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A Vox MP threatens Marc Giró: "We will fire him immediately."

Manuel Mariscal Zabala accuses the Barcelona journalist of making fun of Spaniards in one of his monologues.

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BarcelonaMarc Giró started the program on Tuesday Late show, from La 1, with a monologue in which he joked about "the Spanish macho" and his alleged persecution by "gender ideology." The humorous speech did not go down well with Vox representative Manuel Mariscal Zabala, who threatened to fire the Catalan presenter on social media. "Marc Giró earns 3,800 euros per program with money from the public coffers. When Vox arrives at RTVE, he will be summarily dismissed for making fun of the Spanish people," said Mariscal Zabala, who represents Vox on RTVE's parliamentary oversight committee in Congress.

"Who persecutes you in Spain if you're a macho man? Well, it's easy: gender ideology, which doesn't allow you to freely display your virility because, when you do, a perfidious, vengeful, and evil woman appears from behind a tree with a false accusation of violence between her teeth," Giró told the world. The Catalan continued joking about the "Spanish macho" and pointed out that these men who feel persecuted at the same time dedicate themselves to persecuting immigrants, whom they consider "responsible for the destruction of Spain."

Giró finished the monologue, giving way to a "typical Spanish macho man: burly, hairy, and olive-skinned." At that moment, Oscar Camps, founder and director of Open Arms, entered the set.

Entering RTVE with a "chainsaw or flamethrower"

Manuel Mariscal Zabala's threats have not been limited to Marc Giró. Today, the Vox MP participated in the joint committee for parliamentary oversight of RTVE and took the opportunity to point fingers at other communicators on public television. "The Spanish people are tired of seeing the smiles on the faces of Javier Ruiz, Jesús Cintora, Silvia Intxaurrondo, Buenafuente, and others. They smile because they are lining their pockets while insulting, manipulating, and lying to the Spanish people. But, as the saying goes, when Vox arrives at Spanish National Television and fires you and the aforementioned people," Mariscal told the broadcaster's president, José Pablo López.

The Vox MP has reaffirmed the threats to RTVE workers, assuring that when they come to power, they will enter the corporation with "a chainsaw or a flamethrower" and will not act like the PP, "which disassociated itself from Spanish National Television when it achieved an absolute majority."

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