Goya Awards 2023: Fermin Muguruza responds to Vox’s criticism of his nomination


Vox criticized the candidacy of the Basque filmmaker and musician, whom they describe as “sinister” and “filoetarra”

Fermín Muguruza has highlighted this Saturday upon his arrival on the pink carpet of the Goya “the love of all of the Sevillian folks” in entrance of the “boycott of the Goya gala” 2023 that in his opinion Vox has tried to do criticizing the presence of the filmmaker and Basque singer, well-known for being the chief of the legendary band Kortatu.

The municipal spokesperson for Vox, Cristina Peláez, affirmed this week that the celebration of the gala in Seville “is one other chapter of the whitening of ETA”, by showing as a nominee for the title of Best Animated Film a piece by Fermín Muguruza, to which described as “sinister” and “filoetarra”.

“It is a far-right formation that tries to set political agendas, cultural agendas, that’s boycotting this Goya gala and that they’ve been fully omitted, they’re the one ones,” mentioned Muguruza, nominated for the animated movie “Black is Beltza II: Ainhoa”.

Vox’s criticisms didn’t cease there. The replicas of the Goya that adorn Seville awoke this week with some posters that hyperlink the Goya with the terrorist group ETA.

Despite this “rigidity” that, in response to Muguruza, that political get together has tried to generate, the singer has recounted a collection of conditions which have made him really feel supported and beloved in Seville.

“I get right here and the photographers begin to sing the ‘Sarri, sarri’, they inform me whoops Fermín”, he assured about his arrival on the Auditorium the place the Goya 2023 can be awarded. Yesterday, he recounted, a bookstore in La Alameda ” it was full of folks” and he had “all the love of all of the Sevillian and Triana folks” they usually had a “phenomenal” time.

He has additionally highlighted “all of the assist of the folks of the cinema, the technicians, actors”. “How am I not going to really feel joyful?”, he added, recalling that Antonio de la Torre, presenter of the gala, participates as one of many voices in his nominated movie and has informed him that in the event that they win they’ll have the ability to dance “Sarri , sarri” (from Kortatu) on stage.

“We come to get together, to have a superb time, and as Mario Benedetti mentioned, pleasure have to be defended as if it had been a trench,” he assured.