Esquerra Republicana, which stocks an electoral coalition for the Ecu elections with EH Bildu, BNG and Ara Més, began the marketing campaign in Badalona this Thursday and its superstar signing, Tomàs Molina, has been in command of surroundings the bar very top if elected MEP. The previous TV3 weatherman has confident that he has a “undertaking” in Ecu politics and that “in his first 100 days” he’ll paintings to take a look at to get Catalan public tv to take part within the Eurovision Music Contest. “You prefer to that, eh?” the meteorologist requested the just about 200 individuals who got here to hear him and the top of the checklist, Diana Riba.
“What they are saying, what is going to you do to your first hundred days? Neatly, I’ve a dedication with my TV director, Sigfrid Gras, which is to take a look at to place TV3 in Eurovision,” Molina confident earlier than an target market that won the announcement with little applause. The track pageant is arranged by way of the Ecu Broadcasting Union (EBU), a global publicly owned and public carrier media entity and the place the one Spanish member is Radio Televisión Española. There is not any particular courting between the Ecu Parliament and the EBU. Only for broadcasting and collaborating, RTVE paid 347,000 euros in 2023, to which the price of the candidate’s display would should be added.
“Once I make a dedication, I would like you to keep in mind that I in point of fact do it,” Molina insisted. The recognition of the previous climate presenter is without doubt one of the playing cards with which Esquerra hopes to avoid wasting itself from the fourth consecutive electoral defeat. ERC’s choice to profit from this asset is that even within the marketing campaign posters, Molina seems within the foreground even supposing the primary from the checklist is Riba.
Gras has now not been the one director of the Catalan Audiovisual Media Company (CCMA), the entity that directs the Catalan public media, which Molina discussed in his speech. “Any other of the commitments I’ve, this time with the director of the Governing Council (of the Company) Rosa Romà, is that the Europe of languages is within the media of the long run.” “Right here we Catalans aren’t mindundis, we’re extra necessary than the Swedes and the Croats,” the candidate added to discuss with the burden of Catalan in Europe.
The Skilled Council of Information and Sports activities of TV3 already printed a observation on April 15 during which it expressed the discomfort within the group of workers because of Molina’s choice to be a candidate for Esquerra within the Ecu elections. “When a visual face of TV3 places himself on the carrier of a birthday party, he overshadows the nice paintings that information execs attempt to do on a daily basis exactly to keep this distance,” mentioned the textual content, which additionally identified the presenter’s constitutional proper to be eligible.
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