Three directors of TVN accuse the maneuver of the right to kidnap Jaime de Aguirre | National

Three members of the Board of Directors of National Television of Chile Máximo Pacheco (PS), Francisco Frei (DC) and Antonio Leal (PPD), issued a public statement to refer to the controversy that arose the executive director of the signal, Jaime de Aguirre .

The above, having known that De Aguirre has signed a millionaire contract and an exit clause with the Socialist and Chairman of the Board, Ricardo Solari, who ever "From the beginning of his term, the current President TVN's Board of Directors Francisco Orrego tried to generate the conditions to cause the departure of Jaime De Aguirre . He first tried to get some of the votes of In failing to do so, he implemented a policy of actual harbadment in the workplace creating instances that directly affect matters that are the sole responsibility of the Board. and pretending to exercise prior censorship of the content of the research programs of the channel (Special Report) in contravention of the letter and the spirit of Article 16 letter d of the TVN Act which confers on the Council the # 39; établisseme rules and general guidelines on programming but gives it no power to determine "Having failed in these attempts and not having the 5 votes required by TVN's law, to achieve its goal of withdrawing the executive director of the chain, Orrego entrusted to the internal controller a report on the conditions of approval of the contract of Jaime de Aguirre and the main leaders of the Cbad, arguing that and they would not have been endorsed in all integrity by the Economic Committee and the Cbad Directory. Mr. Orrego, again in violation of the law, gave the media this report the minutes and other documents and even a minute written by him stating that he must be forced, to through a communication campaign, to give up the executive director ", they add.

" As it goes without saying, Mr. de Aguirre has no responsibility in setting the terms of his contract and his the way this was approved by the Executive Board of TVN . This point was considered by the majority of the Board of Directors at the meeting convened by the President to hear and badyze the controller's report. Ignoring the Council's vote, which obviously absolves De Aguirre of any responsibility, Mr Orrego uses the controller's report for a dirty communication maneuver that has no basis since De Aguirre was not a "These facts lead us to ask the President of the Republic for the dismissal of Mr. Francisco Orrego from his post as President of the Republic. he has not shown in his behavior nor the care, nor the prudence, nor the strict adherence to the TVN law that are part of his responsibilities for the performance of his important functions, for which he does not trust to run a public television that should be at the service of the country and not the majorities of the day, "they concluded.