The Senate Plenary has not elected this Tuesday the four members of the RTVE Board of Directors proposed by the PP, as not having achieved a two-thirds majority in the first votesecret and by ballot. Consequently, a second vote will be held, which will take place this Thursday at 1:00 p.m., where an absolute majority will be sufficient.
The former director of TVE Eladio Jareño, the former deputy and former ‘popular’ senator Rubén Moreno, the TVE journalist Marina Vila and the director of the Tax Agency during the government of José María Aznar, Ignacio Ruiz Jarabo, They have achieved 143 votes in favor, 111 blank votes and three null votes.
In his turn as spokesperson, PP senator Antonio Silván stated that “today they are not ending the blockade of RTVE”, but rather that “Today they want to carry out the assault on RTVE.” “This Government’s attack on freedom of information and freedom of expression causes us, the Popular Parliamentary Group, great surprise, or perhaps not anymore, but great indignation. Outrage because it is a new assault on the institutions, in this case to RTVE, to the RTVE of all Spaniards. And I tell you surprise and indignation because this assault was carried out in record time and in the middle of DANA,” he recriminated.
Likewise, Silván added that “not everything immoral is illegal.” “That is the first reason why we agree to the appointments of RTVE advisors that correspond to the Senate. The second is because Our sense of responsibility forces us to exercise control over their excesses. “There is no doubt that we will modify it as soon as we have the democratic capacity to do so,” he said.
A “more plural” Council
“Today we ended the blockade of another institution by the PP,” the PP spokesperson had previously stated. PSOEGabriel Colomé, who has declared that a vote is being taken “to guarantee the most plural Council in the history of this Corporation” and that the Popular Party “accuses them of trying to manipulate and control because that is what he does and has always done where he governs.”
From Junts, Senator Eduardo Pujol has stated that “public service without public, bad business.” “The best public service is for people to see you and listen to you,” he added, while adding that RTVE “is an immensely large and ineffective company, full of bad habits.” “And you know, if you want to fix it, don’t cheat on the solitary anymore,” has highlighted. He has also said that if they do not assume that Catalonia is “a nation”, it is “impossible” for RTVE in Catalonia to “recover the audience, the prestige and the ability to influence.”
On the other hand, María del Mar Caballero, from Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN), has announced her blank vote, although she has assured that she does not doubt the suitability of the candidates. “The Government has taken a coup to not depend on any opposition party in the election of those who will be part of this Council. And in this way the absolute power of another public entity is guaranteed,” he criticized. Furthermore, he added that “although they talk about a more plural Council”, it is a “more governmental Council that will exist from now on.”
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