• Politics The Generalitat of Catalonia saves the related media with advertising from the economic crisis due to Covid-19

The distribution of advertising by the Generalitat of Catalonia last year, with an increase of more than four million euros compared to 2019 despite the economic crisis caused by the pandemic, has caused rejection by representatives of the opposition. They consider that the Government favors media related to the pro-independence parties and that is why they emphasize that it is an unequal distribution of the 33.2 million euros of the last year, without taking into account the actual dissemination of each of the media who has received this investment.

According to the Report of the Advisory Commission on Institutional Advertising of the Generalitat, in the last five years the figure allocated to this item has gone from almost 24 million euros in 2015 to 29 million in 2019, with an increase to 33, 2 million in 2020. It is the last report published by this body after two years without doing it. This was precisely one of the criticisms of the opposition to the Government during the debate in the Parliament prior to the approval of a motion presented by the group of PSC-Units for the Catalan Executive to present in the Economy and Finance commission, in two months , the criteria for the distribution of resources to the media in relation to the dissemination of institutional advertising. These criteria must be "clear, precise and transparent", according to the approved motion.

The president of the Catalan PP, Alejandro Fernández, assured that “we have always been in favor of the suppression of subsidies to the media, but if they are given, they must allow all the media to participate, and it is evident that in Catalonia they are only receiving subsidies the media ideologically close to the Government ».

For his part, Joan Garriga, spokesman for the VOX parliamentary group in Catalonia, remarked that "the Generalitat stole more than 33 million euros from the Catalans in 2020 to buy wills in the media."

That is why he added that “it is a shame that with everyone's money the businesses of a few are financed and this explains why the most common media in Catalonia are dedicated to rallying the separatists and belittling those who best fight them;

VOX ».

The Cs deputy, Nacho Martín Blanco, said that "it is scandalous that the Government has increased this year, in the midst of a pandemic, the money allocated to institutional advertising and, above all, the lack of transparency and arbitrariness in the distribution of that money They don't even hide anymore: they water the friendly press with public money and they despise the media that do not bow to the dictates of the

process

orchestrated from the highest levels of regional power. "

"And above all, the PSC tries to make us believe that it is doing something to combat this scandal, but in practice it does not question the true root of the problem, which is none other than the lack of control capacity that parliamentary groups have over the distribution of money. The PSC clings to superficial issues for not questioning the major, "remarked the deputy who added that" what needs to be done is to abolish the institutional advertising commission, which is the body of supposed control of the distribution of institutional advertising, and oblige the Government to appear directly before the Plenary of Parliament to render accounts on the criteria applied to the process of distribution of institutional advertising. As long as we do not change the control mechanisms,this will continue to be a drain on corruption and covert buying of wills. "

Regarding specific cases of aid that the report indicates yesterday, the Generalitat wanted to qualify some of the subsidies.

From the Department of Economy it was noted that the counselor Jaume Giró sold the newspaper T

he New Barcelona Post

when he took up his position in the Government and that, in addition to 2020, the digital also received publicity when it was owned by Foment del Treball.

In addition, the Giró department complied with the publication of last year's report a few days ago.

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