This Wednesday, Congress validated the RTVE decree-law approved last Tuesday by the Government, which modifies the majorities for the election of members of the Board of Directors of the public establishment. Furthermore, he approved its treatment as a bill.
In an extraordinary plenary session, the text of the coalition government was presented thanks to the 175 votes in favor of the PSOE, Sumar, PNV, Bildu, ERC and Junts, while the BNG opposed it. PP and VOX were absent after requesting the suspension of sessionas has already happened with the control of the government by the dramatic effects of DANA. All the spokespersons dedicated their first words to those affected by the heavy rains, to whom they expressed their condolences and support.
To defend the project, the Minister of Digital Transformation and Public Service, Oscar Lopezexplained that the Government is requesting validation of this decree, “simply, to unblock board of RTVE” and pointed out that five of the current members have expired and that there remains one vacant position after the resignation of José Manuel Pérez Tornero.
“In the last five years we have had an administrator and three presidents. Therefore, we want to give stability and continuity to such an important company,” said López, who reiterated that with this decree “there will be a more plural history. of RTVE”, because “there will never have been so many parliamentary groups represented or proposing to the RTVE board of directors”.
With the change, the RTVE board of directors will go from ten members to fifteen memberseleven of whom will be elected to the Congress of Deputies and four of them to the Senate, by a two-thirds majority. In addition, an exclusive dedication is established.
“So, for the peace of everyone, it is a decree which unblocks the governance of RTVE, which will be good for everyone, even for those who are not going to vote for this decree today, because it will be good for RTVE and that I will guarantee it, I insist, and these are empirical data that I am ready to compare with you within a month, when the new board of directors is elected”, emphasized López.
The turn of the spokespersons, the deputy of BNG Nestor Rego announced his opposition to validation of the decreewhich he considers “contradictory in itself”, with elements which can be “positive, such as this interest and this effort to move towards plurality”, but with another “more problematic” aspect and that is the question of majorities. “We are defending in Madrid exactly the same thing as in Galicia,” said Rego, who criticized the fact that “the qualified majority is reduced to an absolute majority” as in the case of RTVG.
On the other hand, the spokesperson for PNV Joseba Agirretxea Urresti showed the support from your group to the validation of the decree, because “it has been demonstrated that there is no perfect system” for the composition of a board of directors. “Several attempts were made and they didn’t work either, which is why we finally had to unblock it,” he said, adding that it was necessary to “find a way out of the chaos” and a “unsustainable” situation. “.
“The Government has opted for this. It is certainly not at all the one we would have liked, but it is what it is and we had to give it one. And at that time we will give our support to the one which he chose. we proposed because we consider that plurality is guaranteed and a greater plurality than that which it had”, underlined the spokesperson of the PNV.
By the parliamentary group Euskal Herria-Bildu, Mertxe Aizpurua stated that he understood the government decree and that There is “an emergency” in the face of the “blockade” situation. “There is relevance in the modification proposed to change the method of election, a mode that allows greater diversity in the composition of the management bodies, which increase to fifteen, which avoids the eternal veto of other political sensitivities , as has happened until now, and this allows us to better reflect the social and political plurality of the Spanish State”, he expressed.
However, Aizpurua considers that this is an “insufficient” first step, which is why they will try to “modify as much as possible many deficits” that they observe in this royal decree and clarified: “In Euskal Herria Bildu, we neither wanted nor requested nor negotiated a position on the RTVE Council Quite simply because we do not aspire to occupy positions in state entities, and this is how we acted, once furthermore, also maintaining our consistency on this occasion.
