Ana Vázquez insults Congress President Francina Armengol

Ana Vázquez, the People's Party (PP) spokesperson for the Interior Ministry in the Spanish Congress, used an insult against the President of the Congress, Francina Armengol, during a pre-campaign visit to the Carolinas neighborhood in Alicante.

During a conversation with local residents, Vázquez claimed that Armengol is “obsessed” with her and called her a “gilipollas” (an insult in Spanish). The remarks follow a previous incident on September 23, when Vázquez was expelled from a plenary session by order of Armengol after displaying pepper spray in the Congress.

Vázquez defended her actions to the neighbors, stating that the spray only reaches three meters and would not have reached a distance of one hundred meters. She also suggested that the controversy was manufactured due to her televised criticisms of left-wing politics.