Andalusian MP for Podemos, Martina Velarde, has responded directly to the sexist attacks she has been receiving for days on social media via an X message (formerly Twitter) in which he states that “given the reaction” he will stop wearing jackets. “I am happy with my appearance, my self-esteem is very high and I am free,” she told those who try to attack her for her appearance, adding: “Save the countryside.”
Velarde, leader of the purple party in Andalusia, has received various sexist and sexist comments throughout the week after she went up to the podium of Congress wearing… a white dress. On the night of September 11, after numerous attacks, the deputy published a video of the moment she was preparing to speak in the chamber with the following message: “The fascists who cried because of the criticism of Almeida’s wedding outfits, today they have become obsessed with my dress, well, stop crying, there are too many tears around here.”
Shortly before, that same Wednesday, Velarde had already responded to one of the comments insinuating that she was dedicated to prostitution with a photograph wearing that same dress and a simple message: “I wear it as I want (sic). You will tell the rest to the judge.
This Friday, he explained why he went up to the podium of the Lower House without a jacket: “The other day I was wearing a jacket and a dress, I took it off, I was hot and I didn’t put it back on, then I forgot it in the cafeteria. After that, and “seeing the reaction”, he has now decided to “leave aside the jackets” and the sexist harassment campaigns on social networks.
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