Hugo Pereira, director of 'ElConstitucional.es', condemns Feijóo for his defense of ultra-agitator Vito Quiles: "I already warned that it was going to be very costly for the PP"

The director of 'ElConstitucional.es', Hugo Pereira, this Thursday in 'Mañaneros 360', La 1 of TVE's morning show, lashed out at Alberto Núñez Feijóo for his defense of the ultra agitator Vito Quiles, after the Police tried to arrest him this Wednesday at the EDA TV headquarters, Javier Negre's channel, due to a warrant for his arrest.

Pereira recalled Feijóo's words when the PP leader came out in defense of Quiles and addressed journalists to present him as a colleague. A scene that, in the opinion of the director of this media outlet, now returns with more force after the ultra agitator's latest judicial episode.

“Those words at the time disgusted me. Now, seeing who attributes to us journalists that we have to be colleagues of a person who is wanted and arrested, of a person who is being persecuted by the authorities, by justice, those words from Alberto Núñez Feijóo disgust me even more,” Pereira said on set.

The journalist has categorically rejected that Quiles can be treated as just another journalist. “Of course we are not colleagues of an ultra agitator, and the PP should know that,” he added.

Pereira also recalled that he had already warned months ago about the cost that politically elevating Quiles could have for the Popular Party. “I said months ago that it was going to be very expensive for Feijóo, for the Popular Party, to defend Vito Quiles, to put him on a pedestal as if he were a journalist, and it is proving very expensive,” he stated.

The intervention comes a day after police officers went to the EDA TV newsroom to try to arrest Quiles. The agitator was not at the headquarters and later reacted on social media accusing Pedro Sánchez's government of persecuting him, despite the police action responding to a judicial order.

Quiles has several open procedures. Among them, a case for alleged hate crime against a person with disabilities, for which the Prosecutor's Office requests two years in prison and five years of disqualification from practicing journalism, and another for alleged crimes of revealing secrets and harassment against Beatriz Corredor, president of Red Eléctrica. He was also suspended for three months in Congress for recording and disseminating unauthorized images of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in a restricted area of the Chamber.