They have never been seen together, but it is one of the most anticipated photos, probably also for them: Jorge Javier Vázquez and Pedro Sánchez. Well, next December 11, the photo will become a reality.
After more than a month away from the spotlight, Jorge Javier Vázquez returns to the public scene with the help of Pedro Sánchez. He will be in charge, together with the journalist Ángeles Caballero, of presenting the President of the Government’s new book, Tierra Firma (Ed. Peninsula) in Madrid, according to Lecturas.
The affection between the presenter and Sánchez has been made visible by both on several occasions. Memorable was that afternoon when Pedro Sánchez went live on Sálvame. Jorge Javier Vázquez released one of his striking speeches against El Toro de La Vega. In that speech, the presenter showed his disappointment with the PSOE. At that time – in 2014 – Pedro Sánchez had recently been elected general secretary of the party and, as he himself reported in his previous book Manual de resistance, upon hearing the presenter so indignant with the El Toro de la Vega party and making his boredom visible, With the game, Sánchez was clear: he picked up the phone and called. According to him, it was never his intention to go live and he only wanted to talk one on one with the presenter. Evil tongues say that he knew perfectly well what he was doing.
That call in which Sánchez promised Jorge Javier Vázquez that he would “never” see him in a bullfight was a masterful communication move. Sálvame was the most watched program in the afternoon slot and with a very sweet target for politicians, those over 60 years of age. Sánchez himself acknowledged it some time later: “Even if it were true that Sálvame is only seen by older and uneducated women, how much is their vote worth?”
Less than a month ago, when Pedro Sánchez was sworn in as president, Jorge Javier Vázquez published a message on in which he appears in a swimsuit, next to a beach bar and on the beach.
It was the president himself who revealed, for example, that he had telephoned Jorge Javier when he found out that Sálvame was cancelled. “He seems like a great guy to me. He is a very intelligent guy, he has a lot of judgment. I hope he returns to television. He is a guy who communicates very well.”
And it was not the only praise for the presenter. “It seems to me that Jorge Javier Vázquez is a television monster,” said the president in Lo de Évole. A mutual admiration that today has become even more evident when Vázquez was chosen to present his book.
In addition to the clear link between Sánchez and the presenter, the presence of Ángeles Caballero also unites Jorge Javier with the journalist, since the presenter was in charge of prologue to the book published by Caballero a few months ago.
The presentation of Sánchez’s book will not only mark the first public meeting between president and presenter, but also the return to the front line of Jorge Javier Vázquez. After the cancellation of Chinese Tales, Jorge Javier Vázquez decided to take a break and get away from all the media noise. The presenter has been traveling and enjoying the calm of not being in the spotlight. Almost two months after that, Jorge Javier Vázquez returns through the front door with a meeting that few could imagine.
Tierra Firma, written, like Manual de Resistance, by the journalist and former congressman Irene Lozano and with an Obama-inspired title and cover, it is a first-person chronicle of the president. Almost everything in this book is in his first person. Pedro Sánchez starts with his 23J paella and goes back to the regional debacle two months earlier to justify his decision to bring forward the general elections.
In this new book, Pedro Sánchez Sánchez defines himself as “a politician with convictions” and justifies what, according to him, are not lies but “changes in political position.” “There are issues that a president must address with the utmost rigor when they arise, weighing all the reasons, the consequences and the objectives that are intended to be achieved. That is not being Machiavellian, as I have also been called, but responsible,” he delves into the book.
