• TV Ana Rosa responds to Pedro Sánchez's harsh attack on the media: "Trumpism in its purest form"

In the last general elections a schism was caused between Pablo Motos and Pedro Sánchez. Sánchez was the only candidate who rejected the invitation to go to El Hormiguero. That decision did not sit well with Pablo Motos, he has said it a thousand times during all this time.

This led to the fact that from that moment Pedro Sánchez stopped being a 'friend' of El Hormiguero and that every time the President of the Government did something there that the program was going to be there so as not to let it pass.

After the municipal and regional elections last Sunday, that tug of war that El Hormiguero has maintained during this time has increased even more. It is true that this season the attacks of Podemos and members of the political formation in the Government to the program and to Pablo Motos have been fierce, as ferocious, even, as those that Pedro Sánchez pointed out this Wednesday to his deputies.

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The campaign is going to be even more ferocious from prime time programs where people who only represent themselves pontificate without the right to reply, "were the words of the president of the Executive. He did not cite any journalist, any media or any program, but those who had to be taken for granted were given.

First, Ana Rosa Quintana, who this Thursday already answered in her program describing the words of Pedro Sánchez as Trumpism, and at night it was the turn of Pablo Motos, who, like Ana Rosa Quintana has also felt alluded to by the words of Sánchez. But Pablo Motos did not hide it was very clear: "It seems to me that the statements he has made catch us close. Us or MasterChef."

Pablo Motos knows perfectly well that MasterChef has nothing to do with this, but you have to disguise. It is clear that Sanchez's words were not spoken in a moment of outburst. And also that the response of those referred to was not going to be soft.

Pablo Motos' reference to these words was not as lethal as that of Ana Rosa Quintana. Pablo Motos knows that an 'offended' response to Sánchez does not harm him. If Pablo Motos had released a speech against Sánchez last night, Sánchez would have cared and Pablo Motos would have been devastated like a tsunami Sánchez can hurt more that in each gathering of El Hormiguero they put themselves on the table and criticize and question their mistakes or those of the members of their Government.

So before the words of Sánchez, Pablo Motos decided to make an exceptional turn of rudder: invite Sánchez to go to the program and reply to him.

"Just in case it refers to us, I renew the invitation to our president of the Government, who did not want to attend in the other elections," recalled the presenter of El Hormiguero. "I will be happy to receive you and give you the whole hour to reply and say what you want. We will be delighted," said Pablo Motos. "If a president of the government asks to go on television, it takes between one and three seconds to say yes," he added.

"But hey, maybe he wasn't going for us and he meant Wyoming," he blurted out. There it is, Pablo Motos has extended his hand to Pedro Sánchez and now the ball is in the president's court.

"Honestly, criticizing the media I think is pretty old. The media can comment on the things that not only Pedro Sánchez does, but the politicians to whom we pay their salaries," Cristina Pardo argued at the time.

"We are completely eliminating society from the critical spirit permanently. So, they create cults. You hear someone else on the far left say that all media is right-wing. You talk to someone on the far right and they say all the media is left-wing. It seems to me that we all have to reflect on what happens and on what each one of us thinks, "continued Juan del Val, who has had his week of glory after describing on Monday in El Hormiguero as "fascists" to Podemos.

Pablo Motos wanted to settle the answer and insisted that El Hormiguero has nothing personal against Pedro Sánchez: "When another person is in power, we will criticize that other person who is in power. Which is a very healthy thing that democracy has. If as soon as they send they are wrong. But then there's whether they do nonsense or not."

In the previous elections and in those before, Pablo Motos opened the program to all candidates. In the first of Sánchez, he did attend and it was a program like any other, like the rest of the candidates. In the aftermath, Sanchez refused to go. Pablo Motos has told it several times that he called him, that he invited him and that there were only lengths of his team, not even of Sánchez himself.

For the elections of this July 23, in addition to being in summer, the heat, the holidays and all those problems that are being pointed out, El Hormiguero has no opportunity for the candidates to go because by that time El Hormiguero is no longer on the air. The only possibility would be to do it in this month of June. The question now is whether Pedro Sánchez will accept the challenge of Pablo Motos and take the right to reply from Pablo Motos.

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