Rosa María Mateo has made her position available to the President of the Government, as EL MUNDO has been able to confirm, although she has not submitted her resignation. The sole provisional administrator, at the head of the public corporation since the summer of 2018, assured in February of last year before the mixed commission of parliamentary control that he would leave his post of maximum responsibility "at the time that elections are held and there is new Government ", an assertion that reiterated last summer asked about it by the PP.

Last week, the main opposition party asked Mateo again for the fulfillment of that promise; He did so by means of the parliamentary question, practically the only control tool that exists today on the administrator, who enjoys plenipotentiary powers because there is no board of directors to which he must be accountable.

Two weeks after the inauguration of Pedro Sánchez and one week after the formation of the new Government and the first meeting of the Council of Ministers, Mateo remains the sole provisional administrator. He has not submitted his resignation , although he has made his position available to Pedro Sánchez.

In the investiture debate, the president did not address the reconfiguration of the public network, nor in the interview granted to TVE itself on Monday. However, Sánchez did consider the renewal of RTVE a priority when he first acceded to the Government, so much so that his first reform agreed with Podemos, of June 2017, was dedicated to the reform of radio television.

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The difficulties in carrying out a public tender that configures a board of directors and a president of RTVE, paved the way for Sanchez's action, who appointed Mateo for an unpublished position, an appointment that was then voted favorably by the Plenary of the Congress.

The express renewal sponsored by the PSOE eradicated the previous board of directors and the presidency of José Antonio Sánchez, sponsored by the PP as president of the corporation and the board of directors of the same. Despite the provisional nature of the charge, Mateo changed more than fifty positions during his first month at RTVE, in the middle of summer. The public contest is paralyzed while waiting for Parliament, but it also faces about thirty resources from non-shortlisted candidates. The journalist who had garnered the highest rating, Alicia G. Montano, passed away last week.

In this scenario, Mateo has already extended his supposedly provisional work for a year and a half, so the popular parliamentary group has presented a new question to the Congressional Roundtable: "Once the new Government is constituted, will the sole administrator of RTVE and will present his immediate resignation, as he announced in his last appearance at parliamentary headquarters, on February 28, 2019, when he said: 'At the time the elections are held, and there is Government, I will present my immediate resignation' " . As this newspaper has learned, Mateo has not submitted his resignation, but he has placed his position at the disposal of the head of Government.

Asked by the PP

The regulation of the Congress specifies that the answer in writing to the parliamentary questions must be made within 20 days after the publication, a period of time extendable for another 20 days at the motivated request of the Government and by agreement of the Bureau of the Congress.

Since there is no mixed commission of parliamentary control or a board of directors that meets and votes on the decisions of the administrator, control over the work of the administrator is limited to parliamentary questions . Last July, the PP deputy Macarena Montesinos already asked a similar question to Mateo, who then reiterated: "I keep the commitment I made in my appearance before the Congress", that is, the "immediate resignation" once they will hold elections and government will be formed. For now, his position is available to Pedro Sánchez.

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