Concepción Cascajosa, interim president of RTVE, appeared this Tuesday in the joint control commission of the public entity in the Senate. And it has done so with separate reports from the State Attorney’s Office, which it presented yesterday in the Council and ABC announced, about his possible dismissal, which he has made an effort to avoid until the recent approval by the Government of the royal decree law which modifies the system of election and composition of the governing body of public television and radio to double the councilors elected by Congress from 6 to 11 and without the need for consensus with the opposition. This will allow the Government to strengthen its control over RTVE and accommodate its left-wing and pro-independence partners in this body. And, furthermore, better paid than ever. “It is not my responsibility to make an assessment of this royal decree law,” Cascajosa explained, avoiding the question from Guillermo Mariscal, a Vox deputy, who asked about “the decree” that was carried out in the Council of Ministers and that modifies the system. of election and the composition of the body.
“Absolute respect for the decision-making sphere of the Congress and the Senate,” Cascajosa indicated again when Eduardo Carazo Hermoso explained that the new president “placed by the PSOE will have hundreds of millions that come from money that comes from everyone” and “tries to corner the Senate”. “They want absolute control of RTVE to avoid talking about the corruption that surrounds the PSOE,” the deputy acknowledged, to which the president responded: “I have always defended the obligation to defend independence. “I ask at all times for respect for the professional autonomy of colleagues in information services so that they carry out their work independently.”
The president has reiterated on several occasions that she would not refer to the royal decree law, although she did speak about the importance of rewarding the Council. «I do not understand that in some cases he expresses his opinion and in others he does not. Bad practices. Nobody talks about Begoña Gómez’s businesses, the decree is an insult to the majority of shareholders, who are the Spaniards who support them with their taxes,” said Macarena Montesinos, PP deputy.
During her speech, the president responded to the questions posed to her about the regulations of the Board of Directors, to which she appealed for a change to that document. «A profound reform is necessary and it is one of the first tasks that the new Council must assume“, acknowledged the president before the deputy of Sumar Francisco Sierra Caballero, who stated that “twisting the telematic vote”, referring to the failed vote last October to vote on the continuity or dismissal of Cascajosa, only “results in the lack of credibility of the entity.
As ABC reported, sources familiar with the ordinary meeting of the council held yesterday, the one corresponding to this month of October, explained that Cascajosa presented a first report from the State Attorney’s Office favorable to his interests according to which, once that maneuver of the Government has come into force, the current board of directors can only handle ordinary matters, not one as important as the dismissal of its president. During his interventionCascajosa has not made reference to that report at any time in the Senate.
The oppositions have also been an issue that the deputies have raised. “My powers do not include lying and hiding information,” Cascajosa said regarding the information about the arrest of the RTVE worker for involvement in the leaking of opposition questions. RTVE did not mention who it was, but the media reported that it was the vocal member of the tribunal proposed by UGT. “The scandals in this house seem not to be enough for them and add this absurdity to the opposition,” said Tristana Moraleja Gómez, PP deputy. «There is little interest in covering up anything when it was evident that it had to be addressed in the police and judicial sphere. “We don’t want to cover up anything,” added the president.
The president has also spoken about the strike called by the workers on October 25 due to “the corruption of RTVE” after the failed oppositions, and the Republican Left deputy Francesc-Marc Álvaro Vidal questioned the practices carried out so far in the Corporation, which he considered “debatable”, and stated that the strike is “a symptom of alarm” about “the degradation of governance” of the entity. «It is difficult for me to assess a strike call, I have to express respect on the part of the union. Once notified of this call, the company sat down to negotiate and find a solution. The corporation has been giving a positive response to the demands», answered Cascajosa.
The president has made an assessment of her time as president so far. «I am satisfied. Patience is something I have been learning, it is enriching. “My arrival was hasty, in the middle of a complex Council, I wanted to work to overcome the main challenges we had such as oppositions, electoral processes and sporting events.”
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