• Contest.Rosa María Mateo bounces Batet the claim of the candidates

  • Reproaches.The lawyers explode against the committee of experts

The public tender to form a new board of directors in RTVE "must be completed as a democratic selection formula and as a sign of respect for the rights of citizens over the public media."

The 19 applicants for the contest who have the approval of the committee of experts have addressed the Parliament to claim the renewal within the corporation of the body of maximum responsibility, which does not exist today.

"It is not sustainable, of course, to ensure the function of public service entrusted to the RTVE corporation a persistent regulatory, institutional and financial instability", they maintain.

"We strongly urge the Cortes Generales and their parliamentary groups to endeavor to complete,

as soon as possible

, the public tender for the election of the CRTVE Board of Directors because there are no reasons or legal grounds that can support keeping it blocked" , expose the candidates, the totality of 19 shortlisted to integrate the council and end the provisional administration of Mateo, which already lasts more than two years.

This journalist rejected last week a request from the same candidates (15 of the 19 in) to read a manifesto from the station's headquarters, in Prado del Rey, as Mateo understood that the election process is "the exclusive competence of the Cortes General ".

In a letter advanced by this newspaper, the administrator responded with

the "immediate transfer of her letter to the president of the Cortes

Generales", Meritxell Batet, "so that she can deal with responding to their demands."

Faced with this reply, all of the candidates have addressed the Parliament with the intention that the process be resumed for its culmination: "This September 29, it was

three years since the approval of Law 5/2017

, which amended the in force since 2006, of state-owned radio and television, “to regain the independence of the RTVE Corporation and pluralism in the parliamentary election of its organs.” The balance of the three-year period shows that the CRTVE has been in force for more than two years. without a Board of Directors and with a

provisional direction, ignoring the will and mandate of the Cortes

Generales themselves ".

An exam that falls into oblivion

Among the candidates there is a fear that the public competition launched, already delayed, will end up leaving in the background the examination and the screening carried out on the applicants, from which the signatories were approved.

That suspicion gained strength in the first paragraph of Mateo's aforementioned response, in which he diverted any impulse to the cause of the claimants to Congress.

"I acknowledge receipt of your letter yesterday on behalf of 15 of the 95 candidates for the contest for the election of the board of directors of RTVE", the administrator told them, that is, as if the fact that they were approved candidates by the committee of experts will not entail any difference with respect to hypothetical requests from the rest of the candidates.

The Senate lawyers had questioned the verdict of the expert committee, mainly supported by

the low female quota of the approved candidacies

, for which they gave the option of "calling to appear other candidates who, without being classified among the top 20 , have been evaluated ", that is, those not selected.

This thesis, which in principle would be to circumvent the thirty resources of unapproved candidates, was understood by the committee of experts as a disparagement of their work.

In fact, the omission of that examination now seems to fit in with the Government's point of view, as stated by President Pedro Sánchez in an interview for TVE itself: "

It is evident that there is a report from the lawyers that establishes a solution to the current blockade

, to the resources also raised by some participants of that public tender that was launched more than a year ago, and we hope that over the next few months we can solve it. "

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