IU and Podemos have filed an appeal with the Central Electoral Board against the design of theSpanish Radio and Television Coverage Plan (RTVE) for the campaign of the regional and municipal elections of May 28, which only reserves to their coalitions 1% of the information blocks that will be included in the Telediarios.

This same Saturday both formations have registered their brief of allegations in which they argue that the aforementioned coverage plan prepared by the public entity "violates the constitutional principles of political pluralism and proportionality".

Last Thursday it transpired that the distribution of RTVE informative times, where the two major parties account for half of the minutes that are issued, 29.38% for the PSOE and 22.77% for the PP, and the rest is distributed among the other parties that exceeded 1% of the votes four years ago.

Podemos and IU enter the distribution by the minimum, since they are below the 1.23% of Adelante Andalucía, 1.44% of En Comú, 1.52% of Compromís, 1.77% of the PNV, 2.30% of Más Madrid, 3.63% of Vox or 8.63% of Ciudadanos, among others.

Given this, Podemos and IU shell go together in coalition to these elections in the "practically all of the State" and that, despite this, the corporation gives it a time in the information blocks of 1.08% of the votes obtained in the municipal elections of 2019.

In addition, he reproaches that for this RTVE imputes a third of the votes of the coalition Unidas Podemos-IU-Equo in the elections of four years ago to this last political party, which implies ignoring the votes obtained by "different candidacies that undoubtedly" that also formed Podemos and IU.

Therefore, the appeal sentences that it is "reduced" and "hidden" in this way in the criteria to prepare the coverage plan of the public entity the "political support they received from tens of thousands of citizens" in 2019.

Likewise, the two political formations deepen their disagreement because, in their opinion, RTVE bases its distribution of informative times strictly on the 2019 coalition that formed Podemos, IU and Equo and that they are assigned a third of the votes of the latter formation.

In this way, he explains that in 2019 this confluence obtained a total of 366,594 votes, which represented 1.62% of the total votes on candidacies and a revenue of 481 elected councilors.

Therefore, and before the "iniquitous" proposal of RTVE, the resource deepens that the coalition agreement that was registered in 2019 specifies that all the rights of representation and electoral subsidies fall one hundred percent on Podemos and IU, so the weight of Equo was zero percent in this section.

It also reasons that the number of councilors of Equo on the total of the 481 councilors obtained jointly were five seats, while the remaining 476 were divided between Podemos and IU.

Moreover, he emphasizes that the Electoral Board has various doctrinal resolutions, based on the criteria of the rights of representation in the coalition, which leads to assign 100% of the votes obtained to both Podemos and IU, when in addition the reality is that 99% of the councilors obtained were from both political forces.

In short, the appeal claims to the Junta Electoral that the votes and percentages obtained in the municipal elections of 2019 are fully imputed to Podemos and IU be respected in the RTVE news coverage plan, in order to reconfigure the distribution of spaces in the informative monitoring of 28M.

That is, that at least it is taken into account in the coverage of RTVE to Podemos and IU equivalent to the 366,594 votes that that coalition of 2019 had and the time attributed to the third of the votes of said confluence is withdrawn from Equo, that the design of the public entity is assigned "unduly".

However, he adds that the corporation has "ignored" the different candidacies presented by IU and Podemos to the 2019 elections, both alone and in other coalition formulas, when it comes to capturing the "real weight" of the two political formations to make their informative quota.

  • IU
  • Can
  • TVE
  • Equo
  • United We Can
  • Citizenry
  • To:
  • More Country
  • More Madrid
  • PNV
  • Compromís
  • Forward Andalusia
  • PP
  • PSOE

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