Ana Rosa Quintana is not going through her best professional moment. Since TardeAR premiered in mid-September, audiences have only decreased and criticism has increased. This past Wednesday's broadcast remained at a historic low, with a 7.1% audience share and 635,000 viewers on average. Some figures that distance it from its main competitor, Sonsoles Ónega, but they were not the highlight of that broadcast.
Once again, and on the eve of the investiture that ended up re-electing Pedro Sánchez as President of the Government today, Thursday, Ana Rosa attacked the socialist politician in one of her well-known political editorials. On this occasion, the presenter reviewed from top to bottom all the drawbacks that she saw with his way of getting to Moncloa, accusing him of using the amnesty of Carles Puigdemont and other Catalan politicians as a "bargaining currency."
“Tomorrow, Pedro Sánchez is going to be sworn in as president, and from here we predict a tough and complicated legislature. Today, in fact, we have already witnessed the beginning of this confrontation in Congress between the president and the leader of the opposition. The truth is that neither Feijóo, nor his pro-independence supporters, nor, of course, the street are going to make it easy for the new president,” he declared, pointing out the speech of the already president of the Spanish executive as “frontist.”
“He has been appointed head of the opposition and president of a part, nothing more, of the Spaniards, of those who voted for him. The news is what he has not said: he has not mentioned his investiture partners, nor Esquerra, nor Bildu, nor Junts, much less Puigdemont; “He has not said anything about the historical socialists who do not support a measure that is not left-wing,” he continued, even counting the minutes it took him to mention the highly viralized agreement.
“It took him an hour and twenty-five minutes to mention the word amnesty, which is the bargaining chip thanks to which he is going to be sworn in as president. Nor has he explained the write-off of Catalonia's debt, nor what the figure of the verifier with whom he is going to meet in Geneva consists of, nor why he has tied up the judges to present appeals for the amnesty," he pointed out, reiterating that The amnesty was neither good nor expected by any Spaniard.
“Nor has he explained why it took five years to draft this law, if it was very good for guaranteeing coexistence between Spaniards. Pedro Sánchez justifies himself by pointing out that he makes a virtue of necessity. So, Mr. Sánchez, no one needed this amnesty except 400 people accused of different causes. Today, the motto has been that old 'Me or Chaos' cartoon. “Either me and the amnesty, or the extreme right,” Quintana concluded in his agitated speech.
