Speeches

Madam President, I would like to address the previous rapporteur on the basis of Rule 10(4) of the Rules of Procedure, on offensive comments, regarding the consideration of an illegal person, because I believe that offensive and hateful comments are already around, and therefore I want to submit it for your consideration, because they are racist debates. This is a racist consideration.

Mr President, 'they invade us', 'they come without papers and commit crimes', 'they take advantage of aid', 'we cannot be the shelter of the world', 'they do not integrate; to adapt", "create their ghettos and no longer look like Spain", "this did not happen before". How many hoaxes? No, gentlemen of the extreme right and the right, the enemy does not come in a boat; The enemy is the one who exploits, the one who protects these racist, xenophobic and hate speeches that we have just heard today. The truth is, how well they mimic Trump's expulsion policies! Regularization is a matter of humanity and dignity and rights. It is good for you to take care of your children and granddaughters, your elders, to clean your houses, to be exploited by your business friends, but then you do not want the same rights. Isn't that racism? Like you: racists, which is what they are. In my country, Galiza, we are daughters of immigration, Latin America and Europe. Therefore, we are a land of welcome and we want regularization, because we have a memory and we know well the benefit of welcoming people who are looking for a home and who are looking for life. And I end, of course, with a speech by Bad Bunny: "the only thing more powerful than hatred is love" - the one you don't have for humanity. Of course I do!

Mr President, I give a big greeting to the Kurdish representatives who are there. The Kurds can no longer wait. Turkey and Syria massacre Kurds in Kobane. And what is the European Union's response? Nothing. When the members were terrified of the cruelty and fury of the Islamic State, who stood to fight it? The Kurds. The Kurds against Daesh. Syria has become a battleground for various outside powers, to exploit its resources at the expense of its people. We demand accountability, starting with Turkey. We demand targeted sanctions against individuals and entities, as well as expanded conditionality of support, and also urgent and immediate humanitarian corridors for besieged areas, and the lifting of siege conditions in Rojava. We also demand recognition and support for structures and organizations that have promoted women's rights and multi-ethnic coexistence, which have promoted systems of democratic autonomy in Rojava. We want and continue to stand up for a pluralistic Syria that recognizes the rights of the Kurdish people, the rights of the autonomous democratic region of Rojava.

Mr. President, Trump, the imperialist, wants to get his hands on Cuba and he does so with economic asphyxiation. The total cut-off of the fuel supply imposed by the United States on Cuba is a cruel and inhuman measure that aggravates the suffering of the people subjected to more than six decades of blockade. Its consequences impact daily on life, on teachers who cannot reach schools, on health personnel with difficulties in accessing hospitals, on shortages of food and medicines, on prolonged power outages that paralyze entire areas and neighborhoods for more than 24 hours. We are facing a scenario with real risk of humanitarian crisis. Believe me, a real risk of humanitarian crisis that threatens girls, boys, the elderly and other vulnerable groups, all victims of President Trump's criminal policy of aggression. And in the face of this escalation, I wonder: What will the European Union do? That is why I call on the European Union to urgently condemn this aggression by President Trump, this aggression and lack of humanity. Faced with this double standard that ends life, with humanity, there will be international solidarity and fraternity.

Madam President, as an observer of the European Parliament in the elections in Honduras, I would like to confirm that on election day the people of Honduras came out freely and massively to vote, but the pre- and post-election situation has been full of flaws, alerts, legal obstacles, lack of transparency and, above all, political polarisation. On the data transmission system, what to say?, we were able to check its defects live: the duration of the recount for more than one month and that 30 000 votes have not been counted. But above all, we saw live, and also through the networks, the interference in the process by President Trump by supporting the candidate Papi to the Order - at the order of his master - and by threatening to cut off funding if the Honduran people did not vote for his chosen one. On top of this, Trump releases the former president sentenced to forty-five years - nothing more and nothing less - for drug trafficking, in whose mandate peasants, environmental defenders, such as Berta Cáceres, and human rights journalists were murdered with impunity. Juan Orlando Hernández, tried and extradited to the United States for drug trafficking, is now released by Trump just in the election campaign. Isn't that interference? Our Group is very concerned about the interventionist interference of the President of the United States in the political and electoral processes in Latin America, including unilateral interventions, which weakens international law and peace and puts democratic stability and, of course, international stability at risk.

Madam President, the illegal and illegitimate military interference and aggression against Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president is a very serious attack on international law and the sovereignty of the peoples. We express our firm condemnation of imperialist interventionism and Trump's aggression, and also our solidarity always with the Venezuelan people. It is the law of the jungle, the Monroe Doctrine updated to a Condor 3.0 Plan to install the hegemonic system of domination with wars, looting, blockades, false news and military aggressions, as the Caribbean country has suffered. And attention: alert against threats to Colombia, Mexico, Cuba and Greenland. Simon Bolivar already said it: America wants to plunge us into misery in the name of freedom, the freedom to own oil and natural resources. And what has the European Union done?: a simple statement that demonstrates servility to the United States, the same United States that has displaced the far-right Corina Machado, which is no longer useful for imperialist strategy, the same one that disparages the Nobel Peace Prize and intends to give it to Trump. What a humiliation for the Spanish PP and for Vox. The European Union should have supported international law and condemned illegitimate and illegal aggression. But what are we going to expect if he hasn't condemned the genocide in Gaza in two years?

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen of the PP and the PSOE, remove the accusers from your parties and do not come and give lessons in feminism, because you have a lot of dirty laundry to wash. We have to be on the side of women, both if the allegations refer to the president of the Diputación de Lugo, as to the Fisheries Counsellor of the Xunta of Galicia — that the PP government kept him in office for four months, concealing the complaint against him for sexual assault. Manda (inaudible word) He resigned with applause. This complaint, of course, only went on public television in my country. Besides, gentlemen of the People's Party, do you remember Nevenka Fernández? He is still waiting for a public apology from his party for the sexual and labor harassment he suffered 25 years ago. And to PSOE, we tell you that inaction is never a good decision. Right now, we advocate zero tolerance for macho violence. Come from wherever you come from and affect whomever you affect. Cases of sexist violence cannot go unpunished and we must always be on the side of women. We're sick of it. Feminism is more necessary than ever.

Mr. President, Israel continues to violate the ceasefire in Gaza, the illegal occupation and the apartheid It allows illegal settlements in the West Bank to become more and more numerous. Just look at Oxfam's recent report, which says the number of settlements is high and clear. But, in addition, I ask the Commissioner: Can the Commission confirm to me, after the question I asked in May, whether the European Union is trading in agricultural products coming from illegal settlements? And I want to know because I am going to go all the way on this issue and I hope my colleagues will too, because if we are trading in products from illegal settlements we are complicit in genocide and we are complicit in apartheid and we are also complicit in occupation. The obligation to prevent genocide has not stopped, Commissioner and also Mrs von der Leyen. What have we done, what has the European Union done when Francesca Albanese's report Genocide in Gaza, a collective crime Does it say that relations with Israel should be suspended? The European Union is the largest trading partner and has to suspend the Association Agreement.

Mr President, fellow MEPs, if you think you are going to stop abortion with your vote, you are wrong. Abortion will happen with or without your permission. Women will keep needing abortions, so women will keep having abortions. What we are deciding on is whether these women can have the choice and chance for a safe and affordable abortion. The minimum is to make sure that an unwanted pregnancy is not a life threat for women in Europe. Quoting Nika Kovač, 'Women are being killed in hospitals because of abortion bans in Europe.' She is there. Approving this initiative, 'My voice, my choice', is essential to make abortions accessible for the women who choose to have them. Today, more than 20 million women around Europe do not have access to safe abortion. Tomorrow, we have the opportunity to make history and protect women. This is about guaranteeing basic health and safety conditions. We need to be united in this decision. We can save lives. We need to stand up for our women. Abortion is a basic right.

Madam President, Commissioner, in my country, Galicia, the automotive industry is of great importance, since the Stellantis factory in Vigo, my city, is one of the industrial engines of the Galician economy and industry. In fact, Stellantis itself obtained benefits of EUR 718.9 million in 2024, while, on the other hand, the policy of outsourcing component production, and relocating, is leading to the closure of Galician companies. The crisis in the sector is a reality. Redundancies have occurred in recent months in the Centro Tecnológico de Automoción de Galicia itself and in other companies. Specifically, in the last 12 months, the Galician car industry has lost 5% of jobs and 1 400 people have been laid off, as the Galician trade union of the IGC says. In this context, it is essential that the process of electrification of the automotive sector is accompanied by a specific plan that takes into account the social impact of decisions.