Juanma Moreno, President of the Government of Andalusia, This Wednesday, he was clearer than ever in his defense of journalism, media and freedom of the press. One sector, the journalismwhich is in the target of Pedro Sánchez. Moreno, in this sense, spoke of the “regulatory fever” undertaken by Sanchez with media measures included in the so-called Action Plan for Democracy and warned against the risk of turning “personal problems” into “battle against the press.”
Moreno spoke these words during his speech in Seville at the opening ceremony of the VI Andalusian Investors Dayorganized by the newspaper El Confidencial, which will be closed by the Minister of Economy, Finance and European Funds, Carolina España.
“Politicians are subject to criticalwhich is sometimes voracious and sometimes can seem unfair to us. There are days when I like more what I read in the newspapers, what I hear on the radio or what I see on television and days when I don’t like it or like it less, but I obviously respect it because it is part of the freedom of expression. “What cannot happen to you is that you get up in the morning with the intention of intervening in the press,” said the head of the Andalusian setting.
Without at any time expressly mentioning Pedro Sanchez, Dark warned that “every politician I can remember who has turned a personal issue into a battle against the press has ended up virtually the same way” and stressed that “since Nixon “There are many examples.”
After regretting that today “something similar is happening in Spain” because “the personal problems of a senior executive coincide by chance with the regulatory fever of the press”, the President of the Council indicated that “it seems bad to him, personally, I do not like it and it generates a lot of doubts, uncertainties and distrust in me” because “a government is not the type to say that it is a half and it is a pseudo-media nor to hand out cards to journalists themselves telling them whether they are good or bad.
“And even less if it is a Government in difficulty because of the news that, precisely, comes out of the press because there are realities that are told,” he added. Dark before expressing his support for a “free, independent and plural” organization whose information work “is of vital importance for our democratic system.” “The press is a counter-power that also helps those of us who lead and have responsibility to follow a straight path and for citizens to have different versions of the information, of the approach to a problem, so that we can also improve,” he concluded.
