The second report on the monitoring of mass media in the electoral campaign for the local elections in Moldova has found that the behavior of the majority of monitored mass media worsened: they showed tendentiousness, failed to cover the electoral campaign in all complexity and did not ensure the necessary degree of pluralism of opinions. Many of them either focused on intensive promotion of some electoral contestants or on disfavoring/discrediting political opponents of their favorite candidates.

Some of the monitored mass media, especially broadcasters, changed their editorial policies on the coverage of the electoral campaign, having given up the practices of aggressive promotion of certain contestants – it is one of the conclusions of the third report on monitoring mass media in the electoral campaign for the general local elections in Moldova.

The majority of monitored mass media showed tendentiousness in the coverage of the electoral campaign for the local elections of 14 June 2015 and failed to ensure the necessary degree of pluralism of opinions. Many of them focused either on intensive promotion of some electoral contestants or on disfavoring/discrediting the political opponents of their favorite candidates – these are the general conclusions of the final report on monitoring, produced by the Independent Journalism Center within the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections.