[News] Podemos denies ABC photographers entry to their election night

[SougarLord]

 

Podemos has denied ABC the access of its photographers to its headquarters in the Madrid district of Ciudad Lineal this Tuesday to offer information on the electoral results that the training achieves after the closing of the polls of the regional elections in the Community of Madrid. The formation led by Pablo Iglesias guaranteed ABC access this Sunday at noon along with the graphic editors of Efe, Europa Press and 'El Periódico de Catalunya'. However, 24 hours later, he changed his mind and denied our newspaper its entry into the headquarters to introduce the GTres agency into the news coverage approved by the populist formation, without giving any reason.

 

ABC has been developing its informative work without any impediment on the part of the purple formation until this electoral campaign. Podemos' position coincides with today's celebration of World Press Freedom Day. Pablo Iglesias began his electoral pre-campaign in the Community of Madrid by refusing to hold press conferences or answer questions beyond the agreed interviews, as well as for the photographers of any media to graphically collect his actions, which were mostly not notified until after his execution. Two days before the beginning of the electoral campaign he rectified.

 

The change of opinion of Podemos and the refusal of our graphic editors to access its headquarters coincides with the publication in ABC of both information last Sunday and this Monday, accounting for the arrest of one of its employees and a second directly related to the populist formation due to the riots that took place on April 7 in the Plaza de la Constitución in Vallecas during a Vox electoral act. ABC has also reported that a leader of the Bukaneros, a radical left-wing group, is part of Pablo Iglesias' security during this electoral campaign.

 

Podemos also denied access to the ABC photographers to the campaign closing ceremony held on Sunday in the Cuña Verde park, in the Vicálvaro district, under the anti-Covid regulations. It did allow the entry of an editor.