The untimely departure of philosopher
Fernando Savater
from the newspaper El País in Spain is beginning to have greater implications.
Now, the writer
Félix de Azúa
informed the media's management
of his unwavering resignation
.
His decision was made
in solidarity with his former teammate
who fired him on January 22.
De Arzúa himself was the one who confirmed the news to
The Objective
, who explained that his determination arose after learning of Savater's dismissal for having criticized the "editorial drift of the newspaper", which he accused of being
"spokesperson for the worst democratic government in Spain." "
.
The writer is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), and published his texts in the most important newspaper of the Prisa Group since its foundation in 1976. As confirmed, his decision
was communicated by telephone to María José "Pepa" Bueno, director medium
.
For several years, De Arzúa's contributions to El País were weekly and his widely recognized columns generated controversies and discussions on social and political issues.
In fact, he has long disagreed with the policies implemented by the Spanish government.
And as a consequence of his departure from the newspaper's editorial line, the academic's columns went to the Culture section of El País.
Far from the political noise.
For a different opinion, their collaborations also went from weekly to biweekly and their last publication dates back to last Tuesday.
In addition to joining the Madrid newspaper together, Savater and De Arzúa crossed paths as professors at the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of the Basque Country in the 1980s.
Both Azúa and Savater were broad defenders of the democratic space and have long been against the editorial line of El País.
De Arzúa is the author of dozens of literary works that cover different genres.
He taught at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona and the University of the Basque Country, and directed the Cervantes Institute in Paris.
He has been a member of the RAE for almost nine years.
Savater had been fired from the newspaper last Monday, after the pre-publication of his book "Carne governed", by the Ariel publishing house;
in which he points directly to the newspaper where he worked as "spokesperson for the worst government of democracy."
In the seven paragraphs to which he refers to El País, Savater makes an analysis of what for him was the "evident decline" of the morning newspaper since the arrival of Pedro Sánchez to the presidency.
“From being a progressive, center-left newspaper, with the virtues and defects of the case, it became a government spokesperson and the worst Government that Spanish democracy has had since the death of the dictator,” Savater wrote in the publication.