This Thursday, the festival known as Madrid Puro Reggaeton Festival released a statement saying that just 24 hours after the event was held at the Wanda Metropolitano, the Community of Madrid notified them that they were withdrawing the license to perform it.
Will the festival take place?
The festival, which was to start this Friday, July 15 and last until Saturday, July 16, was to be held at the Caja Mágica in Madrid at first, but, in the end, for production reasons alleged by the organizers, it was moved to the Metropolitan of Wanda. This is where the source of the problems would be, since, like the The community of Madrid in a press release, after notifying the change of location, the necessary conditions would not have been met.
The festival had on its poster Daddy Yankee as a visible head, in one of his last concerts in Spain, in addition to many established artists such as Natti Natasha, Gente de Zona, Juan Magán, Ñengo Flow, Eladio Carrión or Bad Gyal, among others.
For its part, the organizing company received with “surprise, amazement and helplessness” the announcement of the Collectivity not to authorize the festival “with the historic farewell of Daddy Yankee and 35,000 people waiting”.
In this sense, she defended that a complete security and emergency plan was presented and that if the deadlines were exceeded by the promoter, it was because of the bureaucracy required by the Administration. “The administration requested more and more documentation and the festival team needed time to satisfy these requests,” the statement said.
The Community of Madrid stands firm
In the statement made public by the Community of Madrid, there is little doubt: “Actions have been carried out in accordance with current security regulations, following the usual procedure for holding this type of show and taking into account that the plan presented by the organization of the Madrid City Council does not in any way meet the necessary security requirements, as indicated in the report of the Municipal Police of Madrid”, after which the regional government reports the change of place without the necessary time:
“The organization applied for a new permit on Monday, July 11, and the document entered the regional government on Tuesday, July 12. For this type of event, the minimum application period is one month, so it was out of deadline,” he said. the community.
From the organization of the festival, they criticized that the announcement arrives “by surprise” 24 hours after the opening of the doors and with the stage set up, the sound equipment installed and the staff finalizing the preparations. “There are more than 100 accredited national and international journalists,” laments the organization.
In this sense, the organizing company has assured that it cannot understand or accept that the announcement to prevent the celebration of the festival is due to “technical problems” since the Wanda Metropolitano is a space that regularly hosts sporting events and music with a higher volume. help.
“We have no doubt that there is a clear lack of will within the regional administration for this event to take place,” the company stressed.