Ana Rosa responds to Ione Belarra, who calls her “corrupt” and “liar”: “Get your mud machine out of our Congress”

Angry, indignant and blunt. This is how the Mediaset afternoon presenter has shown herself in response to the latest request from Ione Herb in Congress. In the last plenary session, the general secretary of Podemos accused several journalists with names and surnames of “corrupt and liars”qualifications that President Armengol did not withdraw from the minutes despite requests from the PP bench. “Like my colleagues, 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”has said Ana Rosa Quintana.

The journalist began her Wednesday program by explaining to the audience what happened: “Former Minister Ione Belarra has taken the mud machine to the headquarters of popular sovereignty from where she has insulted several journalists by calling us corrupt and liars. Later, a deputy of the PP has asked that the insults be removed from the minutes, but the president of Congress has said that only the insults are removed from the minutes, that is, corrupt and liar is not an insult if it is directed at journalists, but it is if it is directed to the government. Yesterday Patxi López asked for it and Francina Armengol did so, pointing out that decorum is obligatory in the chamber.”

Ana Rosa has been outraged by what happened: “It cannot be that a representative of Congress goes against the foundations of democracy, which is based on the institutions that represent it. It is clear that for Armengol, the press is not an democratic institution and assumes that journalists who exercise freedom of expression must be short-circuited by citing their names and surnames, while Sánchez remains silent, encouraging accusations that he does not want for his own people. And he has stood up for all of his colleagues: “Like my colleagues, 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.”

The communicator has sent several puns to the government of Pedro Sánchez: “Umberto Echo said that the mud machine is set in motion when to delegitimize someone it is enough to say that they have done something to create suspicion. From the tribune of Congress they accuse us of journalists from lying, the government does not lie, it changes its mind. Belarra demands a transparency law that has already existed for eleven years, the transparency portal has reprimanded the government for hiding data of public interest.” And finally, she has launched a forceful request: “Ladies and gentlemen, remove your mud machine from our congress and take your transparency machine to the workshop.”