This Wednesday night, Pepa Millán, spokesperson for the Congress of Representatives of Vox, was interviewed by Xabier Fortes on the program ‘Night in 24 Hours’, presented on RTVE’s 24-hour channel. The interview had a tense tone throughout the night, but it highlighted a moment when journalist Esther Palomera painted the far-right guest for the false information he defended.
A Vox spokesperson assured that Vox was responding to questions sent to it by the media regarding an investigative article into the financing of the far-right party.: “Although we had no obligation, we did so because we had nothing to hide, as we had no obligation to respond in writing to what seemed more like a police questionnaire, and the questions that that newspaper asked were answered one by one,” said Pepa Millán.
In fact, a Vox spokesperson showed a document that included what they were supposedly responding to, and that enabled the article to be published that same morning without any of the words they were responding to appearing.
The journalist Esther Palomera, who was present at the table during the interview, responded by assuring Pepa Millán that she was lying: “The newspaper is not an email. It is an internal document that Vox created for itself. (…) Here (the article shown by Pepa Millán) it says that a journalist went to Disenso to ask some questions and was told that this should be the answer. This second email was never sent. Ms. Millán, you lied, you did not send any response.”
Far from correcting the situation, the Vox spokesperson contradicted himself without solving what had happened, and Fortes tried to shut down the discussion despite Millán’s insistence: “When people talk about us, they call us racists and fascists.” Later, The program host stopped him by saying that no public television editor had ever called any Vox leader a “fascist,” to which Millán replied that he had not used the word “fascist,” which he had mentioned a few seconds earlier..
Source: Informacion
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