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Politicians and journalists have lamented this Monday

the death of Jesús Quintero

, whom they have claimed as a "teacher" and "a benchmark for TV journalism" who "will always have a place in the memory of the Spanish".

"The 'Loco de la Colina' will always be a benchmark on television for his personality, his magnificent interviews and his way of understanding communication,"

Pedro Sánchez

assured on Twitter.

The president of the Junta de Andalucía,

Juanma Moreno

, has fired, also through a Twitter message, the "master of communication" recalling that he received the Andalusian Medal and "raised the genre of the interview with the domain of the word, silences and a style of its own".

"May the land be light to you, teacher Jesús Quintero", the spokesman for the Parliamentary Group of Podemos,

Pablo Echenique

, has expressed on the same social network , while the leader of Ciudadanos,

Inés Arrimadas

has assured that the "unclassifiable" and "free" journalist "will forever have a place in the collective memory of the Spaniards" because "he stamped his own stamp on all his radio and television programs".

"There was never such a sane madman," said the spokesman for the Esquerra Republicana in Congress,

Gabriel Rufián

, after announcing the death of the legendary presenter of

"The Madman on the Hill"

Colleagues by profession have also published messages for the death of Quintero, such as the journalist

Jesús Cintora

, who has branded the Cadiz "reference of journalism on TV".

"It changed the night radio. Filling it with beauty and warmth. In those 80's of harsh changes it was a reference light", journalist

Rosa María Artal

has written , while journalist

Mara Torres

has given "thanks" to the "master ".

Likewise,

Manolo Lama

has referred to Quintero as

"the sanest journalist"

he has ever met and has trusted that now he can "reconnect with his favorite characters."

Jesús Quintero

, creator of multiple radio and television formats, received more than two hundred awards, among which the Ondas Internacional, the King of Spain award for journalism or the Award for journalistic originality stand out.

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