The clash between candidacies in the until now apparently peaceful Television Academy is resolved this Tuesday through a meeting of the electoral board that will have to decide if it gives the winner to the list of María Casado, after the noisy withdrawal of her rivals.

Along with the current president of the Academy, professionals from the audiovisual industry such as Sandra Golpe, Carlos García-Hirschfeld, Carmen Amores (director of the Castilla-La Mancha regional association) or María José Rodríguez (responsible for Amazon Originals in Spain) attended. .

However, the process has been interrupted amid accusations of "irregularities": there will be no elections in the organization that is precisely in charge of electoral debates (such as the one that should be held next year for the Generals).

One of the strong men on the alternative list, the filmmaker Fernando Navarrete, was on Casado's side in the last elections (in which no complaint was made known) and in fact he currently serves as one of his vice presidents.

The rules of these elections are the same as in 2018, point out members of the board.

The origin of the split in the Academy lies in

the delivery of around 195,000 euros as financial aid by the Community of Madrid

as a result of the covid-19 pandemic, according to what EL MUNDO has learned from different representatives of the institution. .

The injection was made available to companies with economic losses due to the coronavirus that had maintained their workforce, without resorting to the ERTE formula despite not having been able to carry out their mission normally during strict confinement.

That amount, delivered last month, had passed different filters established to determine if his request really corresponded.

First, it was reviewed by an agency;

then a law firm.

However, doubts arose, Navarrete disagreed.

Sources from the Academy recall that the Community has had to return to the Treasury more than 100 million euros of the 679 million received for companies in this situation, for which reason these funds were not even fully channeled.

From there, positions were separated, which have materialized in the existence of two lists.

The most consolidated, that of Casado, has come across another alternative with Mayte Pascual at the helm, a candidacy that withdrew the weekend before the elections amid

accusations of "absence of the necessary guarantees for the holding of a campaign clean election"

.

Given this, the elections, scheduled for yesterday, Monday, have had to be canceled

in extremis

, despite having already received around 300 votes by mail, without a photocopy of the DNI (as the wayward candidacy now made ugly) but within a pre-stamped envelope previously sent to the address of each academic, who was forced to include his handwritten signature with the cast vote.

In this way, the weight now falls on the electoral board of the TV Academy, five members chosen by lottery among which are professionals in the sector as renowned as the presenter Jesús Álvarez.

In view of the precedents, Casado's option is expected to be imposed even if an assembly of the partners (some 850) is convened to ratify the decision.

In 2006, Ignacio Sala handed over the baton to Manuel Campo Vidal without further rivals, and he presided over the Academy until 2018, succeeded by Casado.

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