Ciudadanos and Unidas Podemos advocated a novel formula: a public contest. The idea had already been put into practice in the United Kingdom in 2004.

Spain imported this model to select the president of RTVE and, incidentally, also the board of directors. 94 candidates attended, a high percentage of which were house workers who appeared in Congress and the Senate. The rest were chosen based on political affinities, ignoring professional criteria and management capacity. The result has been an institutional blockade and difficult to govern.