He Socialist Party proposed to the Association of Journalists of Aragon (APA) and the Professional College of Journalists of Aragon that coordinate jointly the electoral debates which will take place between the candidates for the presidency of the Government of Aragon during the electoral campaign preceding February 8.
This is how it was transferred PSOE Aragon to the two professional organizations in a letter that the organizing secretary and coordinator of the electoral campaign, Manuela Berges, sent Friday to the president of the APA and the College of Journalists, Isabel Poncela.
The letter is based on many requests received by the PSOE for holding debates and little time What does this bring them? “This accumulation of requests and the repetition of debates in such a short period of time would hardly provide substantially new elements to the electorate, and could also generate a dispersion of formats and messages that would not contribute to a clearer and more enriching public debate,” explains Berges in the letter.
The head of the PSOE Aragón electoral campaign recalls that the socialist candidate, Pilar Alegría, “has expressed interest in participating in both a debate with the heads of the list of the eight political groups represented in the Cortes of Aragon, as in a ‘face to face‘with Jorge Azcón’.
For the PSOE Aragón, offering this coordination to these professional bodies, “due to their professional, independent and representative nature of the entire sector, is the most appropriate framework to assume this coordination, providing credibility, neutrality and rigor to the process”. He also adds that “it would be up to the APA and the College of Journalists to specify the organizational details and the selection of moderators among professionals from the different Aragonese media.”
“The objective is to guarantee that no media is left behind and that all, public and private, are treated in the same way, without favoring one over the other,” they say in the letter. They add that “the debates are produced by the two public televisions and radios which operate in Aragon (CARTV and RTVE in Aragon), offering common signal to all interested media, so as to guarantee equal access, non-exclusion of any operator and fairness between journalists and the media.
“A joint coordination of debates would contribute to strengthening the principles of information pluralism, equal opportunities between political groups and democratic quality, by avoiding a excessive fragmentation of formatsmessages and audiences that could generate confusion among citizens,” the letter concludes.
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