Mauricio Macri: "Our government does not enter the newspapers as thugs or spills of antennas"

The president of the nation, Mauricio Macri, said Sunday that "Argentina enjoys the greatest freedom of the press in its history", after the Inter-American Press Association (SIP) At his mid-year meeting, he stressed that the country was experiencing a "more favorable scenario for the profession" compared to many other countries in the region.

Macri appreciated that the agency has distinguished Argentina for the third year in a row for the total freedom of the press that prevails in the country "and badured that "The freedom of the press is absolute, so great that it has become transparent". In this sense, he warned that "it is worth remembering that what we are experiencing is the result of having forever abandoned the secret mechanisms used by previous governments to subjugate freedom."

Through social networks, the president sent a full message in which he said: "We do not accept that the image of the public is spat, we do not insult, do not participate in the newspapers, do not destroy them, we do not shoot down antennas, we do not do not create propaganda programs to attack those who think differently or use football to praise or persecute us ".

In the same vein, he said that his government "does not change the schedules of football matches to hurt the ratings of television programs" nor "buys means to intermediaries who escape the taxes. " He added: "We do not block newspaper trucks, we do not do anything against freedom of speech."

He spoke of the conflicting relations that Kirchnerism had with most media, especially during the two terms under which Cristina Kirchner had ruled.

"We said that our goal was to represent a profound change that already existed in the hearts of the people of Argentina and that manifested itself in almost every area of ​​life." Respect for freedom of expression and the press is possible. be the most important democracy, "said the head of state.

Macri said that "Never before has less money been spent on advertising than in this government" and that "directly said, it means that official advertising is not used as a means of domesticating the media or submitting journalists as before."

He also stressed: "We do not intervene and do not influence editorial decisions, we do not support and do not question the work of the media or press professionals, we do not disqualify, we do not We do not accept that journalists are "judged" on Plaza de Mayo, as it happened only 9 years ago. ".

The president defended the leadership of the national government in the matter based on the statements of Daniel Dessein, president of the newspaper La Gaceta and representative of Argentina before the SIP, according to which it exists in the country. increasing transparency, constant appearances by press officials and the elimination of harbadment practices suffered by journalists and the media in the previous stages ".