Vox is installed in the systematic insult and atiborra the debate of tacos and rudeness | Spain

María Pastor has addressed the President of the Government several times with an expression of three words known throughout the world, but that the decorum advises to pronounce as little as possible. In October last year, who had been a Vox candidate to the Senate, thus responded to a tweet from Pedro Sánchez, so that he could read it: « Son of a bitch, you will free terrorists (…). In the end Txapote has voted for you, bastard (sic). » It is not an isolated comment. In December, Pastor insult him again, with the same mention to his mother, again going directly to him. In January he defended that in the Magi ride in Seville He would have chanted that insult against the chief of the Executive. « Pedro Sánchez, son of a bitch, » he reaffirmed.

The City of Seville has just chosen Pastor, who has also insulted other politicians and journalists, to direct the new “Maternity Support Office”, a transfer of the PP to Vox in exchange for budgets which has allowed the Santiago Abascal party to presume to have put a « companion » at the head of an anti -abortion agency. The country transferred to Vox Nacional and Vox Sevilla some background of pastor and asked if they saw it appropriate for a public office. There was no answer. As for the new municipal director, she eliminated offensive tweets after the questions of this newspaper and restricted access to her X account. It might seem the reaction of those who do not want to disregard an atmosphere of courtesy. But the truth is that, looking at Vox’s activity, I shouldn’t have reasons to expect any reprimand above. Because in the third party of Spain the insult is current currency.

Other Vox figures with a much higher profile insult frequently and without any posterior dissimulation. And there are no consequences. « There is a band of bitch children in the power that casts the Spaniards and is brought to Muslims, » ​​he wrote on April 2 Hermann Tretsch to comment critical information with the government. The Europarliamentary offers an extreme example of a growing tendency to insult in Vox ranks. It is a guideline that is not limited to calling Sanchez « traitor », « corrupt », « coup », « tyrant. » All of that is already routine, such as xenophobia or contempt for the victims of Francoism. It is reviewed in this article, only with April manifestations – verbal or in networks – indicates that Vox has installed a step higher and resorts to a systematic use of denigration, the bad offense, rudeness, the manipulation of names and adjectives with negligatory effect, the presentation of adversaries as patients or criminals.

« Desperabrado Psychopath, » Vox calls the head of the Government in his networks. « Psychopath » is a usual adjective referring to the president. The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, who states that Sánchez is a « satrap » that « laughs like a psychopath » while « enjoy each pandemic, of each Dana, of each war » is used. The Andalusian president, Juan Manuel Moreno, Abascal calls him « Juanma Moruno » for allocating aid to foreigners. « Moruno » is for « Moor », a derogatory term for the Muslims that Vox Rocío de Meer leads use as referred to a Moroccan stopped in Almeria.

The EuroParliamentario Juan Carlos Girauta compares Minister María Jesús Montero, for her way of speaking, with Chiquito de la Calzada. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is called « Canalla ». It is another usual insult. Tetsch uses it against Sánchez, the « supreme scoundrel », at the head of his « hitmen. » If he had been in a « Franco prison, » he adds, Sánchez « would have fattened », he was well there compared to Ho Chi Min prisons, to which the president put flowers in Vietnam. There are daily messages in that tone. None is never unauthorized.

Abascal and yours give maximum credibility to accusations against the former minister José Luis Ábalos having paid prostitutes with public money. Faced with criticism for your Donald Trump’s follow -upthe president of Vox states that the « true tariff » is « to spend public money on whores as the parties that are in the government have made. » Tetsch calls the socialist minister and socialist leader Pilar Alegría, accused without evidence of having known an alleged orgy with prostitutes in the Parador de Teruel in 2020, the « joy of the hostel. » He also proclaims that, if the PSOE expels the Puteros, the party « is emptied. » « The world of whores is pure socialism, » he says.

« Imbécil », « Rata », « Lelo »

Vox is not at all the only reason why Spanish politics It is not a Versaillesque room. Alvise Pérez He calls the Minister Óscar Puente « parasite and is allowed to ask joy if her appointment as a minister is due to her » sex life.  » Several degrees below, the mayor of Badalona, ​​Xavier García-Albiol, of the PP, called in March “Illitera” to María Jesús Montero. Also in March, his partner, deputy of the PP in the Valencian Courts, José Ramón González de Zárate, compared several leaders of the PSOE with different types of bitch. Isabel Díaz Ayuso never withdrew a « son of a bitch » to Pedro Sánchez read on his lips in the guest tribune of Congress in 2023. On the contrary, he gave him wings with his famous « I like fruit ». Minister Óscar Puente, of the PSOE, was accused by the PP of « machismo » for referring to Ayuso’s boyfriend a year ago as « Testaferro with the right to rub ».

But for intensity, continuity and number of voices, Vox « plays in another league », in the words of José Luis Martí, professor of philosophy of law at Pompeu Fabra University, which investigates the impact of new technologies on democracy. « It is not that in the other parties all are Dukes, but Vox and the entire European extreme right, and I would say that World Coordinate extreme right forcesthe theoretician Trumpist Steve Bannon defended a strategy of maximum belligerence in language.

Within Vox, Tretsch is the most unbridled. De Patxi López says he is known as « The son Lelo de Lalo. » Pablo Iglesias is called « Imbécil. » As a Europarliamentary that is, Tertsch has an international vocation. To the French president, Emmanuel Macron, puts him as « Majadero. » Faults of respect are not limited to political rivalsthey also go against journalists and media. Some examples? Has made fortune call Silvia Intxaurrondoof TVE, « Silvia Intxahurraco ». Girauta says that the EFE agency is named for « felratrices », he says that the audience of a four -year program has a « high gilipollas index » and writes that The avant -garde It is « a parasitic half shit. » Tetsch calls one of the journalists of the Catalan newspaper. David Broncano is a « jester, » says Andalusian parliamentarian Ricardo López de Olea. For Tertsch, the comedian with TVE program is « Gentuza ». Vox has not answered the questions of this newspaper.

Martí, from the Pompeu Fabra, believes that atiboring the debate of insults and tacos is far from an anecdotal, or merely relevant in the formal plane. By « deteriorating the public sphere », this behavior is part of the « perfect storm » that democracies are going through today, he says. « There is a part of the population, especially young, which is reported by networks and ends up believing that politics is something that is allowed to respect and there is no truthful and argued debate, » says the researcher, who maintains that this results in A « football » of partisan adhesions. The solution, insists, is not « ban », a response that sharpens the « victimism » of the extreme right, but criticize with arguments and give alternatives.

Pablo López-Rabadán, director of the degree of journalism of the Jaume I of Castellón, is not surprised that Vox « leads » the tendency to insult, but points out that it is a phenomenon that affects the whole of Spanish politics. « The intensity of polarization lands in an increasingly hard speech, where insult has normalized. And social networks contribute to excesses, » says López-Rabadán, author among others from a job on the Use of Telegram by Vox and that currently investigates social networks campaigns in the last generals.