Popular festival and Vox approved in the Valencian Cortes the first parliamentary defeat in media journal that the socialist government Pedro Sanchez is determined to impose. The initiative was presented by the Socialist Parliamentary Group in a document that covers up to eight points in terms of institutional publicity for the phase of resolution proposals after the general policy debate, which ended late on Friday evening. PP and Vox overthrew him with their votes.
The general policy debate in the Valencian Cortes lasted almost 23 hours. Of these, almost half this Wednesday. And the rest, this Friday. It ended late in the evening of this last day. A day in which the proposed resolutions were debated.
One of them, in which the socialists included in their proposals regarding institutional advertising a point in which they requested the creation of a media registry, something that had already been announced a few days before by the Spanish government.
In the debate in the Valencian Cortes, the turn to respond to this question was assigned, by the PP, to the deputy from Alicante. Jose Juan Zaplana. The latter, as can be seen in the video who illustrates the information, rejects this file and ends his intervention by looking at the socialist bench and declaring: “Tattoo this: freedom“.
The Valencian PSOE media register
Concretely, in the sixth point of this block dedicated to institutional advertising, the socialists proposed the “Creation of a Valencian Community Media Registry and the delegations” in this Autonomy “of state or international media, with information on their ownership and advertising investments”.
In the seventh, “the obligation for the Generalitat Valenciana to publish annually the advertising investments made, specifying which media are used and for what purpose.”
And, in the eighth, “eliminate subsidies “to the media that spread fake news and cover messages of hate and denial as a tool to protect the truthfulness of information, transparency, plurality, accountability and democracy.”
The PP’s energetic response: “Freedom”
The MP popular It was José Juan Zaplana who took it upon himself to provide the answer to this question. And he warned that the entire proposal, eight pages long, was a “catch-all”, but “not circumstantial”.
José Juan Zaplana argued that what the Valencian PSOE was trying to do was “try to go unnoticed”, which he called “its real intention”, which, as he explained, is “follow the big boss, Mr. Sánchez and his project of democratic degenerationproposing to create a “media registry” in the Valencian Community.
Whose objectives, according to the popular deputy, were: “supervise, control and even threaten the mediato its professionals with subsidies and institutional advertising, as indicated in their own proposal, marking the media and journalists, in their own way”, which, as José Juan Zaplana explains, is “like that of the Venezuelan dictatorship of Maduro and the suitcases of the airports. Those, you already know them. And the illegal visits to the embassies. And, with that, try to make sure that no one discovers or talks about their relationships. Faced with all this, José Juan Zaplana advocated providing the media with ” independence and freedom“.
The proposal was finally rejected by the House with the votes, as the Popular Party and Vox said. But what is important is that the initiative, even if it is only partial, is already being developed. independent rooms.
