RTVE has decided to postpone the opposition process for the informant category that was scheduled to take place during this Sunday morning and will communicate a new date in the coming days.
“By For reasons of force majeure, the exam to fill positions in the occupation type/specialty of Information and Content is postponed. scheduled for today, September 29, 2024, with the new summons to the test being announced in the coming days,” RTVE reported in a statement.
For its part, the USO RTVE union has explained that this decision has been made by the management of the RTVE Corporation together with all the unions “after detecting a leak in the test questions.”
The union understands that this decision “it is necessary to guarantee transparency and equal opportunities in a process that has already been presenting numerous problems”.
The union regrets the inconvenience that this suspension causes to the candidates, many of them who came from outside Madrid to take the test, and supports “the company’s decision to file a complaint with the police to clarify the facts and demand accountability.” .
“Shame”: those affected protest on social networks
Several thousand opponents were scheduled this Sunday for the test that was going to be held on the Somosaguas campus of the Complutense University of Madrid. Many have had to leave the facilities when they found out about the suspension of the test minutes before it was to begin.
The people waiting to take the test have demanded at the doors of the different faculties that someone come out to give explanations, and have criticized that they found out about the suspension of the exam sooner through social networks than through an official communication. Precisely, many of them have shown their indignation through messages they have posted on the social network X, formerly Twitter. “It’s a real shame”; “No one has come out to show their face“; “Thousands of journalists who have been preparing for the RTVE informant exams for years find out 30 minutes before the exam that it has been postponed due to a leak of questions. Incredible”; have been some of the angry messages they have written.
Thousands of journalists who have been preparing for the RTVE informant exams for years find out 30 minutes into the exam that it IS POSTPONED due to a leak of questions. Incredible. pic.twitter.com/8tj1bLXm6H
— Mateo Sánchez (@MateoSanchezTV) September 29, 2024
More than 5 thousand people from all over Spain and abroad have been left without taking the exam. #RTVE Oppositions for alleged leak of questions.
Nobody has come forward to show their face and we found out through social media and an hour later by email. According to RTVE due to “force majeure” pic.twitter.com/aMX7RriKt0
— Neus Pachón Bermúdez (@neus9) September 29, 2024