Mazón negotiated the direction of Valencian television in the middle of DANA while the PP accuses Sánchez of not paralyzing the reform of RTVE

The PP was enraged when the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, decided to maintain the debate and vote on the new RTVE board last Wednesday, October 30, despite having suspended the control session for the DANA victims in Valencia. The anger of the popular people came to be staged with their absence from the plenary session and from the vote itself. And Alberto Núñez Feijóo summoned the press for a solemn declaration of condemnation for not respecting the victims, who then numbered around fifty.

“I ask the Government to convene an extraordinary Council of Ministers and declare national mourning. And that the Plenary Session is not held. “We are not going to participate because of the hypocrisy of suspending the ordinary plenary session and, without scruples, calling an extraordinary plenary session for the control of RTVE,” he denounced. It was noon on Wednesday, October 30.

The day before, Tuesday the 29th, was when the worst cold drop on record flooded a good part of the province of Valencia, with a current toll of more than 200 dead, dozens missing, and a still uncalculated figure of damage. in homes, businesses and infrastructure. And just that day, in the critical hours in which he was absent from the command bridge of the crisis, the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, decided to lock himself in for a meal with the journalist Maribel Vilaplana to offer her the direction of A Punt, the regional television from Valencia.

Information that both Mazón, the Generalitat and the Valencian PP have tried to hide all these days. The appointment did not appear in the official agenda of the president, who first said that it was a “private” meal and then assured that it was for “work.” Mazón also assured that he had eaten with the head of the Valencian employers’ association, Salvador Navarro, who denied him

Mazón arrived two hours late to the key CECOPI meeting after all that food was untraceable for the members of his own Government.

At the moment, no one from the PP has come out in public to criticize or discredit the quote from his fellow member who kept him outside the management of the DANA. But criticism of Pedro Sánchez’s Executive for the RTVE vote ten days ago has continued.

“Unfortunately we did not achieve the total suspension of the Plenary at that time. The Government and its partners wanted to continue with this assault on the control of Radiotelevisión Española that we deeply regret. A spectacle in which we did not want to participate and that is why we rose in plenary session showing, firstly, our solidarity with the victims and with all their families and secondly, our resounding opposition to what was happening there at that time. , trying to suspend that plenary session,” said the parliamentary spokesperson for the popular parties, Miguel Tellado, this Thursday.

Tellado appeared after the weekly meeting of the board of spokespersons and did not abandon that refrain during his speech. “The priority in these two weeks of parliamentary activity has been to urgently undertake the appointment of the new Board of Directors of Radiotelevisión Española to give away positions on that Board to its government partners. And, of course, the Popular Party is clear about what our priority issue has to be these days and at this moment it is not going to be the distribution of positions on public boards of directors.”

The day before, Cuca Gamarra insisted on the criticism. “The path that Valencia is asking for is the one that each and every one of those affected deserves and the one that all Spaniards must travel together. Of course, the path is not the one shown by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Socialist Party these days: assault Radiotelevisión Española.”

This morning, Tellado himself insisted on Twitter with his argument. “The Government and its partners refuse to suspend the Plenary Session, they only agree to eliminate the Government’s control after the DANA tragedy: consummate their assault on RTVE,” he wrote.