The last hours have been the most complicated for Cascajosa Design during the six months he spent at the head of RadioTelevisión Española (RTVE) and that, looking back and everything he had to go through – including his arrival under the confirmed activism of the Socialist Party – gives an example of the seriousness of what happened last weekend, when a leak of exam questions from the oppositions An informant from the public entity forced the suspension of the test and triggered an internal crisis that we are still trying to control.
The event carried out with the Queen Letizia This Monday, as part of the presentation of the “National Radio for All” service, was the only moment of respite for the interim president, to whom RTVE advisors unsuccessfully requested throughout the day the summons of extraordinary advice to clarify responsibilities for what happened. A conclave on which Cascajosa bargained, given the possibility that the pending question of his continuity at the head of the company could also be included on the agenda, and which he exchanged for the convening of a “information meeting”, what the sources consulted say has no precedent. “The knives are going to fly,” says one of the sources consulted, who anticipates the tension that will be experienced at the conclave.
Because even if the main thing is to talk about the crisis caused by the suspension of oppositions, the atmosphere continues to be worrying about the decision taken by Cascajosa last week, adjourning the last Council before the vote on its continuity in the head of RTVE, since he already knew it He did not receive sufficient support to extend his interim mandate.. This instability and the attempts to attract the vote of Elena Sánchez – her predecessor in power – and José Manuel Martin Medemhad concentrated their efforts until Saturday, when the opposition crisis erupted late at night, delaying all these negotiations and complicating his presidency.
The attempts to calm the spirits between the workers and the opponents kept Cascajosa at full capacity throughout the day on Monday and he will occupy it again this Tuesday, during which he will have to deal with the councilors, who will put him back on the table. the need to make a change at the head of RTVE.
The chaos triggered by this affair led the People’s Party to register on Monday the Urgent appearance of Cascajosa at the RTVE joint commission in Congress and the Senate, where he must go to explain the “chaotic situation surrounding the opposition process”. Something that, according to sources consulted by ABC, will be difficult to achieve this week and will surely happen next week.
New exam date
A few hours after the opposition fiasco, the interim president of RTVE appeared this Monday in front of the media from the Prado de Rey headquarters and addressed the opponents who were demonstrating there to ask them “understanding”. “What we want to convey is that, to ensure equality and transparency, we were forced to suspend the examination. I have not wanted to make any statement until now because I believe that what we must do is work to resolve the situation,” he explained to the press and those concerned.
In the meantime, the RTVE Employment Commission met to set a new date for the suspended exam, which will be Saturday November 2. This is not the one that had initially been envisaged since, according to RTVE sources, the chosen day falls in the middle of the bridge. All Saintswhich made travel and accommodation more expensive for all opponents who have to travel to the capital, but the date was finally confirmed in a press release.
In addition to the new date of the exam, the Employment Commission announced a new tribunal for the exam, completely renewed, since the previous one was forced to resign en masse a few hours after the chaos generated by the suspension of the exam, as we learned about ABC. The court will ignore the questions until the day itself. “The preparation for the exam will be carried out in an agile manner, without leaving intermediate days between processes. The current content will only cover until September 28,” the statement read, referring to one of the exam papers.
Security flaws in the RTVE opposition process are not a new problem. In August, a security breach on the site selections from the call revealed bank details, payment receipts, identity documents or professional certificates that candidates had to submit to submit their application. The entity denounced this failure caused by the company that managed the tests, Cegos, which already had problems with the candidate selection processes. Generalitat of Catalonia. During his penultimate appearance at the control committee, Cascajosa alluded to calls from spokespersons of various parliamentary groups who referred to security failures. “There is no form of lack of control. It is necessary to promote our own security platform, which until now was external. We have to learn a lot because it is a complex process.
