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On 22 October 2024, Royal Decree-Law 5/2004 amending the governance model of the state-level public service broadcaster (RTVE) was published. Against the backdrop of a corporate crisis, the public corporation has been in a situation of institutional standstill and its board of directors in a state of provisionality since the resignation of José Manuel Pérez Tornero in September 2022, who was the last president of RTVE elected by the Congress of Deputies. In consideration of this the Spanish Government decided to change the Board of Directors’ composition, increasing the number...

On 17 September, the Spanish government presented its Action Plan for Democracy after it had been approved by the Council of Ministers. This Action Plan for Democracy, announced by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez last July, consists of 31 measures to be implemented over the next three years. It is structured around three main axes: 1) improving government information; 2) strengthening transparency, plurality and responsibility in the media; and 3) reinforcing the transparency of the legislative branch and the electoral system. The measures announced under the second axis are in line with...

On 31 May, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) issued a precautionary measure preventing Meta from implementing two electoral features it had planned to launch in the context of the European Parliament elections: Election Day Information (EDI) and Voter Information Unit (VIU). These functionalities would consist of providing information to Facebook and Instagram users about the European Union elections, based on the processing of their personal data (username, IP address, age, gender, and other information). The precautionary suspension is valid for a maximum period of three months. The...

On 31 May, the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal lodged against the Council of Ministers' resolution authorising an amendment to the statute of the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (RTVE) to grant executive functions to the broadcaster's interim president. Consequently, the current interim president of RTVE, Concepción Cascajosa, can continue, albeit temporarily, at the helm of the public broadcaster. The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the unions USO, UGT, and SI against the Council of Ministers' resolution of 4 October 2022. This resolution amended...

The Spanish government has revived the Proyecto de ley del Cine y de la Cultura Audiovisual (Cinema and Audiovisual Culture Bill) after it was put on hold last year following the dissolution of the Cortes Generales (Congress of Deputies and Senate) and the calling of elections by President Pedro Sanchez in June 2023. Various political groups had already tabled amendments to the bill, which had been endorsed by the Council of Ministers in December 2022 and submitted to parliamentary procedures in March 2023. In particular, the proposal of the right-wing political group Vox was rejected in its entirety....