Manu Sánchez turns 'Bella Ciao' into a plea for housing: "Shouldn't have kicked her out, kicked out..."

Manu Sánchez once again resorted to humor and music to address one of the social issues that is marking current events: access to housing. The presenter of El perro andaluz transformed Bella Ciao, the popular Italian song historically associated with resistance and also one of the most recognizable songs from La casa de papel, into a particular vindication of the protests of those camped in Sol for affordable housing.

The staging precisely featured several extras characterized as the robbers from the Netflix fiction. Sánchez took the melody to construct his own lyrics focused on rents, evictions, and the mobilization of those demanding solutions to the rising cost of housing.

"Shouldn't have kicked them out, kicked them out": Manu's response to the Sol protests

The song began by focusing on the organization of tenants and the protest taking place in Madrid. "They didn't expect what happened, shouldn't have kicked them out, kicked them out... The tenants are already tired, the people have organized in Sol", sang the presenter.

Throughout the performance, Sánchez introduced references to the situation of those who have difficulty accessing housing and the reaction that the mobilizations have provoked. "Now the campers bother you, shouldn't have kicked them out, kicked them out... That's what happens if ordinary people can't find a place to live", he pointed out in another of the stanzas.

The presenter also used the song to criticize speculation and vindicate protest as a tool for social pressure. "All our lives there has been speculation and bye bye, bye bye, well this time something has changed, people have said enough is enough", he intoned before launching another of the most forceful phrases of his intervention: "Spain is sold, rented, evicted and parceled out".

From rents to criticism against 'Horizonte'

The performance also ended up incorporating a reference to social rights and citizen mobilizations. "If the protest bothers you, you shouldn't have started it, started it... No right was given to us; it's the people who fought for it," sang Sánchez, turning the version of Bella Ciao into a plea in favor of those participating in the protests.

The musical monologue also served the presenter to respond to the criticism he claims to be receiving on social media for his political stances. Sánchez once again attacked the treatment that Horizonte gave to the controversy related to Maricarmen, whose situation after her eviction had been previously addressed on television.

The presenter referred to the Cuatro program with the ironic name of "Sale Borrosa" (It Comes Out Blurry) and questioned why the administrator of the company owning the home had been interviewed with a pixelated face. "Even if they do the pantomime of pixelating their very own brazen faces," he launched during his intervention.

With music, humor, and satire, Manu Sánchez thus once again turned the opening of El perro andaluz into a space from which to address current political and social affairs. On this occasion, the housing problem and the Sol protests were the common thread of a version of Bella Ciao that ended up transforming the well-known "no haberla echao, echao" into the chorus of his particular claim.

The jab at Ayuso for the elderly: "What's wrong with you, Isabel?"

The housing problem was not the only issue Manu Sánchez brought to his program. The presenter also once again addressed Isabel Díaz Ayuso directly, taking advantage of the International Day of Older Persons to question, with humor and irony, some of the actions of the Madrid president. "Seeing what you always have with the elderly, my question is: Did your grandmother hit you? What's wrong with you, Isabel, with older people?" he launched during his monologue.

Sánchez again used the case of Mari Carmen, the 87-year-old woman affected by an eviction, to build his criticism of Ayuso and even joked about the president's rental issues. He also rebaptized the leader as "Isabel Díaz Abuso" (Isabel Díaz Abuse) and strung together several references to older people, including one to presenter Juan y Medio: "If Juan y Medio catches you, he's going to give you hell". The satirical tone also extended to Ayuso's family roots and the vindication of her own grandparents.

The final segment was dedicated to the measures of the Community of Madrid for people over 100 years old. Sánchez ironized that those in their eighties seem like "kids" next to centenarians and took the situation to the absurd to question the age limit for aid. "If you want the aid, you have to arrive alive at 100 years old," he summarized, before closing the monologue by once again asserting the importance of the elderly and bringing back the figure of his own grandmother.