“We will see how he tries to confuse us with a bunch of conveniently selected, manipulated or directly false economic data & rdquor ;. This is how Santiago Abascal referred to Pedro Sánchez, in his first speech at the debate three of RTVE. This, just before releasing one string of false or misleading data on issues such as climate change, gender violence or trans law.
And it is that all the candidates are concerned that disinformation is used to deceive the voters, but, in turn, all of them disseminate to a greater or lesser extent incorrect data or statements.
More than 11 million Spaniards connected at some point face to face with Atresmediawhere Sánchez and Feijóo they exchanged incorrect dataand almost eight million did so in the debate to three of RTVEin which Verificat and Maldita deny or contextualize a total of 17 statements.
hoaxes about economy
One of the most commented moments of the campaign was carried out by the journalist from TVE Silvia Intxaurrondo, checking live to Alberto Núñez Feijóo when he said that the PP “always & rdquor; had revalued pensions with the CPI. The socialists have used this ‘caught’ in their favor, even also falling into errors. His candidate for Barcelona, Meritxell Batet, said wrongly that the PP “never” had equated pensions and CPI.
In the discussion of TV3Nacho Martín Blanco rescued the misleading fact of the “flight of 7,000 companies & rdquor; for him process. In reality, between 2017 and 2020, 7,007 companies moved their headquarters outside of Catalonia, but another 2,509 came from other communities. This also means that Miriam Nogueras’s response (Junts), who stated that “not one company has left& rdquor ;, it was not true either.
And now we do not have the best youth employment figures, on the contrary of what Pedro Sánchez stated in RTVE. In 2006, the number of people under 30 working was 76% higher, and the youth unemployment rate in 2007 was almost half that of today.
Nor is it true, despite what Yolanda Díaz said, that there had never been so many people working in the fields: in 2008 there were 120,000 more farmers than now.
climate denialism
The electoral campaign has coincided with the hottest weeks on record globally. Still, climate denialism has been around. Abascal was the speaker of the theory that the Spanish government “dynamite dams,” & rdquor; a conspiracy narrative that claims the drought is caused by the state. It isn’t true: Small abandoned dams have been dismantled for environmental reasons, but the capacity of the reservoirs has grown in recent years.
Vox has once again put the focus on the misleading relationship between immigration and crime. But the scientific evidence is clear: crime is multifactorial and the socioeconomic level influences more than the origin of a person.
Abascal also affirmed that the trans law leaves victims of gender violence unprotected. But the new law is also clear: If an aggressor requests a change of registered sex after an assault, this will be judged as sexist violence.
Attacks on the electoral system
The OSCE election observation mission has already express “a high level of confidence in the integrity, impartiality and effectiveness of the electoral administration & rdquor; Spanish, but this has not served to curb the hoaxes about the electoral process itself.
One of the most shared has been the one that said that 450,000 citizens Those who had requested to vote by mail were going to be left without being able to vote because the Post Office had not been able to deliver the documentation to their homes. This was insinuated by Santiago Abascal himself in statements to the media and shared it the official Vox Twitter account reaching almost half a million views.
However, the data referred to the 450,607 voters that they had requested to vote by mail, but that, after Correos had made two unsuccessful attempts to deliver the electoral documentation by hand, they had to go to an office to collect the ballots and the envelope, as indicated electoral law. That is to say, does not mean that these voters were going to be left without voting.
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But this has not been the only one. A tweet with more than 200,000 views said that “354 PP votes by mail had been found in a construction container & rdquor; when, In fact, it was electoral propaganda of the popular. A viral video denounced that among the vote-by-mail ballots sent by the Post Office was not that of Vox when, as denied Damned, the documentation it showed corresponded to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where the party has not been presented.
There are also recurring lies, such as the hoax that the government plans to manipulate the count thanks to Indra’s help. This is impossible: neither does Indra participate in any of the scrutiny phases nor does it have the capacity to manipulate the electionsas Verificat already explained in EL PERIÓDICO.