The President of the Government, Marga Prohensparticipated in the celebration of the third anniversary of OKBALEARES which took place at Palma Congress Centerwhere he thanked the director of OKDIARIO, Eduardo Inda, “its informative commitment to the Islands, to bring together this free, independent and critical journalism which makes OKDIARIO’s brand with local and local journalism, with the launch of OKBALEARES three years ago.”
The leader of the Balearic Executive declared that “for democrats without free and independent journalism, there is no democracy” and therefore assured that “her information and supervision work is essentialsince their duty is to ask the questions to which citizens demand answers.
It is for this reason that he stressed that even if some politicians do not like him, in a clear allusion but without naming him socialist spokesperson in Parliament, Iago Negueruelawho systematically refuses to answer OKBALEARES’ questions at each press conference, ““It is the duty of politicians to respect the work of journalists and to answer all questions, no matter how uncomfortable they may be.”.
The number one PP in the Balearic Islands recognized “the work of the entire OKBALEARES editorial team and the undeniable impulse that his new director offered him in recent months, Miguel Angel Arizamarking the news agenda in the Balearic Islands.
In the same spirit, he criticized the threat of gag the media of the president of the government Pedro Sanchezwith “Ministries of Truth, which treat citizens in a paternalistic manner, telling them what is true and what is a lie.”
“No, it is not up to us, politicians, to tell citizens how to differentiate what is true from deception”, but rather “to give them the tools, by training future generations to the highest standards, to have tomorrow”. free and critical citizens, capable of discerning for themselves“, he stressed.
Likewise, Prohens stressed that the celebration of this third anniversary of the newspaper takes place in a context moment of profound change in the Balearic Islands in which its autonomous government has been working for a year and in which “we respect our government program“, with our word given, with the change that the citizens demanded, to leave behind all these socialist policies, all these failed policies, which we are now canceling.”
The president addressed the star protagonist of this Thursday evening, the former president of the government Jose Maria Aznar, of the one who remembered that it was “reference of change by turning the page of socialist policies”, build “an exciting and credible alternative for Spaniards in a moment of detachment after more than a decade of socialism” and which demonstrated that “unity around a major center-right project like the People’s Party is the best recipe to stop and expel the left from powerwho brought a courageous policy of change, betting on individual freedom and economic freedom, which modernized our economy and helped prepare Spain for entry into the euro.
Also the chef popular noted those two mandates of Aznar at the head of government (1996-2004) a time when Spain regained its prestigepresence and influence at the international level, despite the harshest years of terrorism, remembering that he himself was the victim of an attack before entering the government.
“Far from those who fill their mouths with federalism to hide their concessions on equality among Spaniards while threatening the autonomy of the rest of the communities, Aznar believed in the state of autonomy enshrined in our Constitutionadvancing the fiscal and political autonomy of our autonomous communities. Of everything. “Not just one.”
After reaffirming that he will not allow the citizens of these islands to pay the bill for the fiscal independence of Catalonia and that he will not accept that equality between Spaniards is broken, with “the famous amnesty law”Prohens stressed that “we want to defend our criteria but in a multilateral way with all communities, because “We cannot accept bilateral agreements in hidden offices.”
“It’s easy to understand: if at the moment there are only three communities that contribute to the financing system, namely Madrid, the Balearic Islands and Catalonia – in that order – and Catalonia no longer contributes… who will pay the bill?asked the president of the Balearic Islands.
After emphasizing that there are many present and future challenges and debates in which the Balearic Islands have a lot to say, he described having OKDIARIO and OKBALEARES as “great news” to guarantee the essential plurality of the information in the Balearic Islands.
