“Most of the televisions committed rather severe deviations from the legal provisions, from professional ethics. The question is about four televisions, especially about N4 and NIT, but also Moldova 1 and, on certain segments, Eu TV. Pro TV and TV7 were closer to the legal and ethical norms,” stated Vasile State, a coordinator of the Electronic Press Association (APEL) in a project monitoring Chisinau televisions during the July 29 elections campaign. “This fact has obviously not contributed to insure favorable conditions for free and conscious elections,” reads a press release drafted by the APEL experts and distributed at a news conference at Info-Prim Neo. A series of TV stations presented the electoral competitors in news in an unfair, disproportionate and tendentious manner, thus depriving the voters from the possibility to free shape opinions about the electoral offers, the APEL experts said. “In a conspicuous way, NIT and N4, but also Moldova 1, massively covered in news in a positive context and displayed favoring attitudes towards the representatives of the rule and of the PPCD,” Vasile State said. NIT, N4, Eu TV and Moldova 1 displayed disfavoring attitude in news towards the opposition parties. On the other hand, Pro TV and TV7 adopted a more balanced attitude in this regard and did now allow, in their news, partisan or tendentious attitudes towards electoral contestants, said the APEL monitors. According to the observers, broadcasting programs with electoral content, others than the debates, generated preconditions for the dissimulated spreading of political preferences. “Some broadcasts aired during the race by EuTV, N4 and NIT were clearly oriented to spread 'a prescribed opinion' and to inform the audience impartially,” said university professor Victor Moraru, an expert with the project. The project monitoring the presence of political actors on the main TV stations during and between the 2009 electoral campaigns is financed by the Delegation of the European Commission to Moldova and other donors. With this project, APEL participates in the Coalition for Free and Fair Elections – Coalition 2009. A day before, on August 6, the public company “Teleradio-Moldova” made public an internal monitoring report, which finds that “during the electoral race, Teleradio-Moldova made no political partisanship, nor propaganda for any party.” The public broadcaster's administration supposes errors and interests may be behind the NGOs' monitoring reports.