Madrid’s public television Telemadrid has downplayed or passed over in silence the news about the conviction for corruption of Alfredo Prada, former vice president of Esperanza Aguirre, the judicial investigation for corruption of the vice president of the Regional Assembly, Ana Millán, and the leak of police data by which a court is investigating the mayor of Alcalá de Henares, Judith Piquet, according to what the majority unions of the public entity, CCOO, CGT and UGT, denounce in a statement in which they ironize the editorial decisions. “For some reason, they have passed without pain or glory,” the writing states.
Alfredo Prada was vice-president of the Community of Madrid, Minister of Justice and Esperanza Aguirre’s confidant from 2005 to 2011. Last week, the National Court sentenced him to seven years in prison for embezzlement and embezzlement for his responsibility in the waste from the failed City of Justice project, which the autonomous government is now trying to revive. Telemadrid reported the news, the unions point out, “in short queues of 20 seconds”, but without mentioning Aguirre or the PP, and referring to Prada as “vice-president and former councilor of Madrid”, without further context.
The workers’ confederations of the entity use sarcasm to explain what happened: “When a vice president is indicted, it is undoubtedly news. When they accuse the second, it is already raining. But when they condemn the third party, as is the case of Esperanza Aguirre, then the information, which is of course informative, is no longer of interest.”
Prada’s conviction was briefly mentioned, but concealed. There was even less space for the news of Ana Millán, former mayor of Arroyomolinos, being investigated for corruption while she was a youth councilor and now number 3 of the PP of Madrid, as well as vice-president of the Assembly of Madrid. References to the taking over of the investigation by the High Court of Justice of Madrid appear in the coverage of the complaints of the spokesperson of Más Madrid, Manuela Bergerot, during the debate on the state of the region, in the twelfth paragraph of a note on the public. the entity’s website.
The union’s letter analyzes this fact, always in an ironic tone: “The UCO reports include collections from Ana Millán’s relatives paid by companies assigned to her municipality, as well as numerous cash deposits in the councilor’s own accounts. We will see what happens, but this is undoubtedly important news, which our information services will surely follow exhaustively from now on.
“We are surprised that this has not generated interest”
The third current event in dispute is the investigation into the alleged leak of two complaints of sexual assault in Alcalá de Henares, disseminated by senior PP officials in Madrid. A magistrate has summoned the mayor, Judith Martín, to testify on the matter, but Telemadrid does not mention it. The workers’ representatives analyze it acutely: “We are surprised that this news has not aroused the interest of our editors, because in recent months they have shown an extraordinary interest in the leaks of data held by the administration, with news, day after day. and a day related to this subject.
Union sources point out that not only is the information being ignored, but it is being “overturned”, with the coverage of another complaint from the municipal government, for the moment without legal proceedings: an alleged award of contracts to people close to the PSOE during the previous term.
CCOO, with seven delegates, the UGT and the CGT (with three representatives respectively), are in the majority on the works council of the public television of Madrid, where the Independent Union is also represented, with four delegates, and which does not subscribe to the declaration.
