The differences shown by Juan Carlos Monedero with the direction of Podemos have ended up costing him his job at Canal Red, the media outlet directed by Pablo Iglesias. A dismissal that the co-founder of Podemos has explained by arguing that “those responsible for the Channel want to reinforce their ideological line and it is evident that my disobedient Lennon glasses blur that objective.”
In a message on the social network close ranks before the siege”. Strategy that the former presenter says he does not share although he remains convinced “of unity -without naiveties-.”
Monedero, however, has prioritized the relationship that unites him with Iglesias: “Today, and beyond disagreements, I want to give priority to friendship with someone whom I have known since his student days, whom I admire and whom I love. Friendship , like kindness and generosity, have these things,” he noted.
It is worth remembering that the political scientist had criticized the politics of the party he founded in recent weeks with statements that publicly confirmed the tension that is marking day-to-day life within Podemos. In an interview on the program ‘La Cafetera’, on Radiocable, Monedero admitted feeling deceived: “Canal Red is a very powerful organization and that is not good for either Canal Red or Podemos. It is not good for Canal Red because it greatly limits its influence and it is not good for Podemos because it has not completely freed itself from that forceful opinion of the convinced that it always expresses.
Equally notable is the fact that Monedero decided to support the Podemos coalition with Sumar for the elections in Galicia, outlining a “yes to the trap offer” in the face of the refusal of Iglesias, who even asked the militancy to reverse the pact by that the respective autonomous leaders of both parties had arrived.
Monedero’s is the second dismissal of the week on Canal Red after the television directed by Pablo Iglesias removed Sergio Gregori from the program ‘El Tablero’, a journalist who had been working until this Monday as director and presenter of the space that is broadcast. from Monday to Friday in the mornings.
Gregori’s last words before his sudden dismissal were explicit: “Some of us co-founded Canal Red believing that breaking the media power bloc would be above the partisan struggle in the irrelevance of a marginal political space. Let no one be confused: we are priceless They don’t buy us with a deputy’s certificate or with a set.
