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BC President on the International Observers’ Criticism Regarding Its Actions during the Election Campaign: This Is Their Personal Opinion

13 July 2021
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Ala Ursu-Antoci, the head of the Broadcasting Council (BC), refrains from commenting on the criticism of the authority by the international and national observers, who stated after the parliamentary elections that the institution “was inefficient” and “failed to exercise supervision and control with the utmost diligence.” The President of the Council said that she would study the observers’ reports and present a reaction later.
 
On the first day after the early parliamentary elections held on July 11, at least two international election observation missions – ENEMO and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights – stated that the BC “was inefficient,” “did not apply timely sanctions to media service providers who have breached the legal provisions,” and “failed to adequately implement the provisions on impartial media coverage.” 

The day after the elections, the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections also criticized the actions of the Board during the election campaign regarding the way it treated the activity of the media service providers it monitored. “The regulatory broadcasting authority failed to exercise supervision and control with the utmost diligence and good faith and take timely decisions to ensure that the candidates are correctly and impartially covered by all broadcasting media service providers,” the Coalition’s report states.

“This is their personal opinion, and I respect it,” Ala Ursu-Antoci, the head of the BC, replied to the request from Media Azi to comment on the statements from the observers’ monitoring reports.

She added that the institution would issue a response later, upon examining the second report on monitoring the media service providers. “I have not seen their reports yet. I need to analyze them, and afterwards, I will certainly issue a response. We always issue responses. After the second monitoring report, a communiqué will follow,” the official specifies.

Preliminary reports by the international and national observers also mention that the BC managed to examine only one monitoring report on the media service providers’ actions. The second one will be examined by the BC members during the public meeting on July 15.