On Friday morning, in Public mirror, Susanna Griso interviewed the new PP spokesperson, Esther Muñoz. The conversation was very useful for understanding the profile Feijóo's party has sought to address the media and the public. Muñoz symbolizes a generational renewal. Griso made it very easy for her, and the spokesperson displayed great discursive force. She uses unfiltered dialectics, effective on social media, very combative, perfectly aligned with the strategy of parliamentary confrontation. She is determined before the media, with a tough and expeditious attitude, which conveys maximum loyalty.
Muñoz took the opportunity during the interview to spread the news released by The Spanish which claimed that Pedro Sánchez had benefited from the profits from the saunas his father-in-law was co-owner of. The strategy served to criticize the law abolishing prostitution, considering it an act of cynicism on the part of Sánchez. Muñoz claimed that Begoña Gómez had run and managed these establishments, and that, therefore, thanks to these businesses, they had been able to pay for the apartment the couple had lived in. Griso, who referred to this information as a "bombshell," asked Muñoz if he was aware that Feijóo had requested the documents to verify the information. "I'm not aware," Muñoz replied. Simultaneously, Public mirror showed fragments of these alleged handwritings on screen. They were papers with the names Pedro Sánchez and Begoña Gómez underlined, but without any text that allowed any conclusions to be drawn. But the inclusion of the underlined clippings in the middle emphasized the same phrase: "The truth is hard. I understand it. But it's the truth." He wanted to define the term. sauna: "I want to clarify something, because my grandparents, who are watching the program, think a sauna is a spa. And it's not." She then specified that in the saunas where, according to her, Begoña Gómez kept the accounts, sex was practiced freely, for a fee, and with young immigrant women working as prostitutes.
The carelessness and aggressiveness with which this information is being disseminated is surprising. Also the lack of caution with which other media outlets report it without verifying it. But there is one detail that has been repeated in recent months in Public mirror and other programs of the same ideological persuasion, which is this obsession with taking the story to the realm of prostitution, brothels, and anonymous young women supposedly linked to Ábalos and Koldo. They exploit them, taking advantage of the spectacle and morbidity of a sordid context—constructed by the media—that scandalizes the most conservative electorate.
