The President of the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC), Cani Fernandezhe assured this Thursday during an appearance at Congress of Deputies who does not know the media law what do you want to impose Pedro Sanchezso the announcement also caused him a “surprise”. In addition, the official warned the socialist government that it is the Parliament that must inform the organization on how it should act in the face of the new regulations.
“As for what the media register is, I don’t know the scope, the content, what is planned… I don’t know what it is about, because the announcement surprised us to us, as to everyone else on Tuesday,” admitted the president of the CNMC, in reference to the law on the media.
Of course, Fernández insisted that it is Congress that must decide how the regulations will be applied and not the Executive: “What we are doing now is waiting to analyze it. What I can tell you is that the mandate The mandate must come to us from Congress as to what we must do, what our functions will be, what the change in our law is…
“If this Congress decides to entrust us with this mandate, we will fill it with responsibility, independence… We are in such an early phase that I cannot say anything else,” the official lamented.
Sanchez’s Media Law
The Sanchez government announced this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers which is preparing a classification to decide “what a media is” and determine who are “the real professionals”. To do this, the Executive will use the democratic regeneration plan which is already approved.
It was Sánchez himself, in response to journalistic investigations carried out by media outlets such as OKDIARIO, who provoked the accusation of his wife, Begoña Gomezwhich announced in the first quarter of the year the approval of a new regulatory framework control critical media.
Sumar’s Culture Officer and Spokesperson, Ernest Urtasunwill be responsible for implementing control measures on media publishing companies. For Urtasun, this is a “first step, based on the certainty that much remains to be done.” According to him, “it is essential that administrations are not financiers of the fake news” and believes that we must work towards “support the work of real professionals“.
