• Communication: Ayuso complains by letter to the director of Telemadrid for mocking Infanta Elena in a program
  • Communication: Ayuso says that Telemadrid "is no longer an essential public service"

The seams of Isabel Díaz Ayuso's relationship with Telemadrid tense. After two months of neat crossover of indirect reproaches between the president of the regional government and the direction of the public chain, the issue has now acquired an official protest format.

The spit of this last disagreement has been the emission in the humor program Here Madroño of a piece dedicated to Infanta Elena. In the course of it, a voiceover mocked the new love of sewing Don Juan Carlos' daughter.

Ayuso considers this audiovisual content "unfortunate" and "distasteful" and this has been made known by letter to the general director of Radio Televisión Madrid, José Pablo López. Through this letter, advanced by Abc , he also reminds him that the entity, "due to its public nature, has the obligation and duty to provide citizens with the objective, truthful and quality information they deserve" and that this maxim " It should be reflected at all times in the programming, regardless of the type of space involved.

In the chain they have declined to comment on the formal complaint issued by the Executive of the Puerta del Sol, dated October 14, which they say they learned when they read it in the newspaper. However, a spokesman does underline the “undoubted commitment” of the company's management to the Crown as it assures that it evidences the fact that it has a correspondent specialized in the informative coverage of the Royal House and the realization of various specials dedicated to the monarchy, including the documentary broadcast in 2017 on the occasion of the 50th birthday of King Felipe VI.

Controversies

The controversy over the Here Madroño is only one of those carried out by the regional president and Telemadrid since her inauguration in mid-August. In different interviews in other media, the popular leader has reiterated that the regional chain "is no longer an essential public service", as are hospitals and schools, due among other reasons to the "fragmentation of the information offer »And the« existence of platforms such as HBO and Netflix ».

In response to these statements, the director of the entity asked to appear at the Madrid Assembly to defend the «fulfillment of the public service function» . In his statement, López demanded "responsibility" against "partisan action" in order not to "devalue the heritage" of public television and radio.

This has not been the only point of friction between them. After swearing in the post two months ago, Ayuso dispensed with the unwritten rule of granting his first television interview to Telemadrid - as did his predecessors - and chose to go to the set of Ana Rosa's program , in Telecinco.

In the chain they say that the head of the regional government also rejected the invitation to attend the Vuelta al cole program , which her party partner and mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has attended. Nor did he attend the presentation of the new season of the entity last September 17 at the Prado Museum claiming "agenda problems."

There will be no closing

The Ayuso team denies that there have been disagreements and assures that since its appointment it has granted “exclusive interviews” to the public network every 10 days - the last one on the occasion of the special for the October 12 party - and they state that “any request pending will be attended as soon as possible ». In addition, they ensure that the regional government has not considered "at any time" the closure of the entity.

“The president has always defended Telemadrid as a public service and has been willing to help her in her digital transformation and when it comes to dealing with the fragmentation of the audiences that all chains suffer. The only thing he has asked for is the same thing that he asks of any other public service: austerity and rigor in the accounts, since it is the money of all Madrid residents , ” explains an regional spokesman.

Radio Televisión Madrid, with an annual budget of 83 million euros , is governed by a law passed in 2015 that precisely Ayuso was a speaker representing the PP and with which the "depoliticization" of the entity was sought. Since then the director has to be elected with the support of two thirds of the Vallecas Assembly, for a term of six years and it is established that “he will act in the exercise of his office with full independence and neutrality, without being able to receive instructions, guidelines or any other indication of the Government of the Community, political parties or other institutions or entities.

The parliamentary groups of PSOE, Más Madrid and Unidos Podemos on Wednesday accused Ayuso of "attacking, pressuring and harassing" Telemadrid, reports Europa Press. Citizens preferred not to enter the controversy, while Vox has repeatedly asked for the chain to close.

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