A day of heart attack, and of tug of war, this Tuesday on Radio Televisión Española whose Board of Directors has dismissed its content director, José Pablo López, and, subsequently, its interim president, Elena Sánchez, within a few minutes of each other. Gentleman, so the conclave is still meeting to decide whether to elect another interim presidency or a rotating one.
The political controversy, however, lies in the votes that have led to the voting.
In the case of López, as Eldiario.es has advanced, the decision has gone ahead with the vote of the president herself – at that time still in office -, the three councilors proposed by the PP (Jenaro Castro, Carmen Sastre and Consuelo Aparicio ), as well as one of the two councilors appointed at the time by Unidas Podemos (José Manuel Martín Medem). While the other representative of Podemos (Roberto Lakidain), the two councilors proposed by the PSOE (Ramón Colom and Concepción Cascajosa) and the one from the PNV (Juan José Baños) would have voted against.
The different vote of the two positions appointed by Podemos is due to the fact that Martín Medem corresponds to the PCE, now integrated into Sumar, while Lakidain maintains his connection with the purple party.
Podemos rejects that Medem’s vote can be interpreted as Podemos “detaching itself” from anything. “He and his party will have to explain his vote,” said the party’s co-spokesperson, Isa Serra.
Sumar, for its part, remains silent and will not make any assessment until the board of directors meeting ends.
On the part of the Government, its spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, has preferred to be cautious until the end of the Council although she has admitted to being “with great concern about the leaks from the RTVE Council.” But she wanted to make it clear that “what is truly fundamental and important is to preserve independence” of Radiotelevisión Española as the “quality public service that it is”.
All this has happened just 24 hours after the founder of the purple formation, and former second vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, returned to the public entity as a collaborator and, as sources close to Sumar point out, with the “knife between his teeth.” ” to give a “critical” opinion about the plurinational group led by Yolanda Díaz.
