A far-right media figure in Spain accused a government minister of taking drugs after pointing out “a line of cocaine” on an Instagram post – but it turned out to be the zipper on a washbag for period products.
Javier Negre, president of the far right media platform EDATV, shared a screen recording on Twitter over the weekend which appeared to show a white line on a table in front of Irene Montero, Spain’s Equalities Minister, in a post of hers.
Montero, who has been credited for introducing increased gender equality into Spanish law, was sitting next to her husband, Pablo Iglesias, former politician and co-founder of the left-wing Podemos party.
“Now we find this mysterious line,” Negre tweeted about the photograph. “They should take a test tomorrow to clear up any suspicions.”
The post was retweeted more than 1,000 times, and the claim was repeated by Negre’s media network EDATV as well as other right-wing media outlets and Twitter accounts.
Irene Montero, who is part of Spain’s left-wing coalition government, has been the driving force behind a slate of new legislation expanding gender equality in Spain. In February, the Spanish parliament approved changes to sexual and reproductive rights meaning that 16 and 17-year-olds could, for the first time, access abortion care without their parents’ consent. It also approved paid menstrual leave for workers and the right for any citizen over 16 to legally change their gender without medical supervision.
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