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Daniel Forcada, Director of Communication and Marketing of Telemadrid, has been reprimanded by the Community of Madrid, his employer, after expressing his opinion on Twitter after the pandering that occurred in Spanish cities against King Felipe VI during his television speech to the nation. A "personal opinion" for which, after the dust, the dircom of the Madrid public radio television station apologized to those who had felt offended.

"The citizens turn their backs on the Monarchy. The institution's thermometer is red hot ...". A message, released from his Twitter account, accompanied by an image of those moments, in one more night of confinement.

Once the opinion of the Telemadrid dircom began to circulate, the Community of Madrid launched another tweet to make it clear that this institution "does not share at all Telemadrid's opinion that citizens turn their back on Monaqruía or that the thermometer over the King is red hot. " The Community of Madrid took the part, Daniel Forcada, for the whole, Telemadrid, the company he represents and for that reason he not only distanced himself but reproached him for his opinion.

The response of the Community of Madrid has provoked a debate that approaches more than a thousand opinions, and growing, on Twitter, one of the most used means in this period of confinement due to the coronavirus epidemic, which leaves our country close of 14,000 infected with Covid-19 and nearly 600 deaths and that, as President Pedro Sánchez has announced, "the worst is yet to come."

Immediately afterwards, Forcada apologized through the same account, in whose profile he identifies himself as "Director of Communication and Marketing for Radio Television Madrid. Ex of El Confidencial . Author of La Corte de Felipe VI y Anson, una vida al décover , This has also reopened the debate on whether a personal opinion (as he describes it) can be expressed through a professional account that is contrary to the opinion of your employers; because if it were on the line, even if it were personal, it would have gone unnoticed.

Forcada's solution was to delete the tweet and apologize to those offended by his words that questioned the support of the public for King Felipe VI, who in his television message said that "this virus will not defeat us, it will make us stronger as a society", after the casseroles heard from the balconies and windows, an hour after the widespread and massive applause to the Spanish Health professionals who are giving their lives for their patients.

This is not the first tension that exists between the Community of Madrid and its main medium, Telemadrid, in recent days. The PP threatened this Tuesday to ask for the resignation of the general director of the chain, José Pablo López , for his "institutional disloyalty" when stating that the regional government has made a "partisan use" of the General Advocacy of the Community of Madrid, while that the journalist has literally accused the regional president's team of trying to wear him down with excuses and even of trying to "spill his blood".

José Pablo López has defended in the Madrid Assembly that the members of the chain's management are not "critics", but "professionals" who try to act "in accordance with some principles" they learned while studying journalism. She has thus defended Ayuso's statements in an interview published on Sunday by EL MUNDO, in which President Isabel Díaz Ayuso said that she is the "only" regional leader who has "a television that is critical to her."

Shortly after the summer, the regional president assured that she was going to ask for "austerity" from Telemadrid because "it is not an essential public service" and she has to achieve audience quotas to justify her role.

Forcada, graduated in Journalism from the University of Navarra, was signed in June 2018 in El Confidencial , where he had worked as an editor for eight years, to take the lead in the communication of Madrid's public radio and television and be the interlocutor with the media communication.

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