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He already did it from the press room of the Council of Ministers and now he has done it from the Congress of Deputies.

In both cases as second vice president of the Government.

Pablo Iglesias has once again launched an attack on the credibility and freedom of the media, spreading suspicions about their informative function, arguing that they are at the service of the interests of the "millionaires", the "banks" and the "vulture funds" .

In his diatribe, Iglesias has regretted that there is no "any kind of element of democratic control" over the media in Spain, despite the fact that they have a great influence on the formation of public opinion.

"What are the control devices of such immense power?" He has asked himself to spark that debate.

The answer has been given by Citizen Deputy

Guillermo Díaz

, who has warned Iglesias that the only "control over the media" is made by citizens "buying, listening or reading" what they deem appropriate from their free choice to choose.

For this reason, he has reproached him for claiming the existence of some kind of control other than that.

Díaz has criticized Iglesias because "his desire is to control the media."

"Do you think we have to control it from here or from the Government?" He asked "concerned" by what he had heard from the vice president.

"That is the difference between a liberal party and a deeply illiberal one," he rebuked.

This debate in Congress on the press has been the consequence of an interpellation to Iglesias presented by Ciudadanos to address the guarantees for "the exercise of journalism in freedom and without political interference" as a result of the behavior of Podemos and the launch from the party of the web La Ultima Hora, in which journalists or judges are pointed out and defamed practically every day.

The website, branded by the Citizens' deputy as his "armed wing" and an intoxication tool, is run by a former leader and member of the team closest to Iglesias, Dina Bousselham.

Faced with these criticisms, Iglesias has made a closed defense of his related medium and has boasted that with the publicity he was being given, he would increase the number of subscribers.

He has argued that what "bothers" is that it is a "left" website and that it has been "founded" by "a person who was in Podemos."

In this sense, he has tried to equate his case with that of some media or communication groups such as La Razón, El Plural, Mediaset or Prisa, citing people who are in them and who have been linked in the past to the PP or the PSOE.

"When they bring the bulometer closer to your pamphlet, it will burst," said Díaz.

The Cs deputy has reproached Iglesias that his party uses that website for "pressure" and "defamation" of judges and journalists and that it is part of a chain that is propped up in networks to "target journalism" and "lynch" its professionals.

It is a way of acting that, the Cs deputy has emphasized on several occasions, he shares with Vox.

"Podemos and Vox attack the press to be Podemos and Vox those who speak directly to the public to intoxicate them and so that no one controls them", trying to eliminate "critical thinking".

During the debate, Iglesias also questioned the content of the media.

On the one hand, alluding to the number of times that words such as Venezuela, evictions or revolving doors appear.

On the other, for having a "Madrid bias" in the face of "excessive prominence" that, in his opinion, is given to what happens or is expressed in Madrid.

He has also tried to undermine the credibility of the media content by ensuring that they are dominated "by the banks and vulture funds" and has presented what is published or how it acts due to the "pressure" that is exerted from there.

"It is evidence that it is necessary to democratize the media powers in Spain so that there is more plurality," he said.

"In a society in which only millionaires can have great means of communication, it is a democratically limited society," he stressed.

In relation to this, he has assured that these millionaire "owners" have "more real power" than he who is the second vice president of the Government, who "paints much less than the duels of Atresmedia or Mediaset."

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