The journalist Ana Rosa Quintana (67 years old) has become one of the most important presenters on television in Spain. After more than four decades dedicated body and soul to communication, Quintana can boast of having made history and being a living legend of the small screen.
Since 2005, the woman from Madrid has presented her own television space, El Programa de Ana Rosa, with which she has garnered large audiences and leads her broadcast slot with a very good share of the screen.
Due to her incredible career in the world of journalism and her great work commitment, the municipal government of the Madrid City Council, headed by the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has proposed her to be awarded the Medal of Honor granted by the city .
Quintana will share this title that is awarded on May 15, 2013 with the singer Alaska and, posthumously, with the mayor of the city during the Civil War, Melchor Rodríguez García.
Inmaculada Sanz, spokesperson and municipal delegate for Emergencies and Security, has been in charge of announcing the news. Politics has explained that the candidacies have been proposed by “municipal groups and the different areas of government”, but that the list of winners is not yet closed, because new names may be added to those already announced.
Despite the fact that the three proposals are not yet final and that they must be approved in the next plenary session in April, Mayor Martínez Almeida has taken it for granted on his official Twitter profile, where he has addressed some nice words to Ana Rosa and Alaska: “The people of Madrid will award their Medal of Honor to two women who defend freedom of expression and of the press on a daily basis against censorship currents that have nothing to do with Madrid society.”
