are working without really earning anything, because every euro they earn is to pay others. And where does that money end up? The European Commission does. Well, look, the big IBEX 35 companies have just set an all-time record for profits. Airbnb expects a double-digit profit increase by 2026, commissioner. Families do not find a home and, meanwhile, investment funds buy them for dozens without seeing them and, with the money they earn, invest in the arms industry to make war. We should be expelling all American vulture funds from this country and this Europe right now, Commissioner. That's an invasion. And do you know why this great robbery is possible without everyone ending up in jail? Because you, sheriff, are making it legal.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, how many of you would have gone to the Epstein Island parties if you had been invited with Trump and Elon Musk? The reality is that they would have gone and kept quiet, because their silence, the silence of this Parliament, gives them impunity. You, who treat these criminals as respectable people, make your crimes acceptable. Where is your outrage, the rule of law, the jail requests for those criminals? Whether the powerful are pedophiles or rapists is not a system error: is the heart of the system. And the superrich believe that everything belongs to them and, therefore, they use violence to dominate the world. They don't care whether they are finances, human beings to kidnap and deport, oil, the Palestinian people or girls to rape. To keep her party going, the world has to burn, and we're sick of hearing them call LGBTI people pedophiles, migrant criminals, or feminists in danger. Danger does not travel by boat; wears suit and tie and travels in jet private to the island of Epstein. The only dangerous minority are the rich you defend.

Mr President, Madam High Representative, today Trump has leaked a private WhatsApp in which the President of France calls him "friend" and asks him to do great things in Iran and Syria in exchange for Greenland. Do you still believe that by helping America commit its crimes we will be safe? No, you are not going to end up with Trump's sons doing business in Gaza or with oil from Venezuela or Iran. You, for Trump, are like Maria Corina Machado. How long are you going to let yourself be humiliated, High Representative? Bombing and sanctioning Iran is not going to bring freedom to women, it's going to bring oil to Trump. You have learned nothing from our history: Hitler annexed Austria and occupied the Sudetenland after supporting Franco in Spain. The European elites allowed everything thinking that this would not go any further and a year later the Second World War began. The policy of appeasement did not prevent war, it only made the monster bigger. Trump is the Hitler of the 21st century. We must isolate the United States and get out of NATO, not help it bomb Iran. Have dignity and look at Canada, which is signing a historic agreement with China. That's the way, not the vassalage to Trump.

Mr. President, look, Alvise, what you just did is violence. And if you dare to do this in the European Parliament in front of everyone, what you will not do at home when no one sees you, what you will not do at home when no one sees you. I have asked to answer because feminism means that when men exercise political violence or sexist violence against us, you no longer remain in impunity. And we are fed up with your violence, that you tell us again and again that you love us at home quiet, obedient; that if we get into politics you will crush us; If we make feminist laws to cut your impunity, you're going to make our lives impossible. Your impunity is over, your machismo is over, your racism is over. You want people to believe that feminism is a problem for women. Feminism is what protects us, and you, the sexists, those who put us in danger; But you don't fool anyone anymore. And above all: never again impunity in the face of the violence you carry out. Because the problem is not what you say to me, but the message you send to all women, and women have to confront you and make politics until in this country all women are free from sexist violence.

Mr. President, "What a good ass these pants make you!" Do you think any woman was surprised when she read what Pedro Sanchez's right hand was saying to the women on his team? How many of you, of those who are here, have not made such comments? How many workers are afraid to be alone with their boss? Think about it. How many of you think we're exaggerated? Does feminism bother you and your friends like President Sanchez? Does it bother you that we break their impunity? We are uncomfortable that you touch us without our consent, that you abuse your power with us and then call it erotic of power. These cases show that feminists are changing things despite their violent anti-feminist reaction. Ask yourself if you want to end sexist violence or just that there are no media scandals. Ask yourself why you think it's good news that women in your party or company don't talk. Ask yourself why they have been campaigning for years against the need for consent, saying that we denounce for fame or money, that we are destroying the lives of innocent men with false allegations; Saying that the problem is feminist laws, as the law of the only yes is yes, and not the aggressors or the macho judges. That women now break the silence and demand their rights is a victory for feminism, ladies and gentlemen.

Madam President, Mrs von der Leyen, absent: It doesn't stay one way. They already carry nineteen packages of sanctions against Russia, do you know how many they carry against Israel? Zero. Genocide continues, but you do not punish the genocidal, you support them. The United States illegally appropriates Gaza, bombs countries it wants, splits Ukraine with Putin, threatens Colombia and Mexico. How many sanctions has Europe put on the United States? Zero. Trump hijacks an oil tanker in international waters, bombs ships in the Caribbean, just imposed an illegal naval blockade against Venezuela. How many convictions? How many penalties? Zero. Trump has declared war on Europe, has acknowledged that he will manipulate the elections of European countries so that the extreme right takes power. Why do we have only one U.S. ambassador on European soil after this illegal threat to our sovereignty? But no, you do not sanction the United States, you obey it: They increase military spending because Trump orders it, they reimpose military service so that our sons and daughters are the infantry of America's wars. Their hypocrisy is killing Europe. Security is the welfare state. Guns and America are our worst enemy.

Madam President, Commissioner, Sudan is hell on Earth: the pools of blood left by the killings can be seen from space; 25 million people are severely food insecure; More than 12 million people are forced to flee in the world's largest displacement crisis, and the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war is unprecedented. Do you know who is behind the main genocidal force in Sudan? The United Arab Emirates. Because the UAE gets 98% of its gold from Sudan. And you know what's going on? That, if you follow the money trail – listen to the Honourable Members of the extreme right – those who finance and send weapons to the genocidal people in Sudan are the same as in Palestine: The United States and Europe are Israel's main partners and one of the main partners of the United Arab Emirates, with whom, as a prize, you want to sign the first major free trade agreement. Genocide means real estate business in Gaza. Genocide means gold, oil, rare earths in Sudan. Commissioner, the problem is you, who, if you wanted to, would act. They have tools. But they have turned genocide and colonialism into their business plan and world domination under Donald Trump. And so they're going to bury Europe.

Madam President, Commissioner, do you - you! - really intend to teach China lessons in values and democracy? You, who have put Europe at the feet of Donald Trump, a criminal who puts children he separates from their families in cages, who has unleashed a race war against thousands of workers. Trump, a condemned sexual aggressor who does business with the war in Ukraine, with the massacres in Sudan, on the ruins of the genocide in Gaza, who murders fishermen in the Caribbean, who maintains a criminal blockade against Cuba, which threatens Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia. The United States, which despite its immense wealth guarantees neither health, nor housing, nor decent jobs to its own compatriots, among whom poverty is growing more and more. Look, with China you're getting us into a war you can't win, Commissioner. Trump orders Europe to continue escalating the trade war with China and you obey, even if you lead us into the abyss. We depend on US liquefied gas, pay for its tariffs and billions of weapons mandated by NATO; We fueled the war in Ukraine so that it is the United States that gets the rare earths. China is now a world power because politics controls and plans the economy. China leads Asia, takes care of relations with Africa and Latin America. And, meanwhile, Europe is sinking its economy and welfare state to save the United States. The trade war with China, Commissioner, brings nothing good to Europe. Europe, in order to have autonomy and sovereignty, needs to approach China and not depend on the United States. And to understand it, you don't even have to be a Democrat: It is enough that you are pro-European. Because Trump is not going to save anyone. Neither do you.

Madam President, Madam President von der Leyen, it is tremendous that this lady cannot stand an entire debate in this House. They didn't talk about housing. It's people's main security issue, but they didn't talk. Imagine that you had to pay more than half of your salary to be able to pay a rent, to have a place to live, that you have to put the heating less hours, that it does not reach you to make the purchase, that it does not reach you to pay an extracurricular to your children, to pay the rent. Speculators in Europe are stealing the salary of people with abusive rents and, thus, buying houses without going to see them, in a matter of minutes. They ask the price and money they can earn by renting or selling them some time later and buy. And they also invest in big energy, in the media, in weapons. And that is why they are allowing this great theft to families, president, because their businesses and Trump's weapons are not paying them with their effort or with their work, they are paying them with the theft of the salary of the people who do work. What are houses for, ladies and gentlemen? Houses are for living. Well I do not know at what point it has begun to seem normal that you can do business with something that people need to live. And what's not normal shouldn't be legal.

Madam President, MEPs, who are here, how many of you have paid for sex? How many of you have shared a sexual image of a woman without making sure she agreed? How many have thought it's not so much for a friend to force a kiss on a night out? How many see it normal to start a sexual relationship with their wife while she sleeps? Once again, you come here, ladies and gentlemen, to tell us how we have to be good women. And I would like to ask you when are you going to worry about what you do yourself, what your friends, your parents, your siblings, your coworkers do? Why don't you wonder how to stop assaulting us instead of telling us what to do? For you, protecting women is never that we have more rights. It's never that we're freer. It's that we do what you want. And for this system women are pure merchandise, objects at their disposal. Take charge, ladies and gentlemen, of your part, which is to start treating us women as people.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, how can you be so cruel as to allow Carlos Mazón to attend the State funeral of the victims of the disaster? Can you imagine the pain of those families who lost a loved one, who have lost everything? Are you not even going to let them honor the memory of yours without having the person responsible for that murderous management in front of you? Haven't you made them suffer enough already? You are not looking for unity, ladies and gentlemen of the PP, you are looking for impunity. And all efforts should be devoted to repairing the victims and putting an end to the murderous policies of the Popular Party so that no one else will ever have to go through that anguish. To this day there are still compensations without arriving, buildings at risk of collapse, children studying in barracks, small companies that have not been able to reopen, emergency services dismantled. Measures to prevent further flooding and to curb property speculation in flood areas remain unapproved. No businessman, like the president of Mercadona, has paid for having sent his workers to work in full emergency. We do not forget, ladies and gentlemen, and we will not rest until justice is done. Let's take care of public services. Mazón, resign. And, above all, Mazon to prison.

Madam President, Council, President von der Leyen is gone. All in all, what if it is not this Parliament that is in charge here, but Donald Trump, right? Because Trump whistles and not one of you is missing to be humiliated, one by one. Israel is bombing Gaza again: not a single day has the cease-fire been fulfilled. Trump has boasted of having sent his best weapons to genocide and congratulated Netanyahu on having used them very well. The photo of European presidents shaking hands with Trump with a smile in Egypt will always haunt them. Why were they smiling? Why have people been led to believe that there would be peace? Did they think that with that Trump show people would stop mobilizing in Europe against genocide? Or do you also want to do business in Gaza? Mrs von der Leyen absent, as Europe did with the Nazis, the extermination against the Palestinian people can only end the unarmed genocidal and behind bars. Stop sending weapons to Israel now, break trade and diplomatic relations at once, that if any European should end up in prison he is not on the ships of the Flotilla, he is in this European Council, and it is because of his support for genocide.

Mr President, as my colleague said, this Declaration does not have a single reference to the right to abortion. Why? Anti-abortion lords call themselves pro-life, but they want women to risk their lives in clandestine abortions, they want to kick out migrants, they attack LGBTI people, they justify the extermination of Palestinian children... You are not defending life, you want to dominate women's lives and say that we are not prepared to decide, you have always said: We weren't prepared to open an account at the bank, to vote, to divorce... And they also want to decide on our bodies. Do you know what is life-threatening? That right now, in Andalusia, there are thousands of women who, two years after being checked, still do not know or have been informed that they could have breast cancer. They report that women have died – women have died – due to these delays in screening, and the responsibility lies with a People's Party government that puts life at risk by destroying public health. Commissioner, Andalusian women deserve your attention. Act so that they have urgent health and psychological care, so that victims are compensated and so that public health is well funded, because machismo kills and feminist policies save lives.

Madam President, Eduardo Galeano wrote that the metals snatched from the new colonial dominions of America stimulated European economic development and can even be said to have made it possible. Six centuries later, Europe still does not recognize that Latin America was not discovered, but invaded. Spain and other European powers committed enormous looting and genocide and must apologize and repair our brotherly peoples of America. Far from doing so, Europe's current relationship with Latin America remains a form of colonialism. The chains of exploitation, begun then, continue today in new forms: extractivism, debt, unequal trade agreements such as Mercosur, environmental devastation, racism or forced migration. European elites want the wealth of Latin America, but they close borders, deny rights to migrants and despise demands for social justice, food sovereignty or fair trade while promoting militarization disguised as security cooperation. And in addition, we continue to define our relationship with Latin America based on the interests of the United States, especially against China. But why do we do the dirty work of Donald Trump, responsible for coups d'état, unleashing an ethnic war with mass deportations, the illegal blockade of Cuba and attacks on the sovereignty of countries such as Colombia, Venezuela or Mexico under the excuse of drug trafficking? Aren't American pharmaceutical companies and the absence of public health primarily responsible for the fentanyl crisis? Six centuries later, Europe, submissive to Trump, warmongering, complicit in the genocide in Palestine, still believes itself to be the owner of what never belonged to it. I do not know when you will realize, Commissioner, that this is how you are digging the grave of this dying Europe. As Simon Rodriguez said, either we invent or we err.

Mr. President, Madam Vice President, how was your day? What is more important on the agenda than breaking relations with the terrorist state of Israel? The Israeli army raids and hijacks European ships in international waters and nothing happens here. What would have happened if it was Russia that carried out this direct attack against NATO countries? And if they do this to Europe with impunity, what do they not do to the Palestinians? Preventing food and medicine from entering Gaza is state terrorism. 680,000 killed, children burned alive, Gaza destroyed by European bombs... and nothing happens here. More than 10,000 Palestinian prisoners subjected to simulated drowning, dog attacks, deprivation of food, sleep and water, sexual violence... and nothing happens here. What Trump and Netanyahu have put forward is a colonization and business plan to own Palestine, and it is an illegal plan because it does not recognize Palestinians' rights to self-determination and return to land stolen by Israel. They are already breaking relations with Israel – military, economic, commercial. Reject Trump's illegal plan. Comply with international legality, which you are going to go down in history as accomplices of a genocide, and that makes you criminals, Vice President.