Pablo Iglesias says that Vox's attack on Irene Montero "is not isolated" and asks those "who put themselves in profile" to reflect

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The former Secretary General of Podemos and former Vice President of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, considers that Vox's attack on the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, "is not an isolated event", but "the result of a sustained campaign of disinformation and attacks "against the law of

and against Montero.

In a tweet, Iglesias has joined the reactions unleashed after the intervention of the Vox deputy

in the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies , in which she stated that "the only merit" of Irene Montero is "having studied in depth Pablo Iglesias", his partner and founder of Podemos, and described her as a "liberator of rapists".

Faced with these accusations, Pablo Iglesias has responded on social networks "those who were silent or put themselves in profile and those who accused Podemos of victimhood, should reflect today."

On this occasion, Iglesias has not elaborated more on who are the ones who "put themselves in profile".

Days ago, he was very critical of Yolanda Díaz, whom he attacked for "putting herself in profile" with Irene Montero: "She is miserable, cowardly and politically stupid."

The second vice president has published a tweet stating that it is "intolerable" that "sexist insults and attacks on the minister" are uttered.

The Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, who stayed out of the crisis unleashed by the cases of reductions in the sentences of sexual offenders due to the entry into force of the law of

, has also published a tweet showing his support for Irene Montero.

Similarly, the spokesperson for the PP in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, has used this social network to demand "respect" as an "essential element in politics."

"No one has the right to offend" the Minister for Equality or "enter her personal life," Gamarra said of Montero, adding that the minister "must assume political responsibilities for a Law that has harmful effects."

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