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Madrid, May 4 (EFE).- Gabriela Cañas obtained the backing of Spain’s parliament on Monday to become the new head of the EFE news agency.FOOTAGE COURTESY OF THE SPANISH PARLIAMENT. SOUNDBITES OF GABRIELA CAÑAS, HEAD OF THE EFE NEWS AGENCY ON MONDAY:"The agency is itself a story of success and it would be arrogant and reckless to undertake profound changes that could put its brilliant path at risk." "I want to continue along this path reinforcing and increasing its multimedia contents and interesting projects, such as the ongoing Mobile Journalism.""EFE offers high-quality information, but it must adapt to the new formats the market demands; technology must be at the service of good raw material."
After two rounds of voting, Yaël Braun-Pivet, a member of parliament close to President Emmanuel Macron, is elected president of the French National Assembly, becoming the first woman to hold the position in France. IMAGES
Tunis, 25 Jun (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Mohamed Messara) The calm was the tone in the streets of Tunisia on Wednesday, a day after Tunisian President Kaïes Saied said that the national parliament constitutes "a threat to the country" and thereby justified his decision not to restore the democratic normality that he dynamited on July 25 by suspending his duties for a month, dismissing the head of the government, withdrawing the immunity of deputies and arrogate to himself exceptional powers.FOOTAGE OF THE STREETS OF TUNISIA
Tunisia, Aug 24 (EFE / EPA).- (Camera: Mohamed Messara) Tunisian security forces strengthened the protection of Parliament in the face of the prospect of protests unleashing after the announcement by the President of Tunisia, Kaïes Said, that he will maintain all the absolute powers that were granted and will not restore the democratic normality that was interrupted on July 25.FOOTAGE OF SECURITY MEASURES IN THE SURROUNDINGS OF THE TUNISIAN PARLIAMENT.
Madrid, May 1 (EFE) .- Wherever there is freedom of the press in the world, "scarcity is its greatest threat", a peril that affects both public and private media and that can only be tackled with "the structural strength of journalistic companies", says the president of Agencia EFE, Gabriela Cañas.INTERVIEW WITH GABRIELA CAÑAS, EFE AGENCY PRESIDENT