The Podemos candidate for the general elections, Irene Montero, has lashed out at the decision to invite the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, to the program 'La Revuelta', considering that the underlying aim is to "feed the monster" with a view to the PSOE increasing its support at the polls on 29N.
"The same people who are saying that Abascal should be taken on 'prime time' on public television to normalize and whitewash fascism are giving blows to the teachers of public education who are on strike. So, let’s not then put our hands to our heads later," she added after holding a meeting with environmental organizations and with the coordinator of Alianza Verde, Juantxo López de Uralde.
The leader of the 'purple' formation has denounced that this presence in prime time of Abascal ends up legitimizing his "negationist discourse of sexist and racist violence", something that, in her view, should not be tolerated in Spanish society.
At the same time, she stressed that she does not agree with loading the responsibility for the result of the interview onto the comedian David Broncano, host of 'La Revuelta', despite the fact that this Monday "he didn't do it well."
"Here the issue and the problem is who decides that the monster has to be fed, because if the monster grows, they think that makes the votes for the PSOE grow," she concluded.
Criticism of the strategy of giving Vox 'room'
HE WAS ALLOWED TO BRING HIS OWN AUDIENCE
Subsequently, in a video circulated on social media, she reiterated her accusation, emphasizing that the real problem is to offer Vox 'room' with the intention of provoking fear and that the PSOE can appeal to the useful vote.
"For real, are we going to blame Broncano for yesterday’s interview Even though we didn’t like how he did it, whatever. Here the problem is who decides to make the monster grow, because if the monster grows, fear grows and they think that’s how the PSOE votes grow. Small detail, which is also that Vox votes grow, by the way," she said.
Along these lines, she censured that space was given to Abascal’s "machist remarks and racist remarks" and that, in addition, he was allowed to attend the program with "his own audience so that he gets a 'president' chant", she concluded.