“Welcome to Horizonthanks for sharing this space of freedom“, he began by saying Iker Jimenez at the beginning of last Thursday’s program, with the cup in his hand and raising it in the air, victorious. In spite of all the controversies in which he has been involved as a result of the DANA and have even provoked the withdrawal of ING advertisingthe presenter has risen above it all, he has made it clear that has the backing of Mediaset and thanked his “millennial army”, which he described as “an army of light”.
After admitting that his program has “been in the limelight” as a result of the hoaxes about the Bonaire shopping center parking lot, but without referring directly to them or denying them, he wanted to give “this chapter as finished”, before defending that his program “was clean of dust and chaff“and after mentioning the video of a chronology of events made by a colleague of his team, editor of Cuarto Mileniowhich has 6 million views on the X network.
“Many people have called this house asking if Iker was going to continue or not.“Jiménez began by explaining, before addressing directly to Alessandro SalemCEO of Mediaset, to whom he has put his head on a platter, and has made it clear that he has his backing.
“From the first moment he tells me on the phone, while I am in Valencia: ‘Iker, I’m with you’.Do you know what is important? That he had neither the video, nor the data, nor knew…. That is important. Managers are not just fearful people, as are other areas of communication, there are some with guts. They told me ‘Relax, I know what you’re like’. Because I was amazed at what was coming,” he said.
The presenter has thus dedicated the first minutes of the program to defend what he considered to be a campaign against him. “You know perfectly well what has happened. What has happened and no one expected? That you, my friends, of every condition, race, culture, ideology? The network, the people, have said ‘no, not this way’. Maybe because you knew that it was not the case of Iker Jiménez and my freedom. Because we are not talking about my freedom, we are talking about freedom in general, and around here, not“he said.
“To those of you who cancel. To those of you who have taken the networks as a battlefield. To those of you who intimidate companies. To those of you who know that many are fearful and will turn their ears…. enough is enough. Because we believe in freedom. Because we are fed up with machinations. Because you are always the same”, said Iker Jiménez about those who attack him.
In the face of these attacks, he has said, “a unique phenomenon” has arisen, a wave of support to which he wanted to thank. “The beautiful thing has been the supportwhich does not come from an order from me. Headlines, headlines, headlines… very clear maneuvers, you have seen it: we are going to suffocate this guy in another way, since we can’t, because he has some balls”, said the presenter.
Regarding the hoaxes, Jiménez has ironized that “now they already take the slogan that everything is a hoax”. “I am not going to ask for anyone’s head. Most of the media that have tried to take my head off today have eaten the hoax of the helicopter. It is a mistake, nothing happens,” he added shortly after.
Despite all this, the driver of Horizon wanted to give his opinion on what he called the “army of light” that has come to his defense. “This has been a movement of lovenot to me, not to us, but to that do not want there to be maneuvers to silence certain programs. or certain communicators. Having said that, I send a hug to everyone, even to those who have given us the most criticism, which I don’t care. And besides, we have been fortunate that this group, I repeat, it is not easy, that we were looking for a cascade of events. Everything has a reason. Everything is a tool. As you resist, they come back with another tool. And in this house, which will do things right and things wrong like anyone else, they told me: ‘I’m with you’. But not today, not tomorrow, at the beginning. And they have fulfilled it. With which, I feel indebted. People of honor, period“He concluded before giving the floor to Carmen Porter.