Spanish Radio Television has a new president. José Pablo López will direct the public corporation for the next six years after obtaining the approval of Congress. He needed a second round this Thursday, when he could be elected by the absolute majority made up of the Government and its partners, with 178 votes in favor. PP and Vox have been absent from the vote with the excuse that the processing of the entity’s reform was not stopped a month ago on DANA day.
López has received the endorsement of Congress in a second attempt, after failing to reach the consensus of the two-thirds of the Chamber that the law contemplates for the first vote. The Government in fact recently promoted a reform of the RTVE law to consolidate the reduction of parliamentary requirements necessary for the renewal of the body and facilitate the appointment of the councilors and the president in a second round with an absolute majority.
With the election of the new president, the Government completes the renewal of the RTVE Board and puts an end to a long crisis that had its last episode months ago with the negotiation of the signing of David Broncano, with a dispute that resulted in successive resignations and resignations. of the governing body of the public entity. That mess put an end to the mandate of the previous president, Elena Sánchez, and also of José Pablo López as content director of the chain, who precisely now assumes command of the Corporation.
López, as content director, had been the main promoter of the idea of bringing Broncano to Spanish Television. The contract ended up being signed but it was done between tense negotiations that ended with his departure and that of the president and an interim period that had lasted until now.
To try to solve this situation and given the PP’s blockade of the negotiations to renew RTVE, the Government together with its partners promoted the new legal reform to allow the renewal of the management body with the current parliamentary majorities, and allow the Executive and its partners can determine who makes up the majority of the Council.
This reform expanded the number of councilors so that eleven were elected by the Congress and four by the Senate (previously they elected six and four respectively), so that several of the members of the investiture block have been able to propose their own names for the body.
With the changes that the Government has introduced, the possibility of Congress approving the new councilors by an absolute majority is protected if a blockage occurs that prevents it from being approved by two-thirds of the Chamber.
A formula, that of the absolute majority, which, however, had already been used on previous occasions and which with this decree the Government wants to protect to avoid situations of blockade such as the one affecting the entity at the moment. Specifically, two previous decrees, one from 2017 and the other from 2022, introduced changes so that in certain situations of blockade and on a temporary basis the Congress and the Senate could approve the election of the members of the Council by an absolute majority. With this new modification, this double-turn system is permanently fixed.
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