“And what the hell do you care?”

It was one of the most anticipated moments of the afternoon: Ana Rosa Quintana has connected with Risto Mejide to respond to Irene Montero, a talk show host everything is a liewho this Wednesday attacked her live for her real estate businesses. The presenter thanked her partner for his support in the face of the former minister’s attacks (“you don’t have to defend me at all because I’m already defending myself, but I appreciate it”) and conveyed a complaint to him: “I don’t know the obsession that this lady has with me…”.

The presenter has taken advantage of the response time to respond to all of Montero’s accusations and has been blunt: “I am not going to get into controversy with this lady. It has been many years, it has been many times, in your program two or three, in the tribune of the Congress of Deputies… Let’s see. This lady hates businessmen, the company… I have a company, yes… Real estate, rentals, not only tourism, but also sales. What’s more, I’m now going to do a new project in Madrid that I’m studying about ‘coworking’. I have a production company and other things… And do you know why I have these things? Because I have earned it, like any businessman in this country, that we pay taxes.”

Visibly upset, Ana Rosa continued: “This is not that I have some apartments that I have bought and even if I had bought them, I would have bought them with my money and with the banks. It is that I am a shareholder in a company that is dedicated to that.” sector, as I dedicate myself to the production sector and others that I am not even going to tell about.

The presenter regrets the fixation that Irene Montero seems to have against her and has denounced that her attacks come from afar: “Who is this lady? Why does she take advantage, because she has a capacity, to say whatever she wants on a prime-time program? We are not on equal terms. Like this lady and others from her party who turn me on in the headquarters of the Congress of Deputies, where I cannot reply.” He has also assured that the line of Montero and company is to relentlessly attack businessmen: “Of What are we talking about, what do we want? that there are no businessmen? By the way, eighty percent of this country’s income and wealth comes from businessmen and 80 percent of workers are hired by businessmen. Man, if she prefers Venezuela or Cuba for her… Not for me.”

“I deal with squatting”

Risto listened attentively and gave her a reply to focus the conversation: “Irene Montero’s argument is that with your business you legitimized the activity of Dani, Desokupa and similar companies.” Ana Rosa launched herself: “I deal with squatting like I dealt with evictions years ago, I deal with current affairs. It is true that there are many people who have houses, who with their lifelong work have bought a small apartment to rent and supplement their pension and they do not have it on the market due to occupancy and I know people who have properties, a flat or two, who are not renting them out of fear of ‘squatting’ and “This lady is responsible.”

And he insisted: “And there are some of us who generate wealth and employment. I, specifically, more than 500 employees who depend on this lady and her companies and there are those who spend the money, for example 200 thousand euros, on an APP that they have had to close and 160 thousand to promote it… There are those of us who generate jobs and others who spend them. And I respect that this lady is an MEP because I am a democrat, if there is someone who has voted for her, my respects, but she must also respect others and communicators.”

Risto conveyed all his support: “As a businessman, I will tell you one more thing, being a businessman is not the panacea, because you receive from all sides. Anyone who makes money is bad by nature and surely that has to do with the news of people It turns out that he has been involved in scams. But that is the minority, the majority of businessmen are honest people, program by program you make money and, as you say, the dishonor is not in what you spend the money but in how you spend it. I want to. Now I am going to speak as a voter. It seems unacceptable to me that there are political groups that name people and defame someone they don’t like. , to important businessmen in this country… In sin they carry penance, look where they are and where they are going to be.”

Ana Rosa settled the discussion: “Absolute irrelevance. That’s why I didn’t bother much to answer, but I owed it to you. In any case, Everything I have done in my life, I have done by myself. You know where I come from, houses of the housing ministry of the town of Almendrales de Usera… “I have not inherited anything, there are others who have inherited and do not tell what.”referring to the inheritance that Irene Montero received after the death of her father and with which she bought, in part, her chalet in Galapagar. “Those of us who have legal companies pay taxes and generate jobs. I don’t know what this lady means. There are many ways to spend money, you can create it by creating companies or living in abundance. If I have 500 employees, what the hell does it matter to you?”