“We are satisfied with the decision not to broadcast this program, although we understand that Televisión Canaria should never have considered it.” It is the reflection that the insular group of Sí Podemos Canarias exposes through the social network Twitter. In addition, they add from the purple formation: “We await the explanations of Francisco Moreno – sole administrator of Televisión Canaria – to clarify this whole matter.” He concludes that “he has announced that he will do so before the Parliament of the Canary Islands and we remain awaiting.”
The counselor and spokesperson of the group in the Cabildo, María José Belda has publicly expressed her “surprise” at the announcement of the television program with Arriaga as an interviewer. He considers that “his responsibilities in the Island Corporation and the importance of the areas he manages make it seem incomprehensible to us.” And he concludes: “He seems to want more prominence and to be in the spotlight than to work for the Island.” He announces that “we will ask in the Plenary Committee or internally if he needs some compatibility to exercise these new functions of which we learn from the press.”
“Politically incorrect”
Manuel Fernández, deputy spokesman for the Popular Party in the Cabildo, understands that «The only one who does not see this as something politically incorrect is Enrique Arriaga, despite the fact that Televisión Canaria itself backed down and decided to suspend the program ». Values that “in an implicit way it is a recognition of the bad ways to use public resources so that an active politician makes propaganda and self-aggrandizement”.
“This in a political bar in the media field”, Fernández sentence, in the opinion of which “Arriaga himself assures that he does interviews with prestigious people and, nevertheless, includes some of the personnel hand-picked in a certain public company of the Cabildo, that Arriaga himself presides ”. The insular councilor of the popular considers “even more regrettable that these programs were directed by trusted personnel, hand-picked by the president.”
Fernández describes this fact as “scandalous” and affirms that it is “surprising” to him that “we still do not know what assessment the president of the Cabildo, of the Socialist Party (Pedro Martín) makes.” On this, it is pronounced in a forceful way: «Neither is nor is expected», as well as «in other moments in which Arriaga has been the protagonist of notorious scandals, without any reaction from the PSOE, which values an armchair more than the little prestige that can be left.
The deputy spokesman for the popular also misses “a more forceful response from Podemos, which, although it has reacted, is in a position to demand responsibility for this improper use of public resources, as the party that supports the government pact in the Cabildo.” .
Fernández remembers that “The Popular Party already opposed in the last mandate that the government that then formed the PSOE and the Canary Coalition to start up a television of the Insular Corporation with money from all the people of Tenerife”, something “of what the PSOE denied upon reaching the Presidency and that, together with Ciudadanos, they suppressed, because as they literally said: a government is not there to become self-aggrandizing.” Following this reflection, Manuel Fernández demands “that they now explain what the difference is between that and recording programs with resources from the Cabildo to broadcast on public television.”
‘Divergent minds’
Last Thursday, the Cabildo de Tenerife announced the agreement it reached with the Canary Islands Television (RTVC) to broadcast the program Divergent minds, which consists of ten ten-minute episodes in which the vice president and island councilor for Innovation interviews ten “prestigious and recognized leaders in the education, youth, innovation, and culture sectors. research and new technologies ”, as explained.
«I already spoke at the time. I have nothing more to say on this issue, “he responded yesterday to the interest of this newspaper to obtain his opinion on the current situation. Previously, and about the suspension of the broadcast of the program, at COPE he clarified the day before yesterday: “I don’t know what Canary Television is going to do next week.” «I don’t know if it is going to be broadcast or not. We do not have any contract, we have given the material. Canary Television has neither paid nor charged anything for a material that has been given to it free of charge, ”Arriaga pointed out.
CC in the Cabildo asks for “information”
CC-PNC in the Cabildo has requested “information” about the TVAC program. The nationalist formation qualifies the initiative as “not very suitable”, since it seems made “for mere display and self-propaganda as a candidate for Ciudadanos.” CC wants “to know all the details and to know if Pedro Martín authorized the financing.” “Once we have the information, we will act accordingly” they conclude.
