Tension between Pablo Motos and Pedro Sánchez: “If we can make the short answers, we will advance further”

The President of the Government continues with his television tour in the middle of the electoral campaign and this Tuesday he played the anthillon Antena 3. He began by addressing Paul Motorcycles but this one stopped him: “Well, let’s see if we call each other on the first name…”. The tension between Pedro Sanchez and the presenter has been the keynote of the meeting and the exchange of pullitas, continuous.

The leader of the PSOE began by assuring that he really wanted to visit the program: “Well, it has taken you seven years to come,” Motos responded, putting him in the first bind: “You said that we would see insults from television programs without the right to reply. What program were you referring to? Because in maximum audience we are Survivors and we “, Pablo has launched. “I am not going to deliberately name it,” replied the politician.

The elections

The first question was the date of the elections and Sánchez took advantage of it to launch a hard attack against Juan del Valone of the commentators of the anthill: “Those who are criticizing me for calling the elections on July 23 would have done so if I called them in September, because the terrible seven-headed monster that I am, does everything wrong. There are opinions and there are facts, there are programs that have been accused of fraud for putting the elections on July 23 to control the vote, it is a very serious accusation”. But Sánchez threw the stone and hid his hand: “I’m not saying it because of his program.” “Yes, yes, that’s what Juan del Val said here,” answered Pablo.

Because @sanchezcastejon Did you call elections on 23J being the vacation week of many Spaniards? #PedroSánchezEH pic.twitter.com/eptF7fHCKi

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The media

Sánchez accused the media of partisanship and Motos reminded him: “There are also media that defend you, La Ser, El País, TVE…”. “That’s what you say,” the guest answered annoyed. “A bubble called ‘Sanchismo’ has inflated, which is a seven-headed monster that does everything wrong and it has been done so as not to talk about all the good we’ve done over the years.” And he recited the list of objectives achieved by his Government: “Man, it would only be necessary that they had not done anything,” said Motos, who took the opportunity to throw another dart: “If we make the answers shorter, we will advance further.”

Catalonia

On the ‘lies’ of his Government in relation to the promises of the previous campaign, Sánchez has argued: “What is a lie? If there are people who think that I take them for fools, I am sorry. Rectify at a time like the present , with the pandemic, the eruption of a volcano, a war at the gates of Europe… it is in the DNA of a politician. I have made some decisions different from the ones I said but the result is greater peace of mind, for example, in the territorial conflict in Catalonia”. About the suppression of the crime of Sedition? “The mistake was Rajoy’s, for prosecuting a political conflict. That should never have been done. In five years of government, we have not had a single referendum.”

Lying, changing opinions or rectifying #PedroSánchezEH pic.twitter.com/BMErxJRvZo

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Feminism

Another of the tricky issues of the night and that has generated a certain scuffle between the two has been the Law of only Yes is Yes, which has already benefited more than a thousand sexual offenders. “I have apologized to the victims and we have solved it,” Sánchez defended himself. “But six months later, that’s a long time,” said Pablo. “We should have done it sooner, without a doubt. There were unwanted effects.”

On LGTBI rights, Sánchez has harshly criticized Vox: “But where do they come from?” And Motos threw the dart at him: “When you started there was no deputy, now there are 51. They say that Rajoy was a machine for making pro-independence supporters and you were followers of Vox.” The reply: “Of course, it will also be my fault.”

The responsibility of @sanchezcastejon with the Law of ‘only yes is yes’ and gender violence #PedroSánchezEH pic.twitter.com/GPTN95vXYY

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