With approximately 300,000 Valencians surrounded by mud from floods caused by the DANAwith 80,000 including several without electricity or water, and with dozens of missing three days after the tragedy, the government published in the Official Journal as “urgent measures” the royal decree by which Moncloa modifies the legal regime of RTVE to allow people sharing like-minded people to put on the board of directors. A vote that the Government won thanks to its partners last Wednesday morning, when the situation in Valencia was already tragic but they refused to suspend the plenary session.
“Urgent measures: Resolution of October 30, 2024 of the Congress of Deputies, which orders the publication of the validation agreement of Royal Decree-Law 5/2024, of October 22, which modifies Law 17/2006, of June 5, of public radio and television, to adopt urgent measures concerning the legal regime applicable to the company RTVE“. This is how the BOE opens its festive edition this morning.
Thus, in the middle of the celebration and while the chaos reigning in Valencia affects hundreds of thousands of citizens, the government completes its assault against RTVE. Only 48 hours after advancing it to Congress andrefusing to suspend the plenary. Then, after the approval, the government declared an official 3-day mourning, claiming that it was “the it’s time to be with the victims“. In addition, he suspended all interventions and statements for three days, thus protecting himself from any questions about corruption cases.
Meanwhile, the situation in Valencia remains desperate. The Government decided yesterday to deploy 1,700 soldiers -of them, only 500 are shipped from outside Valencia – what the neighbors have been demanding since the very Tuesday of the tragedy. There are urban centers that are still isolated, with people who have not been able to receive aid, food, water or medicine. Streets full of cars blocking access to emergency services and people still living with corpses in their homes.
The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascalmentioned it on his social networks, posting the image of the BOE this morning. “If Sánchez and his entourage had limited themselves to stealing, perhaps some Spaniards could still forgive him. But not anymore.
OFFICIAL STATE BULLETIN
Friday November 1st.URGENT MEASURES:
Officialize the assault against RTVE.If Sánchez and his entourage had limited themselves to theft, perhaps some Spaniards could still forgive him.
But not anymore.#ArmyNOW pic.twitter.com/Sk1Tae6bcm
— Santiago Abascal 🇪🇸 (@Santi_ABASCAL) November 1, 2024
The new council
The assault of PSOE and its partners has RTVE by decree includes eleven names to be chosen by the Congress of Deputies, among which Jose Pablo Lopezdirector of the public entity dismissed from his position in the controversy surrounding the signing of David Broncano and now accepted to chair the Company, according to parliamentary sources; Former director of Zapatero and current director of The plural, Angelique Rubiothe press chief of Minister Félix Bolaños (Presidency), Esther de la Mataeither Sergi Solwho was an advisor to the separatist Oriol Junqueras (ERC), among others.
The CCOO trade unionist and the Izquierda Unida activist are also part of the joint candidacy to become RTVE councilors. Maria Teresa Marín del Caz and the former representative of Geroa Bai, a PNV brand in Navarre, Maria Roncesvalles Solana Alana.
The following names complete the list of eleven candidates signed by the PSOE, Sumar, Podemos, PNV, Junts and ERC: Miquel Calçada Olivella, Paloma del Río Cañadas, Mercedes de Pablos Candón, Rosa León Conde and Mariano Minuesa de Caveda.
Specifically, Can included the aforementioned Mariano Muniesa, music journalist, specialized in the world of heavy metal and rock in general, who was in the candidacy of Pablo Iglesias in the 2021 elections in the Community of Madrid, in position number 30. For his part, Miquel Calçada, alias Mikimoto, He is the candidate of the Junts. This TV3 journalist was also on the lists of Junts pel Sí and proposed as senator, collects Ep.
Sergi Sol, meanwhile, is the ERC’s bet. The journalist was a close collaborator of Oriol Junqueras, former vice-president of the Generalitat of Catalonia and pardoned by the government after the 1-O coup in Catalonia. From Addincluded trade unionist María Teresa Martín del Caz and TVE sports journalist Paloma del Río on the list of candidates for the board of directors. However, this last candidate was changed for alleged transphobic comments during the Paris 2024 Olympics. Marthe Ribasformer ICV MP, although he has already registered the document.
Thus, the content director of the RTVE company José Pablo López, dismissed from his position by the board of directors on the proposal of the previous interim president, Elena Sanchezwith whom he had disagreements over the signing of David Broncano, is one of the candidates – from the PSOE quota – for the position of advisor to the entity and also over the proposal to soon chair RTVE. The interim president is currently Concepción Cascajosa, a PSOE activist for decades.
