Piñera on the resignation of Orrego to TVN: "Do not ruin the day"

"Do not ruin my day." Such was the sentence chosen by the President of the Republic, Sebastián Piñera, to evade the surprise resignation of the president of the national television directory, Francisco Orrego, in charge.

Piñera was consulted on this subject during a full-square tennis event of the Constitution, as part of a new urban intervention of the "Open Spaces" program of the Ministry of Sports, with a master clbad of tennis.

The first question was about the budget that should be sent from the Congregation today, It was then consulted on the crisis experienced by the public channel, exacerbated by the resignation of the chairman of the board of directors chosen by his government. And his answer was "today, we are in the middle of beauty, sports, tennis, do not waste the day, thank you," he said.

The President's reaction shows that the departure of Orrego took La Moneda by surprise. The representative was appointed on April 10 and had to face for nearly eight months the severe financial crisis and lack of capitalization of the station. Finally, he chose to withdraw and announced his departure in a letter addressed to President Sebastián Piñera last Monday

According to the slogan El Mercurio, Orrego decided to leave the message pleading in favor of the impossibility of & # 39; 39 make the necessary changes to exit the position. of the crisis, given the limited powers that the board of directors would have over the administration of the station.

"I am convinced that even if the management of TVN remains in the hands of the same people who led it to the current crisis., It will not be possible to advance the chain and all the efforts of the council will be ineffective, because the law in force confers on the administration, and in particular the general direction, immobility de facto ", indicates the letter of Orrego. 19659003] "I resign because I find it extremely disturbing and dangerous to leave the expense of the 25 million dollars of public financing to the hands of the same administration as an extraordinary contribution, without real powers having been granted by the majority. members of the board to make profound changes in the management of the chain or to move towards greater transparency in the use of resources, "says the letter.

It should be recalled that at the beginning of this month, the Ministry of Finance approved $ 22.3 million for the extraordinary capitalization of TVN.

"He acted in the worst way"

In one of the first reactions to this output, the representative of the workers of the state-run, the journalist Consuelo Saavedra, put in causes the role of Orrego.

"Francisco Orrego really acted in the worst of ways, with a lack of leadership," said the journalist and board member of the state channel.

In Radio Duna's "Hablemos en Off", Saavedra added that "everything he describes is something I knew that when he got to the station, he knew exactly what the quorums were to remove. the administration, the executive director of the channel in this case.This is nothing that has changed, he knows exactly what is the conformation of the repertoire, how he got to the board and how the rest comes (. ..) he knows that the conformation comes from the Senate, so, all that he is now criticizing the mandate and that the law does not allow him to make the changes, that is to say that he's been on the table since the first day. "

The press syndicate of the channel also expressed its opinion on the departure of Orrego, pointing out via Twitter that" the resignation of Francisco Orrego to TVN's board of directors (which we learned from the press) is the corollary of by an inability to dialogue and a lack of commitment to public television. Leave the chain with losses, a hundred dismissals and are accused of breaking the law. "