A demand states that the public system is not transparent with its inter -administrative agreements, which in 2024 added $ 85.7 billion.
The Foundation for the Rule of Law, an Oenegé that in the past has already opposed several measures of the government of Gustavo Petro – like the popular consultation or resolution that set the increase in the payment unit per capitation for this year—,, He filed a popular action against the National Television Radio of Colombia (RTVC)the public media system.
The conglomerate of state media, which currently managed the ally Petro Hollman Morris, Now he faces a process before the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca, which on August 22 admitted the lawsuit And that in September he has received several memorials regarding the hiring of RTVC, which would be deviating from the entity’s mission.
The demand reproaches that RTVC resorts to inter -administrative agreementsTo choose by finger private operators that end up fulfilling tasks that would not be inside of the purpose of radio television as a society. The Foundation sees practice as a “intermediation vehicle to avoid the objective selection regime”, which would be more rigorous.
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RTVC committed to several government agencies to function as a logistics company. Last year he signed an inter -administrative contract with colpensions for, between July 2024 and June 2025, providing “integral” as “servicesDesign Operator, Production and actions and initiative strategy “, which included renting platforms.
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The agreement with the State Pension Fund works, at least in the file against the media system, as an example of the tasks that RTVC had to apparently comply outside its corporate purpose, such as Rent fences, tents, chairs, tables and tablecloths, in addition to offering food. To fulfill its duties, the entity subcontracted to private third parties.
The RTVC plant had 2023 with Just sixty employees compared to more than 1,800 service provision contractswhich creates risks of covert labor relations. According to the human talent coordination of the system, which cites the lawsuit before the court, no member of the plant is dedicated exclusively to inter -administrative agreements.
According to the Foundation, the Radio Televisión contracting pattern of Colombia Vulnera Administrative morality, public heritage and free competition Economic, because the government company would not be offering adequate advertising for its agreements, which in turn would seriously compromise their finances and promote finger contracts.
For RTVC, on the other hand, the scenario is different. The defense of society presented a twenty -eight -pages letter on September 18 arguing that He has not committed “corruption, undue favoritism, deviation of power” or “opacity in management”. Nor, he states, “there is evidence of any damage to public assets derived from hiring.”
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The main legal armor that the company led by Morris has is that its corporate purpose is “broad”, as described in its writing, what “It allows you to intervene in all phases of the content value chain of audio, video and digital content, as well as hire related services and indispensable logistics to fulfill your mission. ”
Fabio Iván Afanador, magistrate of the First Section of the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca, will be in charge of responding to popular action. The last document that his office received was, on September 23, a pronouncement of the Foundation for the Rule of Lawwhich insisted that the judicial entity order RTVC to be more transparent.
The Foundation, in addition, asked the Court a statement by Fabián Romero, fiscal reviewer of Nexia Montes & Asociados, the company that reviewed the financial statements of 2024 of RTVC. Express demand for the system’s financial capacity, whichLast year he reported income of $ 363.7 million, of which was a profit of just $ 39.5 million.
“These figures reflect narrow operating margins and persistent fragility” in the economic sustainability of RTVC, holds the demand, which aspires that The court orders RTVC “to refrain from signing inter -administrative contracts whose purpose is not directly related to its missionary object” or that cannot execute with own resources without third parties.
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