“I think you should resign, you would be doing society a service,” added
another. “What’s more, you would earn more in a private company.”

On Sunday evening the MP, who was also criticised by colleagues in the ruling
Popular Party, apologised on Cadena Ser radio, saying he had only been
speaking “figuratively”.

“I apologise to all who may have felt offended, I know perfectly well that
there are people with 400 or 500 euros and many people with nothing, who are
really suffering.”

In July, another Popular Party MP, Andrea Fabra, apologised for using an
expletive meaning “screw them” in parliament when Prime Minister Mariano
Rajoy announced a reduction in unemployment benefits.

Fabra insisted she was speaking of the opposition Socialist Party but her
comment was widely seen as a criticism of the unemployed, and it became a
slogan brandished in street protests.

Source: AFP

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