The phrase ‘That I vote for you Txapote’ has become one of the main political memes in recent months. Both the right and the extreme right have used it to attack the current Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, referring to an alleged sympathy with the Basque nationalist parties.
This slogan of dubious taste, was cast again yesterday on television. It was during the news on the French channel France 24. While the journalist Elise Gazengel was trying to report live on the situation at the headquarters of the Popular Party, a young militant from the party who had come to the headquarters on Calle Génova to follow the results, tried to sneak in on several occasions to say the phrase “That I vote for you Txapote”.
The same journalist has been in charge of denouncing the situation on her Twitter account. Yesterday, Gazengel shared a photo of the young man in question explaining what had happened: “In the middle of the live broadcast, this young PP militant did not stop rebuking us yelling ‘Let me vote for you Txapote’ and forced us to cut the connection since he was not leaving despite the fact that another colleague was trying to help us…”, he recounted.
A day later, the journalist has decided to publish the video of the moment to denounce the harassment suffered. “I have hesitated to publish the file taken from last night’s live… but I think he should feel the shame”, she pointed out in the message that accompanies the audiovisual document.
In the video we see how the young man approaches the reporter without permission and does not stop reciting the phrase into the microphone. In addition, the journalist tries to do everything possible to escape from the PP militant, but he is very insistent and does not stop persecuting her.
In recent weeks, several associations of victims of terrorism such as Covite and the Fernando Buesa Blanco Foundation, and some twenty ETA victims have spoken out against this slogan, assuring that it is trivializing terrorism.
