Overview
- Feijóo shared a clip on X showing Transport Minister Óscar Puente brushing away a microphone and saying “Por favor, no me toques” as questioners closed in outside the Congress complex.
- The opposition leader called the behavior a lack of “educación y cortesía,” said a minister in his government would be dismissed for it, and declared that “en la España que viene” neither Pedro Sánchez nor Puente would hold office.
- Puente replied on X within an hour, calling Feijóo “miserable,” invoking Carlos Mazón and the Ventorro/Dana controversy with the phrase “mientras 229 personas se ahogaban,” and asserting he would not be “avasallado” by “tus fascistas a sueldo.”
- The footage circulated by EDA TV, the channel led by Javier Negre, helped elevate a brief street exchange into a national dispute over political decorum and media interactions.
- As of Oct. 8–9, coverage reports no formal sanctions or procedural consequences stemming from the exchange, which outlets frame as another episode in Spain’s polarized political climate.