• Agreement.PP and PSOE agree on the new RTVE Council: Pérez Tornero replaces Rosa María Mateo at the helm

José Manuel Pérez Tornero will preside over RTVE in replacement of Rosa María Mateo, sole provisional administrator since the summer of 2018. This professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), holder of a chair linked to Unesco, achieved the fourth best score among the 95 candidates who aspired to be part of the Board of Directors of the public corporation.

The professor complies with the consensus standards that the PSOE and PP have pursued for the new president, a position that would also have to avoid in the configuration of his management team an imbalance in the sensitivities already raised for the highest representative body of the chain.

"Education is everything. You learn with an entertainment and fiction program. Education is transversal", defended this professor when he defended his candidacy before Parliament: "

More than lamenting the lack of audience, we must give everyone television a cultural

and educational

aspect

".

The Board of Directors has a total of 10 members of which 6 will vote this Thursday within Congress (the remaining 4 will need the support of the Senate soon).

Not all the directors have the profile of Pérez Tornero, theoretical, informative, researcher.

The body that controls RTVE (and which currently does not exist due to provisional status) makes clear not a few preferences of the parties.

On the part of the PSOE, there would be four proposals, all more or less linked to the field of education: that of

Pérez Tornero, Conchi Cascajosa, Ramón Colom and Elena Sánchez

, the latter a veteran journalist of the public channel and with good relations within the party in government.

Elena Sánchez, general secretary with Rosa María Mateo, ended up leaving that position due to disagreements with the administrator.

For its part, the PP has proposed to the Council some of the candidates who have most firmly positioned themselves against some of Mateo's decisions during his long term in office.

This is the case of Jenaro Castro and Carmen Sastre, long-standing professionals at RTVE relegated in recent times to the background.

María

Consuelo Aparicio

would also have been backed by the

popular ones

, who have counted on Teodoro García Egea in the negotiations against Félix Bolaños on the part of the Socialists.

Podemos has not wasted much less the opportunity, and has promoted two candidates totally to his liking within the 10 of the Council.

One of them is

Manuel Martín Medem

, who participates in the website

La Último Hora

, led by former members of the purple formation, as well as in

Las cosas clara

, a program presented by Jesús Cintora in La 1.

Roberto Lakidain

, also proposed by Podemos, belongs to CCOO and has come to defend that the coverage of Vox and its leader Santiago Abascal in TVE be minimized, understanding that a preventive censorship was necessary in the face of the rise of the extreme right.

Ciudadanos, the party that was supposed to propose a candidate, has finally rejected that option, as part of a substantive criticism of the distribution carried out by PSOE and PP, and which also reaches the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

Inés Arrimadas described yesterday as "an outrage".

Therefore, the PNV has taken advantage of this opportunity, and has chosen Juan José Baños as a counselor.

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