The Podemos candidate for the general elections, Irene Montero, has denounced the “police violence” and the “repression” which, she claims, would be being carried out against the information pickets during the first hours of the general strike called for this Wednesday, 11 November.
Montero has stressed that “the strike and the pickets are rights”. “Police violence puts workers who exercise those rights in danger. Enough with repression,” she said in a message published on the social network 'X', distributed by Europa Press.
Along the same lines, Podemos’ secretary general, Ione Belarra, has criticized the “violent and disproportionate police operation” deployed at the depots of the Empresa Municipal de Transportes (EMT) in Madrid “with charges and gas to prevent the pickets of the general strike”. “Shame!”, she also wrote on social media.
Both Irene Montero, the head of the Podemos list for the elections of 29N, and the leader of the purple party, Ione Belarra, moved at first thing in the morning to the Centro de Operaciones de Entrevías of the EMT to take part in one of the pickets organized on the occasion of the general stoppage.