At laSexta we have been fortunate to have on numerous occasions the current vision of Almudena Grandes. The writer died this Saturday at the age of 61, leaving phrases and analysis widely shared by the audience.
His last intervention in the chain took place in The intermediate next to Thais Villas, with which he walked the streets of Madrid talking about his book ‘Frankenstein’s mother’.
Earlier, your arguments in favor of the equality and of the historical memory they left an important residue. Here are some of those moments from Grandes en laSexta.
“Vox? One does not know what they are more, if stupid or bad”
Weeks before the pandemic arrived, Grandes was on the set of laSexta Noche with Iñaki López, being very critical of the parental pin defended by Vox.
“It is the ‘Neanderthal pin’. As long as everyone’s money does not only support public education, saying that the State puts its hands in families is something that we should not tolerate,” he said at the time.
His assessment of the sentence to ‘La Manada’
“Outrageous“, “deficient” e “incomprehensible“This is how Almudena Grandes defined in laSexta Noche the sentence in the ‘La Manada’ case, which she saw as” ideological. “
“It seems that if you do not expose your life they cannot consider you a victim,” he declared, asking for a change in the Penal Code.
Almudena Grandes’s analysis of Albert Rivera
At the 2019 Book Fair, Thais Villas accompanied Grandes on a walk that had everything and that we could see in El Intermedio.
The writer dedicated a few words to Albert Rivera: “He’s so, so, so in love, so fascinated with himself, which does not distinguish what lies beyond “.
Debt to Republican exiles
For Grandes, Spain has “a huge debt“with the Republican exiles. In Más Vale Tarde, speaking of his latest book, he explained the” hope “that existed in Spain in the 1940s despite the repression, a hope that” disappeared “in the 1950s.
“Patriotism is not wearing a flag bracelet”
Grandes defined herself as a feminist, republican and deeply Spanish. About patriotism, the writer admitted that she was “angry” that it was such a “trivial” question.
“Unfortunately, this bracelet patriotism cares little about making a fool of himself“, expressed in the Sixth Night.
Your message to Ortega Smith
The writer responded on laSexta Noche to a statement by Javier Ortega Smith in which he stated that women “do not have the right” to abortion. “We are going to do everything possible so that the mafias and the ‘lobbies’ that live off abortion end that bloody business“said the then Vox candidate for mayor of Madrid.
Grandes was emphatic in her response: “It’s the cavern. I would remind you that the feminist movement overthrew a minister. Gallardón resigned when the freedom trains arrived in Madrid and the feminist movement prevented the reform of the abortion law. “
“The Supreme takes position in favor of the dictatorship”
In June 2019, after the Supreme Court provisionally halted Franco’s exhumation, Grandes was radically against it. “I find it amazing that an institution like the Supreme Court does not understand that it is forsaking millions of Spaniards by doing something like that. There are millions of Spaniards who have every right to say that they do not represent them,” he said at the time.
His vision of the sovereignty process in Catalonia
The writer analyzed in El Intermedio the independence process in 2015. “Mas and Rajoy support each other and that’s fine“, he complained. He also announced that he was going to stop writing columns on this issue.
Criticism of Mariano Rajoy: “Spain is an abnormal country”
Mariano Rajoy practically boasted of not having dedicated money to the Historical Memory in 2015, something that provoked the anger of Grandes. “For this, I’d better go back to plasma,” he ironized at the time.
His last speech on laSexta
Along with Thais Villas, Grandes shared his “ideological problem” with him.perreo‘because of the lyrics of those kinds of songs. In addition, he commented on the “tension of the opposition” towards the Sánchez government.
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