Oughourlian forces the departure of Carlos Núñez as president of Hurd

The soap opera in the nucleus of the Prisa group has charged its first piece with the exit of Carlos Núñez,President of Hurry Media. The decision occurs after the confrontation between Núñez and the president of the group, Joseph Oughourlian,which was evident yesterday in an advice in which the television project that Núñez had presented was decided to lie.

“These years have been very intense and rewarding because, thanks to everyone’s effort, we have opened new paths for the group and we have put the bases of a future than hopeful. Closed this stage, I consider that it is time to face new professional challenges “Núñez said in a statement.

The exit has been formalized with a resignation that also seems to anticipate a deep restructuring in group governance, since it is also going to reduce the number of council members from 15 to 11 members that could end with the exit of the rest of the organs of the organ.

“The Council (…) has agreed, within the framework of a restructuring of the Council and a simplification of the hurry management model and its group, propose to the next Ordinary Board of Shareholders the reduction of the number of counselors in a hurry , from 15 to 11, “says the statement published before the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV).

In the Council, the other two executives of the group are present: the financial director, Pilar Gil, and the president of Santillana, Francisco Cuadrado. With Núñez’s departure, three other members would have to leave. The majority of the organ is independent.

With the new arithmetic, the threshold to have a presence would rise to 9%, which would leave Global Alconaba, the Society of Socialist Entrepreneurs headed by Andrés Varela Entrecanal, without the right to occupy the seat he currently has on the Council (unless he drives a Pact with other related shareholders such as businessmen Adolfo Utor and Diego Prieto). A similar problem would have the Polish, whose participation is below 8%.

The process will be conducted by the appointment commission that is formed entirely by independent counselors, headed by Fernando Carrillo FlórezFirst Vice President of the Board of Directors and former Minister of Interior of Colombia.

TV rupture

Oughourlian had already warned in an interview with Expansion that the failure of the project would lead to consequences for the people involved. “If the project is not going, the people who were pushing a lot for that project within the company, we relocate them and that they meet another project, or I think they have no place within the company,” says the president and Máximo Hurry shareholder.

The exit, advanced by The Spanishis known after a meeting early in the morning held by Carlos Núñez and the president of the group, Joseph Oughourlian, who would have forced the departure, according to El Mundo confirmed.

Núñez had assured that the company’s Spanish shareholders would finance television, but for the Armenian investor the 20 million euros arranged by the shareholders “would not even give for five minutes”, in addition to questioning the suitability of entering the television segment In open in 2025, given the fall in consumption of this segment.