Madrid, December 11 (EFE) .- The Royal Spanish Academy chooses this afternoon the director of this institution, a position for which emerges clearly Dario Villanueva, the secretary of the SAR, which will become the successor José Manuel Blecua if it gets enough votes for it.
Blecua, director of the Academy since 2010, could communicate today to the full, before the vote, his desire not to continue to lead the SAR other four years, or at least that’s the impression I have several of academics consulted by Efe.
If you were willing to follow, could “be defeated,” the sources said.
SAR is a range of scholars who are dissatisfied with the management of Blecua, who have taken over the Academy in very difficult years, successive cuts in the allocation it receives from the State (sixty percent in five years), Downhill sponsorship and lower sales of academic works.
On Tuesday, writer and academic Arturo Pérez-Reverte advocated publicly for a change in the direction of the Academy and criticized the state for having ” abandoned “SAR and” breach of the obligation “which has to support the work of this institution.
That same day, Dario Villanueva said he feels” hard to do what the Academy ” ask him, though he recalled that the RAE not candidates for the posts are presented and academics who choose whom they consider most appropriate.
According to the scholars consulted by Efe, at the Academy “no awareness of a change in direction is needed “and that Dario Villanueva eligible to get the institution of the difficult economic situation.
Of the 46 places available to the RAE five are vacant in Currently, there are six academics and may not vote tomorrow because this requires a minimum number of assists.
In full evening will be a single vote in which the votes are also taken into account by mail. For Dario Villanueva is elected director needs 18 votes at a minimum, ie absolute majority.
If not won, it would have to wait until December 18, when only would it be a simple majority.
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