Resignations, dismissals, pressures and public confrontations, nothing is going well within the Prisa group (also a minority shareholder of the Holder owner of the Le Monde group). Before the general meeting scheduled for June, two camps are increasingly competing for the control of the main group of Spanish media, publisher of the first general information daily, El Paisof the most listened to generalist, Cadena Ser, and the Santillana publishing house.
On the one hand, a group of shareholders, close to the left government of Pedro Sanchez, holder of almost 19 % of the shares. On the other, the group's president, the French financier Joseph Oughourlian, the first shareholder through his investment fund, Amber Capital, with 29.9 %. Between the two, the French media giant Vivendi, which holds more than 11 % of the capital, could tip the balance.
On February 12, on the sidelines of the summit for the action on the artificial intelligence of Paris, the Minister of Spanish digital transformation, Oscar Lopez, and the new boss of Telefonica, Marc Murtra, both close to Mr. Sanchez, met the president of the Board of Vivendi, Arnaud de Puyfontaine. According to the minister, this meeting, “Very brief”was part of the usual relations with the media linked to his functions. “I never gathered with [ces] people to cause a change in the shareholding of the Prisa group. (…) The government does not enter into the internal policy of a private group ”he assured on the chain the sexta, after The point revealed this meeting in an article on March 15.
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Source: Lemonde