“I’m going to shut up what I think”: the commented response of the minister Ione Belarra on the controversy of the Benidorm Fest

It continues to raise the controversy over the Benidorm Festwho last Saturday chose the singer chanell as representative of Spain in Eurovision 2022.

An unexpected victory against the two favorite candidacies of the public, Rigoberta Bandini and Tanxugueiras, which has generated enormous controversy that has even reached politics, to the point that Galicia in Common has taken to Congress a petition for RTVE to publish the score detailed of the jury in the final.

The question has even been raised in the press conference after the Council of Ministers this Tuesday, where a journalist has asked if the Government is in favor of investigating the vote and has asked the ministers appearing for their favorite song of the festival.

In this regard, the response from the head of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarrahas been the one that has attracted the most attention from the media present there: “I’m going to shut up what I think… about the song”the Secretary General of United We Can pointed out with a laugh, as you can see in the video that illustrates these lines.

For her part, the spokeswoman for the Executive, Isabel Rodríguez, has avoided entering into the Eurovision controversy and has stated that “the European contest in which this Government is focused is on compliance with the recovery plan and the deployment of funds”. “Here yes, Spain is the first”, he added.