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The draft provides, inter alia, for the following: ‘Media outlets shall treat without discrimination the factions, MPs groups or independent MPs from the parliamentary majority and those from the parliamentary opposition, giving them equal conditions to freely express their views.’
Also, another paragraph provides that media representatives shall disseminate the public statements of MPs ‘by complying with principles of social and political balance’.
PDM MP Sergiu Sirbu, one of the authors, who introduced the document in the Parliament, explained to Media-azi.md that the rules related to media are recommendations only, the latter being also found in the current Broadcasting Code.
When asked what did authors mean by ‘treatment without discrimination’ of the MPs in the media, Sirbu stated that a fair presentation of the views of the MPs from different factions was sought. ‘It means that the editorial policy of a media outlet will not be influenced by anyone’, Sirbu said.
Representatives of the parliamentary opposition criticized the draft during the debates. Liberal Democrat Tudor Deliu reproached the authors that they had developed the document in a hurry and would have promoted it at high speed, by passing it formally through all procedures.
PSRM MP Vladimir Turcan believes that such a document is not relevant at the end of the mandate of the current MPs, because it will have to be reviewed by the future Parliament.
The draft was registered with the Parliament on 2 November as a legislative initiative of three Democratic MPs: Andrian Candu, Sergiu Sirbu and Raisa Apolschi.
