• Communication: Ximo Puig paid 43,000 euros for being interviewed in 'The Guardian'

In the Balearic Government they are busy reviewing the games of recent years. Specifically, they seek payment to The Report Company , the company that placed in The Guardian the interview that in theory made prior payment to Francina Armengol.

"We know that the interview was done, what is not clear is that it will be paid," they say from the Government of Armengol . While they look for the bills, the Balearic president appears in the list of the regional presidents who would have paid to appear in the aforementioned British newspaper, according to the information revealed by The Economist.

From the economic newspaper they report that in addition to the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Ximo Puig (who spent 43,000 euros public to go out in The Guardian ), they were also interviewed by payment Francina Armengol; the former mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena; the president of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara; the former president of the Canary Islands Fernando Clavijo; and that of La Rioja, José Ignacio Ceniceros. They all have an interview published in the British newspaper that, because it was publicity, disappeared from the web when the agreed time had expired.

While reviewing the games, the Directorate General of Communication assures that "the Balearic Government does not pay for interviews " and that "institutional advertising has always been done by audience criteria, since 2015; neither sponsorships nor grants are granted."

The name of Francina Armengol has jumped this Thursday, after the economic digital unveiled last Wednesday that Ximo Puig allocated 43,000 euros to leave interviewed in The Guardian . Now it remains to be known how much money Armengol paid to appear in that same English newspaper, although from its Directorate General of Communication they say that they do not know how long it will take to find the item of said payment: find out if there was any government department involved and why. "

The same happens with the Armengol interview as with those of Ximo Puig and the rest of the regional presidents that in theory would have paid to be interviewed: if we try to access them, we can see that the url (the links) are broken and, in Instead of the interview, a message appears in which The Guardian explains that it has been removed because it was advertising content: "The policy of Guardian News and Media is to eliminate the content paid at the end of these agreements. Click here for more information about our commercial content guidelines. "

From the PP Parliamentary Group they have already rushed to ask for explanations about the controversial interview. The popular have registered a request for documentation to know if the Government paid for the president, Francina Armengol, to appear in the British newspaper, reports Europa Press.

As explained by the general secretary of the PP and deputy, Antoni Fuster, they want to have access to the complete file of that interview, to know what it has cost and if there have been similar interviews. Fuster has considered this fact "indecent" and has assured that Valencian President Ximo Puig has recognized the payment of 43,000 euros for a similar interview. "We want to know what this interview cost to self-pump, how it was processed and who negotiated it," he said.

"With the amount of communication advisors that Armengol has and with the situation of the public accounts, it seems indecent for us to spend this money in an interview," he said. For its part, the Government has assured that its communication policy is not to pay for interviews and does not know that it has been paid either from the Presidency or from any department.

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