The Plenary Session of the Congress of Deputies held this Wednesday, May 22, has left many headlines and has given rise to much talk in numerous media outlets. One of the most commented interventions during these last hours was that of the general secretary of Podemos, Iona Belarre, who from the speakers’ gallery of Congress has attacked several journalists on the national scene.
The former minister proposed a law that “obliges that there be transparency in the economic and political interests behind the lies that Ana Rosa Quintana, Pablo Motos or Susanna Griso tell every day.” ”We want to know the economic interests behind those journalists who lie every day from large television sets about political forces, including mine. That also includes Mr. Antonio García Ferreras,” Belarre declared.
The words of the general secretary of Podemos have not gone unnoticed by the Telecinco presenter, who began this Wednesday’s program by responding bluntly to the former minister’s accusations.
”Former minister Ione Belarra has taken the mud machine to the headquarters of popular sovereignty from where she has insulted several journalists, calling us corrupt and liars. Subsequently, a PP deputy has asked that the insult be removed from the minutes, but the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, has said that only insults are removed from the minutes, that is, the word corrupt or liar is not an insult if it is directed at journalists, but it is an insult when it is directed at the government environment,” he began by saying.
The Mediaset presenter recalled during her speech that Patxi López asked this past Tuesday for another insult to be removed from the minutes and that the president of Congress agreed without problem. ”Noting that decorum is mandatory in the chamber because it is the seat of national sovereignty. It cannot be that a representative of Congress goes against the foundations of democracy that is based on the institutions that represent it. It is clear that for Armengol the press is not a democratic institution and he assumes that journalists who practice freedom of expression must be tied down, citing their names and surnames,’ she said.
In addition, the journalist also dedicated a word to the President of the Government. ”While Sánchez remains silent, giving rise to the accusation that he does not want for his people,” she assured. ”I consider myself an honest professional and neither Ferreras, nor Griso, nor Motos nor I should be when they do not remove it from the minutes (…) From the tribune of Congress they accuse us journalists of lying, the government does not lie, changes his mind and Belarra asks for a transparency law that has already existed for 11 years. Ladies and gentlemen, take your mud machine out of Congress and take your transparency machine to the workshop,’ she concluded.
