Díaz claims more support for culture together with Almodóvar and Carlos Bardem and criticizes that the right discredits it

Proposes a box in the income statement to help finance cultural projects

The leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has claimed the value of Spanish culture, the need to support it with public resources and prevent it from being "instrumentalized", at the same time that she has called for combating the "trap" story of PP and Vox that it is a "subsidized" sector to discredit it.

He has also explained that in order to strengthen support for culture, his candidacy includes measures such as incorporating a cultural box in the model 100 of the IRPF declaration to finance cultural projects, together with the promise to allocate 1% of the total General Budgets to the cultural field over a four-year horizon, a reform of the subsidy system and tax incentives for patronage.

This was conveyed during a ceremony held at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, coinciding with the closing of the electoral campaign with representatives of the culture sector, where the film directors Pedro Almodóvar and Agustín Díaz Yanes, the actor and writer Carlos Bardém, the activist and writer Alana Portero, and the screenwriter, journalist and writer Bob Pop also stood out.

Along with them, the actresses, Cecilia Gessa, Marisa Paredes and Consuelo Trujillo, the interpreter Xoel Fernández, the actor and directors Achero Mañas, the producer and brother of Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodovar, the director Ana Martínez, the director of the Filmoteca Chema Prado, and the film producer Pry Oria, among others, have also come to support Díaz.

During her speech, the second vice president also stressed that in order to move towards a better country, she aspires to emulate the support that France gives to its artistic industry and culture, which is essential to "widen democracy" and "freedom" since "there is nothing more fundamental after eating than feeding ourselves as human beings".

"Let's put an end to the story of the extreme right, of the threat of a lifetime, but also the one of the right that is the same but making it precarious (...) Public resources are for culture as well, as they are for other types of activities," he launched to demand that PP and Vox "enough" to continue with the story that culture is subsidized to discredit it.

In turn, Díaz has charged harshly against the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of whom he has said that he only promulgates "lies, censorship and trampling on the rights of women and the LGTBI collective."

CULTURE STRENGTHENS DEMOCRACY

In turn, it has apologized to the sector as heir to previous governments, given that the main rules governing culture date from the year 85, which shows the "absolute neglect" of the public administration to date.

However, he has highlighted that this legislature has begun to change the Artist Statute and give more protection to cultural professionals during the pandemic.

Later, Díaz praised that the culture sector was important in the fight against Francoism and that its activity is a "tool" for social equalization in any of its disciplines, since it encourages "free thought" and that reinforces democracy.

Of course, he has also regretted that culture has been used as "props" and that "it cannot be exploited by anyone", since freedom of expression must prevail above all else.

To do this, Sumar's candidate has opted to design her own tax system for the world of culture, with measures included in her program, and has recognized differences with the PSOE in the current audiovisual law, which is not her model and that is why they voted differently in Congress.

CULTURE AS A "DAM" OF THE FAR RIGHT

During the event, Bob Pop also intervened to highlight that culture allows us to put an end to the "rise of fascism", that it is necessary to invest in it and that the elections are at stake if the censorship that local and regional governments are applying where the "ultra-right" is present continues. Even in his case, he has warned that he fears cancellations of a monologue that he displays throughout the country.

On the other hand, he has denounced the precariousness that affects culture and has confronted that while the extreme right conceives it as a "propaganda power", the left "has always been afraid of being labeled interventionist."

Finally, Alana Portero has denounced that 90% of the actors and actresses in the country are unemployed most of the time and that there cannot be Spanish neighborhoods and towns without cinema or theater.

In turn, he has insisted that these elections are at stake for culture to be a "dam of contention" to the extreme right, which conceives of the sector as "propaganda". Therefore, he has called for "solidity" and resources in all cultural and artistic branches, since people are "thirsty" to delve into them.