• Destitución.Fernando Garea, in his resignation as president of Efe: "A public news agency is not a government agency"

The PP believes that the sudden dismissal of Fernando Garea as president of Efe is further proof that the Pedro Sánchez Executive wants to put public institutions at his service, denying them neutrality. And that is why he wants to promote a reform so that the appointment of the top leader of the news agency depends on a broad consensus in the Congress of Deputies, and not on the discretion of the Venezuelan government .

"The fulminating dismissal of the head of the Efe agency is a very clear example of the Government's willingness to submit public institutions to its partisan power, to its partisan dictates and to its partisan objectives," denounced today at the Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo Congress , after the meeting of the Board of Spokespersons .

The spokeswoman for the Popular Parliamentary Group in the Lower House has emphasized that her party will continue trying to boost her initiative "so that the appointment of the president of the Efe agency starts from a large parliamentary agreement." When it was proposed a year ago to change the formula for appointing the head of Efe, the PSOE "did not sign" the letter, "I do not know if due to lack of conviction or whatever," recalled Álvarez de Toledo, who added that "Let's see what he does now" United Podemos, which at that time did support the initiative.

For the spokesman of the PP in the Senate, Javier Maroto, the cessation of Garea, which was communicated to him in an establishment of the Knee chain , "is determined to make a Venezuelan government", seeking greater "control" over the media. "First it was the control of the State Attorney General's Office , now he is interested in the control of the media and what will be the following?" He asked.

Javier Maroto has stressed that the Spaniards "should know that we have a Venezuelan government that makes things very similar to what we have known in that Spanish-American republic." "It is important that we all raise our voices so that control over the media, which is something that is envisioned in this Government, does not end up becoming a reality," he added.

In 2018, the PSOE undertook to present a bill that regulates the election of the president of the Efe agency by a qualified majority of the Congress of Deputies. This was approved by the Federal Executive Commission of the PSOE on RTVE . But now the Executive is limited to saying that this reform is not in the coalition government agreement with Podemos.

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  • Javier Maroto
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  • Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo
  • Pedro Sanchez

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