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Media Azi wrote about the fact that the authors of this legislative initiative propose, inter alia, to have the Broadcasting Council members dismissed if the Parliament rejects its annual activity report. The document also stipulates that the mandates of the current members of the TRM’s Supervisory Board, the company’s general director and deputy directors will end when the draft law enters into force.
BECS: PAS WANTS TO “POLITICALLY SUBORDINATE” TRM
Adela Răileanu, deputy chair of the specialized commission and MP from the parliamentary faction of the Bloc of Communists and Socialists (BECS), proposed to have the draft law excluded from the agenda and discuss it in public debate with the civil society and representatives of the media. She believes that the PAS party wants to “politically subordinate” TRM and BC by means of this draft law. Her proposal, however, was not supported by the majority of the members of the commission.
The MP left the room and held a briefing together with her colleagues from the faction, where she presented her arguments. She reminded that the change of TRM’s status from state-owned to public institution “was acquired by fight, through sit-ins, through cases at the ECHR,” with the help of TRM employees and with the support of international organizations. “Over time, Teleradio-Moldova was blamed, praised, politicians coveted it. However, thanks to the legislation in force, no one dared brutally attack this institution. Today, over 20 years later, the regime that declares itself pro-European aims to barbarically subordinate this institution, as well as the Broadcasting Council, for political reasons,” Adela Răileanu said.
She believes that the amendments proposed by PAS “contradict all international expert opinions and recommendations that were the basis for the adoption of the current code, directly contradict the Constitution, affect free expression and are to impose censorship.”
AUTHORS’ EXPLANATIONS
MPs from the parliamentary majority continued examining issues from the agenda in the absence of opposition representatives. Another deputy chair of the specialized commission, PAS party’s MP Virgil Pîslariuc, claims that this draft law is intended to hold broadcasting officials accountable. “The autonomy of institutions, particularly of the Broadcasting Council, is not threatened at all. It remains autonomous in the sense that it is governed by its own regulations, and it has some very important tasks. On the contrary, we are creating conditions to make the work of this body more efficient,” Virgil Pîslariuc explained.
The chair of the specialized commission, Liliana Nicolaescu-Onofrei, spoke in this context about the monitoring reports produced by media experts, who found manipulation techniques allegedly used by Moldova 1 in its products. “The presentation of such reports was not followed by any consequences, no accountability. Such things should not happen,” she said.
