The full session of the Constitutional Court is expected to declare unconstitutional and void the agreement of the Board and the full session of the Assembly of Madrid that allowed the single reading procedure for the law promoted by Isabel Díaz Ayuso to reform Telemadrid. However, this decision will not affect the content or validity of the law, as has already been reported by 'Cadena SER'.The report, drafted by the president of the court, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, concludes that the procedure chosen violated the fundamental rights of the deputies by limiting their capacity for debate and for the presentation of amendments. The appeal argued that the use of a single reading—an exceptional mechanism that shortens deadlines and eliminates phases of the parliamentary process—prevented the groups from fully exercising their representative function
This draft considers that the Bureau of the Assembly did not sufficiently justify the urgency or simplicity of the rule, requirements necessary to continue with this procedure. Therefore, it declares null and void the agreements that allowed that processing. However, as only the procedure used was appealed and not the content of the reform, the Telemadrid law will remain in force.
Reform under controversy
The reform of Telemadrid was the first law that **Isabel Díaz Ayuso's Government** promoted after winning the regional elections of **2021**. The president then defended the change, assuring that the public channel cost "almost two Zendales per legislature," in reference to the Isabel Zendal hospital. However, the channel's own accounts reflected that the previous year had closed with a **surplus of 4.61 million euros** and that the audience had grown by almost 25%The reform allowed **to dismiss the existing management and modify the control system of the Madrid public radio and television**, reinforcing the regional Executive's capacity to influence its management. As new director general, **José Antonio Sánchez** was appointed, who in 2018 acknowledged before the joint commission of the Congress and the Senate, during the investigation into the Bárcenas papers, **that he appeared in the Popular Party's B accounting** as a recipient of 1,100,000 pesetas in undeclared cash in the years 1994 and 1995