President Maia Sandu welcomes the MPs’ decision to transfer back the national public broadcaster Teleradio-Moldova under the Parliament’s oversight. According to the official, the management is defective and this company does not serve citizens’ interests. The activity of the Audiovisual Council is also inappropriate as this regulator does not penalize the media outlets that misinform and manipulate public opinion, IPN reports.
In a program on the public TV channel, President Maia Sandu expressed her dissatisfaction with the activity of Teleradio-Moldova. She said the media NGOs that criticized the transfer of the company under the Parliament’s supervision are the same entities that earlier expressed their dissatisfaction with Teleradio-Moldova’s work.
“The NGOs and the citizens say the situation is not good and one should not tell us that Teleradio-Moldova now works appropriately. Everyone comes with criticism despite the respect for the people who work here. But we speak about the way the processes are managed. As the mechanism used until now didn’t work, another mechanism is now employed. It’s clear that citizens’ interests haven’t been served and a change is needed,” Maia Sandu stated in the talk show “Moldova live” on M1 TV channel.
President Sandu also criticized the Audiovisual Council’s work. She said that after the Council under the rue of Plahotniuc spared the media outlets that formed part of the Democrats’ holding, it now promotes the interests of another political party.
“The citizens are terrorized daily with fake news. They are lied to, but the Audiovisual Council does not impose penalties on those who lie to the citizens. We will see if this solution is good or not in several months, when the Supervisory Board of Teleradio-Moldova and the Audiovisual Council have new members and we will see the quality of the people and the quality of decisions. We want correct information, not lies and disinformation,” stated the official.
On October 5, Parliament gave a final reading and passed the bill to amend the Code of Audiovisual Media Services so that this enables to transfer back Teleradio-Moldova under the Parliament’s oversight. The law provides the members of the Audiovisual Council will be fired if Parliament dismisses the annual progress report as inappropriate.
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