The former leader of Podemos coincides the launch with the Government negotiations, where the party wants to place Irene Montero as minister
Pablo Iglesias insists on his attempt expand its influence on the left with a content website, ‘Diario Red’which will be added to the television that he already directs and launched at the beginning of the year, Canal Red. The former leader of Podemos lo does at a key moment for the gamein the midst of a fight with Yolanda Díaz and after having suffered a significant weight loss and visibilityafter achieving only five deputies in Congress and being left without a voice in the parliamentary seat, preventing him from presenting initiatives and the ability to set the agenda.
Until now, Iglesias had already used his television as a platform to give visibility to his party and its leaders, who appeared as regular speakers on various programs. Now he is taking another step to try to alleviate the difficult situation of Podemos after seeing its political capacity reduced and, at the same time, insisting on his attack on Yolanda Díaz, whom they have demanded her own ministers in a coalition government and openly asked for entry. by Irene Montero.
The purple ones have called this Saturday an event where the party’s “new roadmap” will be announced, where will boost the figure of Montero, considered a symbol in the purple ranks after Sumar’s veto on the electoral lists. The platform sees the light in the middle of the negotiations for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, a key moment for Podemos where it will seek to assert itself against Sumar, and where ‘Canal Red’ and ‘Diario Red’ will serve as a battering ram in a sector of the left. The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarrahas already welcomed the new “newspaper”, and has considered it a “great news”while asking for economic collaboration.
Canal Red grows and Diario Red is born, a new digital newspaper @CanalRed_TV. Great news for everyone.
If you still don’t support them, remember that you can do so here 👇https://t.co/UMyqiIHDwO https://t.co/yEffTEj5zM
— Ione Belarra (@ionebelarra) September 15, 2023
In a video released by Iglesias, the former leader announced “a new newspaper” that would have “the trademarks of the house: a left-wing editorial linean iron commitment to rigor in the face of the normalization of lies and hoaxes, and the courage necessary to talk about everything, and about all those that the vast majority of media do not dare to talk about.” At this point, pointed out that “we are here to break the media power block which has become one of the main threats to democracy.” “Of course, we are going to need your support,” he stressed, to ask for donations from his followers.
After the closure of LUH
The new project will begin on Monday, September 18, when six months will have passed since what was ‘the Podemos newspaper’ closed, ‘The Last Hour (LUH)’, directed by the former purple deputy Dina Bousselhamwhich after the closure went – along with part of the staff – to join the ranks of Iglesias’ new “militant television”.
The new website announced by the former vice president and businessman now returns to ‘recycle’ the resources of the previous pamphlet, and has renamed the Facebook page – now inactive – that until now was called LUH as ‘Diario Red’, with the aim of preserving the more than 53,000 followers it had. The launch also comes at a difficult time for Podemos, which laid off 70% of its staff in an ERE, and it is expected that former workers and party members can now join the new project.
Roures, sole shareholder
Canal Red is the company’s television brand Melancholic Films SL., whose sole administrator was Jaume Roures until last April, when the position passed to Pablo Iglesias. The company, however, continues to have as its sole investor Mediacable Production Services SLchaired and controlled by Roures with 99% of the shares.
It was in the fall of 2021, coinciding with the solo launch of Yolanda Díaz, when Pablo Iglesias began his offensive against networks such as La Sexta of which he had been a regular collaborator shortly before, even accusing the Galician leader of collusion for intervening in some of its programs. A strategy that mixed politics with business interests, paving the way for a place in the media landscape and attracting viewers from the most radical left.
The strategy culminated a little over a year later with the launch of Canal Red. So far the project has had a modest journey, with just over 30,000 followers on YouTube and 44,000 on Instagram, and a modest number of views.