Valladolid (EFE) of the awards”, which were created to recognize “the worth and contribution of the best Castilians and Leonese by birth and adoption”.
According to a joint statement, it is a decision that has not been easy, “because we share and value the essence with which these awards were born and have been developed throughout these almost 40 years.”
Archive image of the Castilla y León Awards ceremony. EFE/Nacho Gallego
In addition, both unions have valued in their press release “the human and professional quality” of the winners who have received, since 1984, “meritoriously their awards”
However, they emphasize that in this 2022 edition, in which the Ministry of Culture is in the hands of Vox, “the identity of these awards has been distorted, as is the case with everything in which they are involved.”
Bullfighting modality
They criticize that the bullfighting modality has been added to the six existing ones and that a writer (Fernando Sánchez Dragó) has been awarded who, in their opinion, “was a champion of a denialist ideology, which curtails freedoms, anti-feminist and anti-union”.
Finally, they stress that the CCOO and UGT cannot “bless” with their assistance an act in which it is evident that the Ministry of Culture “has destroyed” the principle of some prestigious awards that, until now, valued an institution such as the Junta de Castilla y León, “and the stature of so many award-winning men and women”. EFE