Leftist TV channel can’t deal with rise of the right and starts hunting down VOX voters in Spain
By BEN PERCHIRON
VoiceOfEurope.com
11 December 2018
The right-wing VOX Party, which just last week had a historic election result in Spain’s most socialist region, Andalusia, is considering whether to press charges against leftist TV Channel La Sexta, which was created in 2005 under socialist President Zapatero.
The problem started when during a regular program a La Sexta channel reporter was sent to search out who were the 44 VOX voters in a small and famously far left small town near Seville called Marinaleda, whose mayor, José Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, has been caught stealing from supermarkets to “distribute to the poor”.
La Sexta has been particularly aggressive in the coverage of VOX, specially since as a news channel, it was banned by VOX’s leader, Santiago Abascal, from covering celebrations after last week’s elections.
Mr Abascal’s Party has stated that the hunting down of its voters in Marinaleda is “repugnant” and “far exceeds all democratic limits” of decency.
The entire spectrum of media and political forces on the left are out en masse to denigrate and tarnish VOX’s name and policies, showing just how scared they are of the right wing populist wave having finally reached Spain’s shores.
This is highlighted this week by – ironically – a new La Sexta national voting intention poll which shows VOX climbing to over 7% nationwide, and the leftist coalition losing power to a centre-right coalition (which would include PP, Ciudadanos and VOX).
And we all know how unbiased leftist polls are – which is good news for VOX, and good news for Spain.
