The newly released presence of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez at the Goya Awards Gala , held on Saturday, January 25 in Malaga, has caused many of the speeches of the guests to revolve around numerous requests to the Chief Executive related to more support for culture and cinema, a circumstance that has also focused the speech of the president of the Film Academy, Mariano Barroso, on the red carpet.

"The President of the Government would ask him to recognize the Spanish cinema the status he does not have recognized: that of strategic industry and that of collective for the present and the future. And that that translates into the corresponding measures," said Barroso in statements to journalists.

The 34th edition of the Goya 2020 Awards is held from 10 pm at the José María Martín Carpena Sports Palace in Malaga. This is the first time that the most important awards of Spanish cinema are held in Malaga and the third time they leave Madrid, after Seville and Barcelona, ​​in a ceremony that, like last year, will be conducted by Andreu Buenafuente and Silvia Abril as Masters of ceremony

The comedian Andreu Buenafuente, affirmed when he arrived that " the presence of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, should be normal" in the event to "support the cinema and the cultural industry".

"It is very good that the president of the Government of this country makes an appearance supporting film and cultural industry, and this, that we give it as a very extraordinary thing, I think it should be normal, govern who governs," he said Buenafuente as he passed the red carpet with his wife and co-host of the gala, Silvia Abril.

The presenters have also joked with giving him a 'big head' and asking him to make them ministers.

To the question of whether they are willing to repeat in future galas, he has indicated that, "if after seeing the gala you think we can do it again, you have to decide it, but you have to see the whole gala."

He has assured that with the Goya you enter "in a spiral of work in which there is no room for nerves, and when you return home you may faint."

The presenter has stressed that in the organization of the Gala of the Film Academy "everyone paddles in favor", to which Silvia Abril has replied that "rowing" is "a word that should not be said today", because Malaga "looks like Venice", alluding to flooding due to heavy rains.

April has indicated that both are "relaxed" and the nerves "will come fifteen minutes before" the start of the gala, and has acknowledged that they want to "start the show."

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