The SAR should postpone a week the election of new director because none of the three names voted on this evening, Juan Luis Cebrián , Santiago Muñoz Machado and J osé Antonio Pascual , has obtained the absolute majority prescriptive set by its statutes in the first call.
The secretary of the Academy, Aurora Egido, has been reported this evening in the headquarters of the RAE that none of the three names most voted, among which is not finally the of Inés Fernández-Ordóñez, has obtained the absolute majority required to be appointed and that, therefore, it must be repeated next Thursday.
The Royal Academy has voted from 19:30 to 20:30 the name of the successor of Darius Villanueva, an election without candidates because all academics are eligible, and although the academics that most “sounded” were Cebrián, Muñoz Machado and Fernández-Ordóñez, finally the of this has not left and has been incorporated for Easter.
as set forth in its statutes, the decision has to be taken by an absolute majority in the first round, so the decision was postponed to the plenary the following Thursday, December 20.
That day he would propose the names, and if none obtain an absolute majority they would proceed to an election by simple majority between the two most voted.
Of the 46 academics that there is currently, only have the right to vote 41 because to exercise it is to be a minimum of twelve attendees at the plenary sessions and in addition two are elected, that is to say have not taken possession of his chair.
In tonight’s session has voted also the choice of librarian, a position that has been re-elected Pedro Álvarez de Miranda, and the vocal second of the governing Board, since it will vote next Thursday because they have not obtained an absolute majority, none of the candidates: Paz Battaner, Margarita Salas and Miguel Sáenz.
The current director, Darío Villanueva, announced at the plenary session of October 4, his decision not to continue and not stand for a second term to devote himself to “do other things”, as he explained in an interview with EFE.
The candidates
José Antonio Pascual
The linguist José Antonio Pascual (Salamanca, 1942) occupies the chair “K” in the Academy, of which he was deputy director between 2007 and 2015. Considered one of the wise men of the RAE is the Academic director of the New Historical Dictionary of Spanish (NDHE), founder and first director of the Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics and professor of the universities of Salamanca, Sevilla and Carlos III of Madrid.
Was at the head of the Cervantes Institute in Paris (1997-2001), currently heads the Institute of History of the Language (CILENGUA) of La Rioja and is the author of more than a hundred books and articles, mostly dedicated to the lexicography, and the history of the Spanish language.
Santiago Muñoz Casado
The jurist Santiago Muñoz Married (Pozoblanco, Córdoba, 1949), one of the major experts in international law, administrative and community, was elected academician in 2012 to occupy the “r” and has been the secretary of the RAE between 2015 and 2017.
Professor of Administrative Law, Muñoz Machado is also academician of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and author of “Riofrío”, “Report on Spain. Rethinking the State or to destroy it”, for which he was awarded with the National Prize of Essay, or “we Speak the same language”, National Prize of History in 2018.
Muñoz Machado has promoted the Spanish Dictionary of legal, who spoke on behalf of the SAR in collaboration with the General Council of Judicial Power (CGPJ), and the Dictionary panhispánico of the Spanish legal.
Juan Luis Cebrián
The journalist and writer Juan Luis Cebrián (Madrid, 1944), honorary president of The Country since may of 2018, occupies the unit “V” from 1997. Cebrián, with a degree in Information Science, was the first director of the newspaper el País, position he held until 1998, year in which happened to be the editor of the newspaper. After he was president and ceo of the PRISA group.
it Was one of the founders in 1963 of the journal Notebooks for the dialog; editor-in-chief in the newspaper People; editor-in-chief and deputy director of Information, director of the magazine Gentleman; director of the news of TVE.
Is the author of “The Spain that yawns”, “The size of the elephant”, “Russian”, “The island of the wind”, “Letters to a young journalist”, “The network: how it will change our lives the new media of communication”, “Francomoribundia” or “The pianist in the brothel”.
