Goya 2023: The PSOE and the PP turn to cinema in an election year

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Goya Gala at night and meeting the next morning.

It is the same agenda that the president of the Government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, and the leader of the main opposition party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, president of the Popular Party, will share.

This Saturday both have coincided in the 37th edition of the

that are held in Seville.

And this Sunday both will attend electoral acts in the Seville capital.

Each with his party.

Despite the fact that Sánchez and Feijóo tend to disagree on the issues that are the focus of political news, such as the law of

or the economy, they have offered a similar discourse on cinema.

"It has been a

for Spanish cinema, not only the numbers of tickets sold say so, but also the quality of this new generation of filmmakers, who demonstrate the vitality of Spanish cinema and culture," Sánchez told TVE.

"We should

of Spanish cinema, there is a generational change, there are some fantastic artists," said Núñez Feijóo, who considers cinema to be a "brand of Spain."

It is "industry, it is culture, it is economy, it is jobs, it is

and we have to take care of it and be proud", he added.

Moreno and Feijóo with their partners, on the red carpet. THE WORLD

Pedro Sánchez also had a few words for the film director

, who died one day before the gala in which he was to receive the Goya de Honor for his career in more than 50 films.

"The death of Saura has to make us politicians see that we have to make visible that affection, that recognition, not only national, but international."

The next Council of Ministers will award the deceased film director the Grand Cross of Alfonso X el Sabio, to "recognize the career of a giant in Spanish and world cinema."

In addition, President Sánchez recalled his Government's support for the cinema sector: "Public administrations have to support with resources, facilitate work", with laws such as the

that is currently in process and for which he has entrusted to have the necessary parliamentary support.

Andalusia, permanent headquarters?

The president of the Andalusian Government, the

Juanma Moreno, also present at the Goya gala, has tried to bring the ember to his sardine and has asked the Film Academy for Andalusia to be the "permanent venue" of the ceremony of the awards, after they have been held twice in Seville and another two in Malaga.

Moreno has been "proud" that Seville and Andalusia are "the great hosts of the great festival of Spanish cinema" and has stressed that the Andalusian community "is a great

, because "it has desert, sea, and snow, among others".

Regarding the attendance at the gala by politicians from different parties, Moreno said that cinema

: we have seen political leaders conversing amicably. Hopefully it will continue like this in the future."

Of course, there have been some

, something "normal in an electoral year" like this, Moreno has confessed.

In three months the municipal elections will be held, there are also regional ones in almost all the communities and at the end of the year they will be the general ones.

coalition government unit

In addition to the messages about the cinema, Pedro Sánchez has taken advantage of his attendance at the Goya gala to stage the union of the coalition government, which these weeks has been convulsed by the reform that the PSOE wants to carry out of the law of

before the reduction of sentences for aggressors.

He has done so by arriving at the ceremony accompanied by the Vice President of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, and the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero.

Along with them, there was also the Minister of Culture, Miquel Iceta, and the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero.

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