The PP was furious when the President of Congress, Francina Armengol, decided to maintain the debate and the vote on the new RTVE board of directors, Wednesday October 30, despite the suspension of the monitoring session of DANA victims in Valencia. The anger of the people was staged by their absence from the plenary session and the vote itself. And Alberto Núñez Feijóo summoned the press for a solemn declaration of condemnation.
“I ask the government to convene an extraordinary Council of Ministers and declare national mourning. And that the plenary session does not take place. “We are not going to participate because of the hypocrisy of suspending the ordinary plenary session and unscrupulously convening an extraordinary plenary session for the control of RTVE,” he denounced. It was noon on Wednesday, October 30.
The day before, Tuesday 29, the worst cold wave on record devastated Valencia, with a current toll of more than 200 dead, dozens missing and tens of thousands of homes and infrastructure destroyed. And that day, Valencian President Carlos Mazón decided to lock himself in for a meal with journalist Maribel Vilaplana to offer her the management of A Punt, Valencia’s regional television. Mazón arrived two hours late to the key CECOPI meeting, because all that food was nowhere to be found for members of his own government.
For the moment, no one from the PP has come out publicly to criticize or discredit the quote from his colleague who kept him out of the leadership of DANA. But criticism of Pedro Sánchez’s executive during the RTVE vote ten days ago continued.
“Unfortunately, we did not obtain a full suspension of the plenary at that time. The government and its partners wanted to continue this attack against the control of Radiotelevisión Española which we deeply regret. A spectacle in which we did not want to participate and that is why we stood up in plenary session showing, on the one hand, our solidarity with the victims and with all their families and, on the other hand, our resounding opposition to this that was happening there at that time. to suspend this plenary session,” declared Thursday the parliamentary spokesperson for the popular parties, Miguel Tellado.
Tellado appeared after the weekly spokesperson committee meeting and didn’t let up on that refrain during his speech. “The priority of these two weeks of parliamentary activity has been to urgently appoint the new board of directors of Radiotelevisión Española in order to allocate positions on this board to its government partners. And, of course, the People’s Party is clear on what must be our priority these days and, for the moment, it will not be about the distribution of positions in public boards.”
The day before, Cuca Gamarra had insisted on the criticism. “The path that Valencia demands is the one that everyone involved deserves and the one that all Spaniards must travel together. Of course, the path is not the one indicated these days by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and by the Socialist Party: attack Radiotelevisión Española.”
