The members of the „Teleradio-Moldova” company Observers Council (TRM OC) Veaceslav Ioniţă and Igor Munteanu announced their resignation on Friday, February 22, protesting against the restriction of their right to information, of the presentation of their opinions to the public, as well as against the impossibility to participate in the decision-making process, Info-Prim Neo reports. The decisions of the two were announced at the OC sitting, after the company’s administration and the OC president had presented their activity reports for 2007. The TRM president, Valentin Todercan, mentioned, in his report, TRM’s main achievements of the last year. He maintained that the 2007 accomplishments were due, to a great extent, to the coordinated activity of the company’s leadership, to the efficient cooperation between the OC and the state administration. According to him, changing the company’s administration allowed for both maintaining the continuity in solving certain issues, and implementing new objectives related to boosting the company’s image as a national public broadcaster, to re-equipping, to improving the employees’ working conditions and to implementing a new remuneration mechanism. In the opinion of the OC president, the company still has problems related to the psychological climate within the staff, professionalism, to mirroring events from more sources, the right to reply, the principle of remunerating the employees. At the same time, Mariana Şlapac was hopeful the OC’s work, with the members it had, would allow the members to act in the spirit of the law in order to strengthen a genuinely public institution. The two members harshly criticised TRM’s activity report, but also the mode of functioning of the OC. Munteanu said the TRM report did not contain the policies and priorities, but neither a clear concept of further development. The employees’ life has not changed for better, and the way TRM is looked at from outside is below any criticism. Munteanu also referred to the poor management displayed by the administration. According to him, the relationship between the new TRM administration and the OC has gone by the principle „don’t teach us how to live, you’d better help us materially.” He also said that, during his work as an OC member he could not obtain a series of acts and information both from the company’s administration, and from the OC secretariat, because of which reason he temporarily suspended his acting as an OC member, as a protest against such a kind of behaviour. Ioniţă said neither he could normally exert his function of an OC member. He had not been given the requested information, his proposals were not accepted, and, recently, they were not even made public. He said he resigned because of those reasons. According to him, the OC is not a functional body any longer and he’ll ask other members to follow his example. „Through this action we want to show that the TRM reform, started in 2006, is a failure, also because of political involvement,” he stated. Asked to comment on the statements made by the two ones, the OC secretary, Anatol Dubrovschi, said each Council member had the right to ask for the acts he needed. Referring to the political involvement, he said each OC member is representing himself, not a political formation. „I have not noticed the OC members to do political partisanship,” he said. At the same time, Dubrovschi opined that often the statements of the two coincide with the ones of some political parties. The present Observers Council with 9 members appointed by the Parliament started to work earlier in 2007.