PSD activist controls Nikolaou’s RTP spending

Sonia Alegre will take over financial responsibility for public television, joining Nicolau Santos and Hugo Figueiredo.

board of directors RTP It is already composed. President Nicolau Santos and member Hugo Figueiredo are already known names, as announced by the Council. RTP Even before the elections. The news is in the financial section, now occupied by Sonia Alegre, an active PSD activist. Although this choice was made by the Independent General Council (CGI) of the public broadcaster, it included – as usual – the prior and binding opinion of the Ministry of Finance, currently headed by Joaquim Miranda Sarmiento.

Sonia Alegre has been linked to the banking sector for more than two decades, specifically at the service of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, and to take up this project at the public station she left Transportes Metropolitanos de Lisboa, where she also held the position of Director in charge of Financial Management, Planning and Control as well as ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems and Services), Legal Management and Human Resources.

Changes to the public station?

The choices of the company’s board of directors are known. RTPIts members have been heard in parliament and the public station could soon see changes. The person who ensured this is Nicolau Santos, who says it is necessary to look at the concession contract and understand whether “It makes sense these days” The eight TV channels and seven radio channels. The chairman justifies this idea with the increasingly frequent transition to digital, a trend, he says, that affects not only RTP: “It is necessary to look at the franchise contract. (…) “To see if the eight TV channels we have and the seven radio channels we have make sense today, if they should be, if they should be different, if we can add content, if we can ultimately change what we do.”.

But it is also necessary to take into account that it is also “It is mandatory to maintain the sustainability of the company.” – which has had positive results over the past 14 years – and “A completely controlled religion”.

The new official also defends the changes and who they are for. “It is necessary to somehow adapt the objectives to the current funding.”Considering that 80% of revenues depend on audiovisual contribution. Sonia Alegre agrees with Nicolau Santos and also says that more investment in technology is needed.