Rueda opts for Concepción Pombo, current head of information, to direct autonomous radio and television | Spain

With the law that allows him to impose his already approved candidate, Alfonso Rueda’s PP has proposed to the journalist Concepción Pombo to direct autonomous radio and television. Pombo is currently head of the Information and Documentation Area of ​​the Public Company and embodies a continuous option in an entity hit for years for the complaints of informative manipulation. The popular have put their name on the table in the absence of agreement with the two opposition parties (BNG and PSDEG-PSOE), after negotiations that started just seven days ago. The new Public Media Standard of Galicia allows Rueda to carry out the appointment with its absolute majority and without the need to collect the support of other formations.

The popular defend that Pombo, which has been in the entity for two decades, eight of them in front of information, is a bet “for talent and by the professionals themselves” of the autonomous public media. The journalist would become the first woman to occupy that position and replace Alfonso Sánchez Izquierdo, who has been in the position of Alberto Núñez Feijóo since 2009. The PP argues that it is an “independent and consensus profile.”

The opposition reaction puts it in doubt. The parliamentary viceporte of the BNG, Olalla Rodil, considers that Pombo’s proposal underlines the PP’s commitment “so that the company remains its propaganda terminal.” “The PP never wanted to negotiate anything,” says Rodil. “We are facing the CRTVG more Pepera of history and will continue to be like that. “The PSDEG argues that Pombo is” the direct responsible for the stage of the greatest informative manipulation “of the public media and” of the greatest fall of the audience of their informative services. ” public media ”.

Rueda has started the movements to renew the autonomous radio and television dome after the cause of workplace harassment that was accused of nine members of the management of the entity, among the Sánchez Izquierdo, has been dismissed. The journalist who denounced them, who is a member of the movement that denounces political interference of the Xunta in the work of the workers of these public media, has resorted to the judge’s decision.