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Podemos will run out of free electoral propaganda spaces on RTVE during the campaign of the regional and municipal elections of May 28 for not meeting the minimum requirements set out in the electoral law. The Radio and Television Commission of the Central Electoral Board has approved this Thursday the distribution of times with the practically unanimous support of the political parties. Only the purple formation and UPN have positioned themselves against and have announced their intention to appeal this distribution.

In the case of Podemos, the argument for running out of spots on public television and radio is that their candidacies do not get to present themselves before at least 50% of the Spanish population, as required by Article 188 of the Electoral Law. And this is because the purple party and the coalitions in which it participates, which are mostly with IU, adopt names of the most diverse in the autonomous communities and municipalities. So there is no unitary denomination.

For this reason, Podemos was already left out yesterday of the original distribution of times that was addressed at the headquarters of RTVE in Madrid, where the guidelines and criteria set by the Electoral Law were applied. That draft has been approved now, a day later, with the support of 14 political formations and with the only oppositions of Podemos and UPN. On the other hand, parties of all kinds have expressed themselves in favor, such as PSOE, PP, Vox, Ciudadanos, ERC, EH Bildu, Compromís, Coalición Canaria, Nueva Canarias or BNG, among others.

"Undemocratic" decision

One of the two purple representatives, Juan Moreno Redondo, and the Navarrese, Ángel Ansa Echegaray, have recorded during the meeting their opposition to the distribution, as well as their willingness to file an appeal with the Central Electoral Board. Already the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, had denounced a few hours before that it was an "undemocratic" decision and that she attributed it to an attempt by the bipartisanship that controls RTVE"v to "shield itself".

As can be read in the minutes of the meeting of the commission, Citizens has expressed its "surprise" by the rejection of Podemos and those complaints when it had not presented objections the day before, when the first distribution of times was made at the headquarters of RTVE.

The times of free propaganda on RTVE are as follows: 45 minutes for PSOE and PP, 30 minutes for Citizens and 14 for Vox. This distribution is marked by the results in the 2019 elections.

The meeting of the representatives of the parties that make up the Radio and Television Commission has been held in one of the rooms of the Congress and the erasure has practically been ratified with only minimal retouching.

  • Articles Álvaro Carvajal
  • TVE
  • Can
  • Citizenry
  • Vox
  • PSOE
  • UPN
  • IU
  • Bildu
  • Compromís
  • Canary Coalition
  • New Canary Islands
  • BNG

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