The role of the Senate and the limits to the regulation by Decree-Law in the process of designation of the management board of the Spanish Broadcasting Corporation and its president as a part of the Parliamentary control on social communications media Commentary on Constitutional Court Judgment 134/2021, of June 24. Concerning Appeal of unconstitutionality num. 3883-2018. (BOE num. 182, of July 31, 2021)

Abstract

We are before a declaration that, aside from reaffirming a very stable doctrine of the Constitutional Court on the requirements of the decrees-laws, specifies, in context to the interpretation of articles 20.3 and 23.2 of the Spanish Constitution, the regulation of the social communications media under the control of the State or any public agency, completing the sentences dictated on this matter, the more recent ones being from years 2017 and 2018. Furthermore, this Sentence states the Senate´s position inside of the Constitutional Structure concerning its participation in the parliamentary control of social communications media, regulated in article 20.3 of the Spanish Constitution, specifically, regarding the designation of the management board of the Spanish Broadcasting Corporation, considering this Chamber´s participation a substantial aspect of said control.