The Government’s decision to modify the conditions for the election of the RTVE Board of Directors yesterday unexpectedly surprised the opposition parties. The renewal of part of the control body of the public entity was pending, but PP and Vox recognize that they did not conceive this step of the Executive. For them, the announcement that Óscar López made from the table of the Council of Ministers is nothing more than a new movement to take “absolute control” of the corporation, just as he did before with the CIS, the Constitutional Court, the Bank of Spain and many other public organizations. Now, the Executive expands the number of seats on the Board of Directors to accommodate all its partners and also facilitates their election, allowing Congress to do so by absolute majority.
The first to voice this alarm was the spokesperson for the Popular Party in Congress, Miguel Tellado: “Taking into account the Government’s policy with the takeover of the institutions, it seems that they are going for one more,” he alarmed after learning of the Executive’s announcement. The PP acknowledged that they did not yet have the details of what was approved by the Government, but they also had no doubts about its intentions. «They want absolute control of RTVE. “It doesn’t look good”Tellado insisted, then recounting the entire list of institutions that in his opinion the PSOE has colonized from the Moncloa Palace.
On Génova Street, a person from the hard core of Alberto Núñez Feijóo He admitted that there had never been “real contacts” from the Government for the renewal, but they did not expect this ‘decree’. The polarization that characterizes current politics did not facilitate an agreement for renewal, but in the PP they did not anticipate this either. “Hallucinatory”repeated several popular parliamentarians, reports Emilio V. Escudero.
In Vox the feeling yesterday was no different. Those of Santiago Abascal They have always been very combative with the “control” of the public entity and now they will study “all measures” at your disposal to combat this new “invasion” by the Executive and its partners at RTVE. “We are facing the umpteenth cacicada of the Government to give power to its separatist partners and heirs of ETA,” denounced party sources. Vox accused the Moncloa Palace of trying to shield the Board of Directors of the public corporation around “the Frankenstein majority” that led to the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. And not only that, but they want to do it by leaving Vox out – Óscar López said that they will talk to all the groups except them – and “skyrocketing public spending” by increasing its members from ten to fifteen. “Spanish people cannot continue to pay with their taxes for the largest partisan propaganda apparatus of this Government,” Vox denounced.
But those of Abascal did not save the popular ones from criticism and They accused the PP of “complicity”“which agrees everything with this infamous Government that it permanently whitewashes and legitimizes.” “He has dedicated himself to ceding power to the ideological sectarianism that governs the RTVE corporation and marketing with it for partisan interests absolutely far from the general interest,” Vox accused.
Expand plurality
In any case, the Government’s decree was not received with enthusiasm by its coalition partners either. He Sumar spokesperson in Congress, Íñigo Errejónrecognized that what was approved It is not your “ideal model”. They wanted to “advance more in plurality, independence and transparency,” Errejón explained, although accused the PP of being the culprit of the current blockade and accepted this decree so that “the boycott ends and plurality expands” allowing there to be “representation of the variety of the parliamentary arc.”
Also Can He celebrated that the Government has taken a step that allows “recovering” “democratic stability” in the corporation “after a year of disorder.” And his co-spokesperson in Congress Javier Sánchez Serna He wondered if the same could not have been done with the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) so that “it would not depend on the right.” “I think it shows what some of us said, and that was that there were democratic majorities in the chamber to do different things, it was possible.”
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