This Tuesday, the Congress of Deputies rejected the appointment of RTVE advisors proposed by the PSOE and its partners. The Lower House did not validate the list of names with two thirds of the votes, therefore The vote must be repeated within 48 hours, next Thursday.
Even if Thursday will be valid with an absolute majority, two leaks in the left bloc seem to jeopardize the appointment of advisors. The list received a total of 174 votes in favor, two blanks and one draw. If these numbers were maintained on Thursday, they would be two votes short of reaching the 176 votes needed.
The vote having taken place in a ballot box, each deputy rising to vote by secret ballot, it is impossible to know who it is, unless he intends to communicate it. PP And Voice They didn’t even vote.
Despite the surprise that there may have been on Thursday, the fact that the list was not supported on Tuesday was expected, since both PP and Vox expressed their disagreement with the Government’s strategy. During the debate, the two opposition parties accused the Executive of finish “the assault” on RTVE and “occupy all institutions” of the state.
On October 22, the government approved a decree modifying the system of parliamentary election of RTVE councilors. The Lower House would go from six councilors to 11, while the Senate (where the PP has an absolute majority) would continue to name only four.
This enlargement makes it possible to unblock the renewal of the Council, but at the cost of the fact that the Government’s partners also propose their candidates, as has happened, and isolate the PP. In addition, the composition of the Council will last beyond this term, so the next government will have a Council appointed by the current one of Pedro Sánchez.
Although the government defends that it is a mechanism to represent the plurality of the State on RTVE and avoid blockages, the opposition accuses the executive of taking control of public radio and television . “It contains a coarse cacicada”, criticized the PP deputy Macarena Montesinos.
“They have once again disregarded the Senate. They will have to wait until Thursday, but they will approve a Council of Political Commissars with a president with full powers to recruit friendly production companies,” he added.
However, much of the debate has focused on DANA. On October 30, a day after DANA, Congress suspended the government oversight session held on Wednesdays in the Lower House. But the extraordinary session took place to advance the appointments of the RTVE Council.
“You, who demonstrated your moral turpitude on the 30th in this Assembly and placed your interests before pain, do not have the moral authority to criticize those who were there,” Montesinos said, harshly criticizing the work of the central government.
The MP criticized the Minister of Ecological Transition, Therese Riberato be “in Brussels or Paris to prepare for his future” during the production of DANA. In this regard, he said that “Pedro Sánchez should send the European Commission a solution and not a problem.”
Vox also said that what the government did by maintaining the RTVE session two weeks ago is “shameful”. “You don’t care” about DANA, your deputy said Manuel Mariscal“to place 11 in the Council, without any empathy for the Spanish people”. “What they did is shameful,” he concluded.
