“No, no, no… this is not a dialogue, it’s a press conference… come on! more questions”with a more than annoyed tone and countenance, the mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero, answered a question made by the journalist Javier H. Rodriguez, editor of the The Jump Newspaper and former collaborator of elDiario.es.
The journalist’s question about the hiring of a Guns n’ Roses concert by the Vigo city council and that the Prosecutor’s Office is going to investigate has caused a clash over the formulation of questions and the answers given between the mayor and the journalist.
At the editor’s insistence that the councilor of Vigo give him an answer, Abel Caballero built a wall with a “That question is already answered” while he emphasized, from the lectern with a microphone, that the call was not about a dialogue and urged him to formulate his question (“ask two questions”). Then the mayor gave the well-known response “it’s already answered.”
“That’s already answered, that’s my answer (…) I am telling you that it has already been answered”, Caballero insisted on the perseverance of the editor to give him an answer.
Javier H. Rodríguez tells him that he has another question, but the mayor passes the turn to the journalists connected telematically to the press conference after the Consello and says that no more face-to-face questions (“they are finished”) and asks to be asked “telematic questions”.