Overview
- During the Senate control session on Oct. 21, Vice President Yolanda Díaz ended an answer by saying “queda Gobierno de corrupción para rato” before attempting to correct herself to “coalición.”
- Popular Party senators rose to laugh and applaud, prompting Senate president Pedro Rollán to demand decorum and resume the session.
- The PP quickly circulated a video of the slip, and opposition members repeated the phrase ironically in later questions to other ministers.
- Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska defended Díaz, saying she echoed the opposition’s label with irony and had simply misspoken.
- Díaz had been defending the coalition’s integrity and anti-corruption stance, and she has said she would leave the government if signs of illegal PSOE financing emerge.