MEP and former Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, officially launches her bid for La Moncloa by announcing that she will do so by contesting universal primaries, that is, “open to anyone who wants to run” and in which anyone who wishes can participate as a voter.
With a very emotional speech in which she included all the slogans typical of her party, Montero has advocated for making the “super-rich” and the “speculators” “return what they have stolen” and has called for a minimum wage of 1,800 euros, a 30-hour workweek, lowering energy prices, capping food prices, boosting public services and reconciliation policies, and not spending “one euro more on weapons.”
Montero insisted that “the system has to change and stop going against the people.” “That is why,” she said, “I am going to run in the next general elections.” “I want to be a candidate with open primaries for everyone, in which the whole team can be chosen by anyone who wants to participate and in which anyone who wants to run can be elected.”
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Montero did not hesitate to attack businessman Juan Roig, owner of Mercadona; the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso; the Vox leader, Santiago Abascal; the Banco de Santander; and Repsol, whom she accused of being an example of the “terrifying” system we live in and whose “rules,” she said, “are a robbery.”
Alongside her, the secretary general of Podemos, Ione Belarra, who will run for the presidency of the Community of Madrid, spoke of a reactionary offensive against immigration in Ceuta and denounced “the savage and violent nature of fascism in Spain.” Belarra warned against media outlets that spread dehumanization, rejected labeling the migrant influx in Ceuta as an “invasion,” and described Irene Montero as “the fighting mother the country needs” for the presidency.
