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Updated Wednesday, March 27, 2024-09:49

  • RTVE Moncloa pressured "by land, sea and air" to sign David Broncano: this is how the dismissal of Elena Sánchez was planned

The Government is trying to distance itself from the controversy unleashed within RTVE that ended this Tuesday with two dismissals in just one hour: that of

Elena Sánchez

, acting president of the public corporation, and that of the Director of Contents,

José Pablo López

. "The directors of this Board of Directors, of course, are independent: this means that they are working with the criteria that they understand mark the professional path of the entity," said the first vice president of the central Executive, María Jesús Montero, this Wednesday.

According to EL MUNDO, the trigger for this internal crisis would have been the pressure from La Moncloa "by land, sea and air" for the signing of comedian

David Broncano

to go ahead, according to various sources familiar with the entire process. The objective would be for the program

La Resistencia

to compete in the same time slot with that of

Pablo Motos,

not so much to take away audience from Antena 3 but to reduce the impact that

El Hormiguero

has on public opinion.

"What the Government and all social actors expect is that this governance crisis that began yesterday will be closed and that, therefore, a new presidency will emerge from today's meeting that will allow us to continue working to make the project of a plural, diverse public television, which provides a service to all citizens, a reality," Montero limited himself to pointing out in an interview on

RNE

.

Furthermore, the

number two

of Pedro Sánchez's Executive and vice-secretary of the PSOE is confident that "a few minutes" after the new meeting of the Board of Directors begins this Wednesday, the person who will replace Sánchez at the helm will have been chosen. of the corporation and that "allows us to continue accompanying this entity in pursuit of the plurality that public television must pursue, which, of course, must have quality as its flag and must have programming that responds to the expectations of the citizens and that allows audience levels in line with the objectives that television itself has set.