The fact that the second highest office of the Cabildo de Tenerife presents a series of 10 interviews on the public channel, which have already been recorded, has sparked a controversy. The groups of Sí Podemos, CC and PP in the Cabildo de Tenerife have rebelled against Arriaga’s decision. “Scandalous”, “incomprehensible” and “shameful” are some of the qualifiers of these three parties to the new facet of presenter of the Citizen representative, with which they consider that he “wants to promote himself.” CC has even taken the case to the Parliament of the Canary Islands.
Enrique Arriaga yesterday rejected the “public lynching” that he claims to be suffering. “I do not understand this public lynching when the program has not yet been released. I only ask that you see the program first and then give your opinion “, clarified the vice president of the Tenerife Council, to underline that” it is not Aló Presidente “, referring to the weekly space offered on Venezuelan public television by former president Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013 «I am not a journalist and it has not been my purpose. It is a dialogue with leaders of innovation on the Island, ”Arriaga made clear.
Divergent Minds is the result of an agreement between the Cabildo de Tenerife and Televisión Canaria. It consists of ten episodes, each lasting ten minutes, in which the vice president “interviews in a relaxed manner” with ten prestigious and recognized leaders in the education, youth, innovation, culture, research and new technologies sectors. assured the communiqué with which the Insular Corporation informed of this new space.
The parties that have charged against Arriaga accuse him of «use a public channel to promote its image “, instead of focusing on his work as the second highest position in the Corporation. “Arriaga seems to be more concerned about being the protagonist and being under the attention of the population than about working for the benefit of the Island,” said María José Belda, counselor of Sí Podemos. The PP also showed its rejection. Manuel Fernández, believes that “this is an example of how the public money of this Cabildo is used to set up a political bar in the form of a television program with the sole purpose of becoming self-styled.”
Although it was suspended, the first interview can be seen from yesterday on mentesdivergentes.org. The space was filmed outside the Research Support Service (Segai) of the ULL0. They are all black and white.
Apologies from Francisco Moreno
The director of Canarian Radiotelevision (RTVC), Francisco Moreno, spoke yesterday through Twitter about the controversy of the program that the public entity has announced and presented by Enrique Arriaga, vice president of the Cabildo. «RTVC has not signed anyone who is dedicated to politics to act as a presenter. There is no document that can prove it. And whoever has said it cannot support it in facts, has not asked about it and only intends to do personal harm and to the environment, ”says Moreno. The director of Canarian TV wants to make it clear that “RTVC has neither paid nor charged anything for a material that has been given to it in which it talks with very prominent personalities from science and the University.” In reference to the criticism of Arriaga’s participation, he points out that “those who are scandalized speak of something that they have neither seen nor will see on this radio television in the terms they express.” “No politician will do what a journalist has to do,” he stresses. “It is true that, given the circumstances, I should have reflected in advance on how we would use this material and in what way, and I apologize publicly for this,” adds the director of RTVC, to detail that “once the presentation was over, we had already decided that we would only offer the most interesting answers and we would compose them with strict informative interest, and without any prominence from any politician ». “If they had waited to see the program, when it was broadcast,” he explains about those who have criticized it, “they would have seen reality.” But that doesn’t matter. Only the prefabricated scandal was interested, “he concludes.
