He Congress of Deputies will debate and vote this Wednesday on the validation of the royal decree-law to change the parliamentary majorities with which RTVE councilors are elected which approved the Council of Ministers just a week ago. The Board of Speakers of the Lower House decided this Tuesday. First, an attempt was made to modify the agenda of the ordinary plenary session to add the point on the decree, but, as a sufficient majority was not reached, a meeting had to be scheduled. extraordinary session.
In turn, the Congress Board has opened the deadline this morning for the different parliamentary groups to present candidates to the Council. They will have time until this Wednesday at 2 p.m..
They are two parallel processes. On the one hand, the plenary session of Congress, in an extraordinary session, will vote on the approval of the royal decree. On the other hand, the different groups They will present their candidates which, in the coming weeks, the Lower House will have to validate.
The royal decree, which will almost certainly pass the parliamentary filter this Wednesday, establishes two changes regarding the election of members of the Board of Directors.
On the one hand, it contemplates that the president of the public entity can be appointed in Congress by absolute majority if the two-thirds vote does not go ahead. On the other hand, it adds five members to the RTVE Board of Directors. They will go from 10 to 15. 11 of them will be elected by the Lower House, while four will be chosen by the Senate.
The Executive explained, through Oscar LopezMinister of Digital Transformation, that the reform, in addition to unblocking the renewal of the Council, seeks to grant public television and radio “pluralismstability and professionalism”.
In fact, López himself highlighted that with the formula approved by the Council of Ministers “the next Board of Directors will be the most plural in history“. It is something that Sumar agrees with, as explained by the general secretary of the parliamentary group, Txema Guijarroalthough he has clarified that it is not the exact formula that Yolanda Díaz’s team would have opted for.
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