Cascajosa Designinterim president of RTVE, managed to prevent a new attempt by the five critical advisors to fire her with another legal trick. These five councilors, the majority on the RTVE council, tried once again to vote for the dismissal of Cascajosa during the conclave on Monday, without success when the president affirmed that the royal decree approved last week by the government did not do so. not allowed. .
As this newspaper published on Saturday, Cascajosa convened the ordinary council of the public channel for this Monday, after having submitted to the successive requests of the five critical councilors to hold an extraordinary council – being in the majority, the statutes of the channel allow -. . Even though it was not on the agenda, item 2 of this order – the president’s report – gave rise, once again, to the request for the vote that Cascajosa carried out for the first time in advice at the end of September.
As this newspaper published, the day after the suspension of the municipal council in September, when its dismissal was going to be voted on, the five critical councilors – the three on the proposal of the PP, more Elena Sanchez (PSOE) and José Manuel Martin Medem (Add) – They requested by email that an extraordinary conclave be held on Monday September 30.
The leak of the RTVE opposition examination, Sunday September 29, allowed Cascajosa to delay the meeting of councilors and not to convene this council. That, and that in Moncloa they were preparing the royal decree that would carry out a new coup d’état on the public channel, leaving the PP outside the nomination of RTVE advisors.
Finally, after the government decree last Tuesday, Cascajosa convened the council for this Monday, after the five critical councilors requested again on Tuesday afternoon for the conclave to be held.
At this Monday’s meeting, the report that the councilors had requested from the public prosecutor was read to determine whether the councilors’ right to a secret vote took precedence over the majority’s right to impeach the president. This report proved the critical advisors right.
Immediately afterward, they asked for a vote on Cascajosa’s impeachment, an item that was avoided at the September council meeting, with the president saying councilors could not vote secretly because not all of them were present in person . But Cascajosa used another legal report in which he claims that the royal decree approved last Tuesday by the government prevents councilors from requesting this vote, since they are in office.
This is the third time that Cascajosa has maneuvered to avoid his dismissal. The first time in September, alleging that the secret vote of directors could not be guaranteed; second, delaying the convening of a new conclave despite the fact that the five critical councilors constituted the majority; and thirdly, this Monday, alleging that the government decree does not allow them to request a vote to end it since they are in power. Cascajosa is still gaining time while the PSOE and its partners validate last Tuesday’s royal decree in Congress.
On the basis of this royal decree, the Congress will elect 11 councilors and the Senate 4 within a month, at the end of November. By changing the majorities to elect them – from two-thirds of the Congress to only an absolute majority – the PSOE will not need the PP and its investiture partners will be enough to appoint the 11 councilors of the Congress. The 4 in the Senate could come from the PP since it has an absolute majority, but it remains to be seen if the PP agrees to appoint them and accepts the vote. decree of Pedro Sanchez.
