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From the “lame whore” to the song against Abascal

In a perfect ‘selfie’ that demonstrates her skills as a ‘millennial’, Ángela Rodríguez, better known as Pam, focuses smiling before directing the camera at a group of protesters who on 8-M chanted “What a pity it gives me that the mother de Abascal could not abort ». Then, to close the video, the Secretary of State for Equality and Against Gender Violence re-records herself without changing her smile. She deleted the images hours after posting them on her social networks, when the controversy was already flying over Irene Montero’s number two.

This is not a new situation for this Galician activist, who has a degree in Philosophy and who accumulates several controversies that have cost her numerous resignation requests despite the fact that she has not yet served two years in office.


The Secretary of State for Equality, on the left, during the demonstration. 8-M.

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But who is the fashionable woman in the Ministry of Equality, who has become Pedro Sánchez’s latest headache? Rodríguez began his social commitment in 15-M, the movement under which Spain shook off its indignation after decades of corruption and abuse of power. During those protests, Podemos germinated, a formation to which the now Secretary of State immediately joined. Backed by Íñigo Errejón, in 2016 she opted for the general secretary of the party in Galicia, although she lost to Carmen Santos from Vigo, whom she referred to in a private chat as a “lame bitch” due to her physical disability.

That insult launched Rodríguez’s resume of blunders, with sufficient skill and protection to have been dodging them all, one by one, without the need to apologize publicly. In Equality everyone knows: the Secretary of State is untouchable for Montero. At least for now, and that was not his first option. Reinforced as the minister’s best ally in the midst of a storm due to the ‘only yes is yes’ law, the application of which has caused hundreds of reductions in sentences for sex offenders, the Galician activist, who replaced Noelia Vera in office after she announced her withdrawal from politics, she puts her impunity to the test time and time again.

Joke about reduced sentences

In January he frivolized with these reductions in sentences. During a debate, and paradoxically after stating that she did not want to take away the “relevance” of an issue that has already led to more than 70 releases, “Pam” downplayed “that a man is twelve or eleven or ten years and five months » in prison. Immediately afterward, he changed the tone to make “a joke” due to the criticism received: “From the creators of ‘People are going to go to the register to change their sex every morning’ comes ‘Los violadores a la calle’. Hundreds, thousands, waves.

He said it between laughs, a laugh that opened another crack in the battered relationship between the PSOE and United We Can. The socialists made the comment ugly, recalling that it was not a subject on which one could be “ironic” and even recognized that it was not “the tone” of a Secretary of State, before justifying that everyone has “a bad day”. ». Also now, with the video about Abascal, the PSOE has had to juggle to understand that the removal of the images is a way of apologizing. “This is how I want to understand it,” Minister María Jesús Montero has settled. But the truth is that ‘Pam’ has not stopped tightening the rope in recent months.

Irene Montero especially values ​​Rodríguez’s role in the development and approval of the trans law. She feeds that loyalty by flattering the minister whenever she gets the chance. “What reigns my boss”, published a few weeks ago along with an image of the head of Equality, increasingly alone in her defense of the Secretary of State, who defends that roommates are considered family members, criticizes that women prefer penetration over masturbation and declare that the Satisfyer “kills fascists.”

«I have always said it: not everything goes in politics. These kinds of attitudes are unjustifiable in public office and the Government must condemn them,” Alberto Núñez Feijóo wrote on Twitter, referring to Rodríguez’s video against Abascal. Vox has called for his immediate dismissal. The Secretary of State considers that Abascal’s formation “dramatizes” and attributes the controversy “to the fact that they have never gone to an 8-M demonstration and do not know what it is.”

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