the spokeswoman Camila Vallejoin the company of the three TVN unions, announced the nomination of the journalist Rodrigo Cid as a member of the channel board. It is the first time that a worker would integrate the instance; The Senate must approve the appointment. Vallejo also ruled out a supposed inability of Cid to hold office, according to the former deputy Gabriel Ascencio (DC).
“In its 53 years of history as a channel, TVN has not been able to have workers on its board with the right to vote, and it would be the first time that those who contribute with their work and talent to the development of the channel, incorporate with full powers in the management of the national channel, in its directory”.
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According to the spokesperson, Cid “graduated in journalism from the Austral University, has developed 20 years of work in the national channel, with an important career in journalism, as a reporter, in a line of extremely important investigative work on human rights. human, of social justice”.
In addition, he highlighted that Cid received an award for Journalism, Human Rights Memory, awarded by the College of Journalists and the Museum of Memory.
Government rules out disability
After the journalist’s nomination was known yesterday, the former deputy Gabriel Ascencio (DC) affirmed that current legislation would prevent Cid’s integration into the board of directors of the state signal.
“Unfortunately, the appointment of a great journalist like Rodrigo Cid could not be. In another disintelligence of the government, they did not notice that the channel’s workers have an inability to take on the channel’s board of directors. Very bad,” said the former parliamentarian on his social networks.
In the publication, which was later deleted, Ascencio cited article 4 of point 2 of Law 19,132, which establishes that “those who maintain contractual relations with Televisión Nacional de Chile or with any of its competitors with respect to activities that fall within the company’s line of business”.
Spokeswoman Vallejo today ruled out such inability. “What the TVN law establishes are disqualifications with respect to those who have civil or commercial contracts, that is how the norm is inspired (…) This does not apply to labor contracts,” she affirmed.
“It is designed to avoid conflicts of interest in the business of companies, producers, etc.,” he emphasized.
