The PP has presented a claim before the Electoral Board of the Madrid Zone to demand the removal of the canvas installed by Podemos in the capital in which the face of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s brother appears along with a phrase from the former leader of the PP Pablo Casado in which he questioned the participation of the aforementioned, Tomás Díaz Ayuso, in a mask supply contract.
Specifically, the banner includes a question that Casado raised in an interview at Cope on February 18, 2022, in the midst of the internal war with Ayuso: “The question is whether it is understandable that on April 1, when 700 people died in Spain, You can contract with your sister and receive 286,000 euros of profit for selling masks.
PP sources have confirmed the filing of the complaint, to which Efe has had access and in which the PP also requests the opening of a disciplinary file against Podemos understanding that he has committed a “serious electoral infraction”.
“You have to kick them out”
The Podemos banner is designed as if it were a tweet sent from the PP account, which includes Casado’s phrase and the photo of Tomás Díaz Ayuso. And below, already on a background of the characteristic purple color of the formation, you can read: “You have to throw them out!”.
The PP argues that Podemos has incurred several illegalities: firstly, using the “symbols, colors and typography” identifying the PP, which “may mislead voters about the authorship of the electoral message”.
In fact, the PP maintains that Podemos “is not identified on said canvas as its author”despite the fact that the name and logo of the purple formation appear on the sides of the banner.
“A manipulated tweet”
The PP also denounces that the canvas reproduces “an alleged tweet that has been manipulated” and “does not follow the literalness”, as well as the use of the image of Tomás Díaz Ayuso “without his authorization”, which they see as a violation of the constitutional right to one’s own image.
The European Fraud Prosecutor’s Office closed the case on the alleged embezzlement of European funds in the mask supply contract in which Tomás Díaz Ayuso participated. Nevertheless, Podemos’ electoral campaign is focusing on this case: In the electoral debate last Monday on Telemadrid, the candidate Alejandra Jacinto wore a blouse with photos of Ayuso’s brother in which the same phrase from Casado could be read.
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And the next day the Minister of Social Rights and Secretary General of Podemos, Ione Belarra, appeared in Congress with a T-shirt with an almost identical design.
The cartel denounced by the PP has been installed on the same façade on Calle Goya where Podemos placed another controversial canvas last weekin this case addressed to the ‘cayetanos’ of that area, one of the wealthiest in the capital.