The Podemos candidate for the general elections of 29 November, Irene Montero, has denounced this Sunday 15 that Andalusia suffers from a “premeditated mistreatment” that “puts women’s lives at risk with screenings,” while also reproaching that the Andalusian economy “is at the service of tourism.” Her remarks were made at a campaign rally in the capital of Seville.
In her address, the aspiring President of the Government has attacked healthcare management by stating that “when women denounce it, they threaten them instead of putting in screenings for all in time, so that no woman sees her life in danger because they don’t give her a medical test.” Montero has been accompanied by the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, the top candidate for Seville, Mar Cambrollé, and the top candidate for Cádiz, Julio de la Torre.
The Podemos leader has linked these criticisms to the economic and labor situation in the region, emphasizing “low wages” and that “in a land like Andalusia, one of the most offered for vacations and tourism throughout the world, almost half of Andalusians can’t go on vacation.” In addition, she has criticized that “we are allowing there to be tourist apartments that drive people out of the cities.”
Montero has mocked the free-market discourse of right-wing formations and has posed a rhetorical question: “Why doesn’t Juanma Moreno go live in a hole?” After that, she has defended, line by line, the need to increase the minimum wage. At this point, she has asked: “Why don’t they go pick the strawberry in Huelva or in Almería, to break their backs for much less than 1,200 euros?”
With reference to Vox, the candidate has argued that this party shows that “they want to keep having slaves” and “Andalusians who do their business for them.” According to Montero, “that is their national priority: to have slaves. And that is where they find the Vox señoritos, exploiting workers, mistreating people under conditions of slavery. That’s why they always try to get us to look at the wrong side.”