On ‘Late Xou’, Marc Giró returned to a question Julia Otero had answered in an earlier interview with ‘El País’. Asked whether she still voted against her interests in favour of her principles, the broadcaster said she did.
Otero said her outlook grew out of her childhood and the family she grew up in. Her parents were Galician immigrants who arrived in Barcelona and worked in the Poble Sec neighbourhood. Her financial circumstances had changed, she said, but her principles had not.
That distinction has a direct political consequence for her. Otero said a party promising lower taxes could benefit her financially, yet she would not base her vote on that.
She also pointed to people earning €800 who vote for parties opposed to raising the minimum wage. Otero described voters who act against their own economic interests as a sizeable group, though she said those who do so for principles like hers are less common.
Election coverage has also included Ayuso’s Valencia rally, after which the regional leader went to Casa Roberto. The election date given in the source material is 29 November. Ayuso attended the Partido Popular event at Valencia’s Mercado de Colón on 7 November, 22 days before the scheduled vote. Valencian president Juanfran Pérez Llorca and Valencia mayor María José Catalá were also there. She backed PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo as a figure able to bring together different political constituencies and urged supporters to unite behind the party, while criticising Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE. After the rally, Ayuso shared a traditional chicken-and-rabbit paella with Pérez Llorca and Catalá at Casa Roberto on Calle Maestro Gozalbo, near the market.
Otero, 67, has returned to present ‘Julia en la onda’ on Onda Cero at weekends. Her comments on ‘Late Xou’ came as she marked a personal milestone of her own: in September she celebrated with family and friends five years since the end of her cancer treatment.
She was diagnosed with cancer during a routine check in 2021 and initially kept the illness private. She later spoke publicly about it, saying she wanted to help others in a similar situation. The September gathering marked the five-year point she had been waiting to reach.
