Next week, Congress appoints the eleven RTVE advisors of the PSOE and its partners

Thursday, November 14 will be the second, not before two o’clock in the afternoon, where an absolute majority will be enoughin accordance with the new electoral system hastily promoted by the Government and applauded by its allies. To reach 176 votes, none of the investiture partners must fail Sánchez, which, in principle, in this case does not worry the Executive.

After that, the RTVE Council which will be formed will choose among them the person who will lead the presidency. And if the procedure fails due to lack of quorum among the advisors, the decree allows the government to appoint a single administrator.

The Senate, for its part, must elect to the other four advisorswhere the PP has everything to win with its absolute majority, although it has not yet revealed whether it will present candidates due to its opposition to the reform promoted by the Executive, which guarantees control of the organization . The government’s royal decree law states that nominations must be made two weeks after their publication, a process which expires on Friday, but the Upper House has still not set a date.

The Congress Council opened an express deadline of just over 24 hours to present the candidates to the RTVE Council, even before the plenary vote was taken to validate the government decree which lowers the majorities necessary to approve the nominations. This was voted on in an extraordinary plenary session that deputies from the PP, Vox and Compromís refused to attend due to the tragedy that occurred at DANA.

Eleven places left

In this way, the PSOE and its partners They occupied the eleven seats corresponding to Congress. The PP, for its part, will have to be satisfied with the four in the Senate, although it is not clear what it will do.

Throughout this week, nominees underwent scrutiny before the Congressional Appointments Advisory Commission. This was supplemented by the vote against Vox and in the absence of the PPwho only intervened at the beginning to denounce the emergency of DANA, while the control of RTVE was being discussed.

The candidates chosen by the parties are very attached to the holidays which were offered to them – whether because of a political past in party activism or a direct relationship for ideological reasons –.

The one chosen by Podemos is the musical announcer Mariano Muniesa, that in the candidacy of Pablo Iglesias for the 2021 elections in the Community of Madrid he was ranked 30th.

On the other hand, Junts presented Miquel Calçada ‘Mikimoto’, a TV3 presenter who appeared on the Junts pel Sí lists proposed as senator. The Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) is committed to Sergi Solclose collaborator of Oriol Junqueras, while the PNV chose the former Minister of Education of the Government of Navarra and former representative of Geroa Bai Maria Roncesvalles.

Sumar suggested to the journalist Maria Teresa Martín, who was a member of the RTVE Intercenter Committee for CCOO, and the former deputy of En Comú Marta Ribas.

The six elected representatives of the PSOE

The PSOE measured its decision by the number of positions for which it is responsible. So, they chose Esther de la Matacommunications director for Minister Félix Bolaños; Angélica Rubio, director of “El Plural” and who worked at Moncloa with former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero; the journalist and writer Mercedes de Pablos, who directed Canal Sur when the PSOE governed and who was part of the socialist lists in Seville; and singer-songwriter Rosa León, former PSOE councilor at Madrid City Hall.

The sixth name is the former content director of RTVE Jose Pablo Lopez, dismissed in March by the previous interim president, Elena Sánchez, amid the controversial signing of David Broncano.