Podemos began the campaign by turning housing into its strategic axis but now ends it by turning to talking about the “mafia” and the “corruption” of PP politicians, businessmen and the media. In a totum revolutum that evokes that tramabús, an unfortunate memory then for a part of the party, which has now mutated into a version of a poster, shirt or bill.

In line with this strategy, the purple formation now fires against the credibility of journalists and media managers as the final cartridge to resist this 28-M. The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has announced that they are preparing a law to force “television presenters” and the directors and managers of the media to publish a declaration of assets “to make their economic interests public.”

The premise of Podemos is that people with “great media power” do not “sometimes” provide “true” information but seek to “condition legislative and executive decision-making in a way that benefits their own private economic interests.”

Sources from Podemos influence this justification: “Citizens will be able to transparently know the economic interests of those who direct and decide the editorial line of the media. Like politicians, they may face conflicts of interest that jeopardize the constitutional access to truthful information for citizens.”

In statements in Toledo during a visit in support of the Castilla-La Mancha candidate, José Luis Gascón, Belarra argued that it has been shown “that there are journalists who present television programs that command more than a deputy or a minister and people have right to know what their economic interests are”. In this sense, the Minister of Social Rights has attacked Ana Rosa Quintana, whom she has accused of being “a real estate speculator disguised as a journalist” because she owns tourist apartments.

Sources from Podemos report that their proposal will affect “the presenters and directors of programs with some political content in the major media, those of the news, and the members of the board of directors and the owners of a significant number of shares in the same”.

All of them will have, according to these sources, “the legal obligation to publish their shares in any type of company, listed or not, specifying the economic activity they carry out and including, in particular, companies that work in strategic sectors, such as energy or food , companies that operate in areas that affect fundamental rights, such as health, education, care or housing, and companies that invoice a significant part of their income to the public administration”.

In the same way, “they must also indicate any invoicing that they carry out directly or indirectly with other companies or with the public administration,” these sources point out.