The confrontation over the creation of what is to be the new Council of RTVE continues in the institutions, with the PSOE and its partners on one side and PP and Vox on the other. This Tuesday was the first vote on the appointment of the eleven board members proposed by the Government. and the rest of the parties, with the exception of the Popular Party and Vox, and as expected, it did not go ahead.
At least two thirds of positive votes were necessary in the first vote in Congress, or what is the same, 234 yeses, which were not achieved with the vote against the PP and Vox. This only postpones the election of the candidatesThe decree approved by the government last month establishes that only an absolute majority will be required for a second vote, something that the PSOE and its partners are guaranteed. This vote will take place next Thursday. There are still to be elected the 4 councilors that will come out of the Senate, up to the 15 that will compose the corporation’s governing body.
The confrontation for the control of RTVE has been bitter and heated, with both sides reproaching each other for wanting to manipulate the public radio and television, or even for doing so in the places where they govern. We are talking about the control of 6,900 workers, seven channels, six radio stations and a digital platform.
Néstor Rego, from the Mixed Group, accused the PP of incoherence: “The PP talks about assaulting RTVE when in 2009 it assaulted the Galician television, turning it into a propaganda media of the Partido Popular, with a director appointed by Feijoó and with workers protesting every week and now on indefinite strike against the manipulation.”
If in something all the deputies of the pro-independence parties agreed, it is that they want for RTVE “greater cultural and linguistic plurality and that it should reflect the plurality of the Spanish state”.“.
Pilar Calvo, from Juns, was the most specific in this regard, demanding greater presence of Catalan and money for production companies in her autonomous community. “In all this process of creating a new governance framework has been to promote true Catalanism.not Salvador Illa’s removable and removable”.
Its candidate, Miquel Calçada i Olivella, stated Calvo, goes to the Council with the “commitment to the defense of the country. [Cataluña] and the values of Catalan nationality” and with the idea of making in Catalonia “La 2 is La 2 in Catalan“. According to the pro-independence deputy, “that RTVE in Catalonia should be in Catalan is an act of reparation“for the “discrimination” of a language which is not a “minority, but a minority language”.
Public television is also for “support the audiovisual creation of small production companies that create in Catalan.The funding quota should be reviewed”, Calvo also claimed. “A new season is starting, pay attention to your screens”, he said as a colophon and warning of what will come to RTVE.
Manuel Mariscal, from VOX, expressed himself in absolute terms: “The new season is starting, pay attention to your screens”.Today culminates the Government’s assault on RTVE“. The representative of Santiago Abascal’s party reproached the Government and its partners for not stopping the election process of the Council in the middle of the disaster produced by the DANA in Valencia.
“What the Government has carried out has been a decree for turning RTVE into a propaganda apparatus without control and to benefit production companies close to Socialism and to the Catalan apparatus.”said Mariscal, who stressed that “the future board will be completely controlled by the PSOE, and the board members will be paid 100,000 euros for six years, and if they say yes to everything, they will be able to stay for another six years”.
According to Vox, the Government intends to “control the informative content to turn what Moncloa says into truth”, to promote “the ideology of the government” and to control foreign production, “to enrich the production companies close to the government”.
Vicent Manuel Sarrià Morell, from the Socialist Group, defended the suitability of the candidates and charged against PP and Vox, accusing them of trying to prolong the blockage in RTVE. with the excuse of the tragedy in Valencia, as well as of “controlling the public TV channels wherever they govern”.
Macarena Montesinos, from the PP spoke last, accusing the Government of occupying “all the institutions” and finishing off “with the obscene assault on RTVE”. That of the PP complained about the distribution of those selected. “The councilors should be chosen equally between the two chambers, because both represent the citizenry“He said, because 11 of the councilors are elected in the Congress (controlled by the PSOE) and only 4 in the Senate (dominated by the PP).
Thus, Montesinos said that what is coming is “a council of political commissars with a president will have full powers. to hire the friendly production companies and to appoint the directors”, in what will be “a gross cacicada”, in the opinion of the parliamentarian, who believes that the haste in processing the RTVE decree is due to the fact that “they are trying to cover up so many crimes”. [en el seno del PSOE] that it was urgent to control RTVE”.
On Thursday the list of the eleven candidates will be voted againMiquel Calçada i Olivella (proposed by Junts); Esther de la Mata Ahedo (proposed by PSOE); Mercedes de Pablos Candón (proposed by PSOE); Rosa León Conde (proposed by PSOE); José Pablo López Sánchez (proposed by PSOE); María Teresa Martín del Caz (proposed by Sumar); Mariano Muniesa de Caveda (proposed by Unidas Podemos); Angélica Rubio Cerezales (proposed by PSOE); María Roncesvalles Solana (proposed by PNV); Sergi Sol i Bros (proposed by ERC) and Marta Ribas (proposed by Sumar).