7 May, 2018 @ 20:06
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‘F**K YOU’: Spain’s Mariano Rajoy’s press secretary caught on tape insulting protesting pensioners

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UNDER FIRE: Carmen Martinez Castro
UNDER FIRE: Carmen Martinez Castro

MARIANO Rajoy’s press secretary has been caught saying how she would like to tell protesting pensioners ‘f**k you’.

Carmen Martinez Castro is facing calls to resign after her lewd comments were picked up by a microphone.

She told a party aide: “How I would like to show them the finger and say f*** you.”

Prime minister Rajoy had been attending a meeting in Alicante on Saturday at which pensioners were protesting.

Pensioners have staged a series of large demonstrations across Spain in recent weeks demanding a rise in state payments.

José Luís Ábalos, a Socialist MP, said her comments ‘showed a lack of respect to pensioners’.

Castro said she had been joking.

“The best I can do is not explain because that makes no sense but to apologise,” she said during a radio interview.

Castro has been Rajoy’s communications and PR guru since 2011.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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