Chair of RTVE

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Chair of RTVE
Presidente de RTVE
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since 2 December 2024
Spanish Radio and Television Corporation
Style The Most Excellent
Member ofRTVE Board
Reports to Congress of Deputies
RTVE Board
Seat Prado del Rey, Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid). Spain
Appointer Congress of Deputies
Term length Six years, no renewable
Constituting instrumentRadio and Television of State Ownership Act of 2006
PrecursorDirector-General of RTVE
First holderLuis Fernández Fernández
Salary €216,142.19 annually (2021) [1]

The Chair of RTVE, officially Chair of the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation, is the head of the RTVE Corporation and of the RTVE Board. The chair of RTVE is the chief executive of the corporation and chairs the Board, convene its meetings and execute its guidelines. The chair is appointed by the majority of the Congress of Deputies.

Contents

Currently, the office is held by José Pablo López. [2]

Powers

The powers of the chair of the RTVE Board and of the RTVE Corporation are regulated in Section II of the Radio and Television of State Ownership Act of 2006: [3]

Delegation of powers

In accordance with article 21 of the Radio and Television of State Ownership Act, the Board may delegate to the President any other power of the Board, which will require the approval of the majority of two thirds of its components. However, the law itself limits this delegation; the Board cannot delegate its powers in matters related to the appointment of first-level personnel, to economic-budgetary matters, to internal control bodies, those related to the fundamental right of Article 20.3 of the Constitution or the proposal to remove a member of the Board.

Appointment, removal and sole administrator

Appointment

In accordance with Royal Decree-Law 4/2018, of June 22, which specifies, urgently, the legal regime applicable to the designation of the Board of the RTVE Corporation and its Chair, the Congress of Deputies is the body responsible for electing the Chair of the Corporation and of the Board, by a two-thirds majority, among the ten members that make up the Board. If this majority is not reached and, after 48 hours, the Congress must vote again and an absolute majority will be sufficient to confirm the candidate to Chair of RTVE. [4]

Removal

The removal of the chair of the Corporation complies with the general requirements for the removal of the rest of the members of the Board:

Sole administrator

The position of sole administrator is a figure included in the Capital Companies Act of 2010. The sole administrator is a position that assumes all the powers of a company for its administration. [5] The Radio and Television of State Ownership Act includes this possibility, although in its article 22 it prohibits that the Chair of the Corporation that has been removed, along with the rest of the Board, due to a bad economic management may occupy this position.

In 2018, a reform was introduced in the form of the election of the chair, which requires that if after fifteen days, there were still not enough majorities to appoint the Board members, the Government shall propose a sole provisional administrator to assume the powers of both the Board and the Chair of the Corporation with the same previous procedure. This Sole Provisional Administrator shall be responsible for the administration and representation of the Corporation until the appointments of the Board members occur. [4] This exceptional clause was first used on 27 July 2018, naming Rosa María Mateo as sole administrator with 180 votes in favor of the 350 possible. [6] As such, Mateo assumed all the powers of the chairship and the Board of Directors until the appointment of a new Chair on 26 March 2021.

List of chairs

Director Generals of Radiodifusión y Televisión

Director General of Organismo Autónomo RTVE

Director Generals of Ente Público RTVE

President of Corporación RTVE

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References

  1. ↑ RTVE (2021-09-30). "Remuneración presidente". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  2. 1 2 RTVE (2024-11-28). "José Pablo López, elegido por el Congreso nuevo presidente de RTVE". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  3. ↑ "Radio and Television of State Ownership Act of 2006". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  4. 1 2 "Royal Decree-Law 4/2018, of June 22, which specifies, urgently, the legal regime applicable to the appointment of the Board of Directors of the RTVE Corporation and its Chair". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  5. ↑ "Capital Companies Act of 2010". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  6. 1 2 Alberola, Miquel; Gómez, Rosario G. (2018-07-27). "Rosa María Mateo, administradora de RTVE tras lograr el 'sí' del Congreso". El País (in Spanish). ISSN   1134-6582 . Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  7. ↑ Agencias (22 October 2014). "El Congreso designa a José Antonio Sánchez nuevo presidente de RTVE". El País (in Spanish). PRISA . Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  8. ↑ Periódico, El (2021-03-25). "José Manuel Pérez Tornero, elegido por el Congreso como presidente de RTVE". elperiodico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  9. ↑ Méndez, Marcos (2022-09-27). "Elena Sánchez Caballero, nueva presidenta de RTVE tras la dimisión de Tornero". Vertele (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-27.
  10. ↑ Llanos Martínez, Héctor (27 March 2024). "Concepción Cascajosa, apasionada espectadora y académica de la televisión que salta a la presidencia interina de RTVE". El País (in Spanish).
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