Some TV stations, especially Eu TV and N4, aired electoral messages on the eve of the elections in programs envisaging electoral actors. Thus, those two stations breeched art. 47 of the Election Code banning electioneering on the eve and on the day of the elections. The statement was made by Vasile State, the coordinator of a project on monitoring the conduct of Chisinau televisions during the electoral race. The project is run by the APEL Association of Electronic Press, which gave a news conference on Tuesday, April 14, at Info-Prim Neo news agency. According to the observers, five televisions (Eu TV, N4, NIT, Pro TV and TV7) on April 4, 2009, rerun the eve newscasts presenting electoral actors, and two of them (Eu TV and N4) aired messages favoring or disfavoring electoral actors in their programs. During the election race, the watched televisions practiced two types of journalism: one close to the democratic one and the other – biased. The first type of journalism was practiced by Pro TV, TV 7 and TVC 21, the second – by Eu TV, Moldova 1, NIT and N4, reads an APEL communique. The conclusions are stated in the final monitoring report on the political actors' presence in TV programs compiled by APEL during February 4 through April 5, 2009. “The monitors found the unbalanced coverage of some electoral actors on three stations: Moldova 1, NIT and N4, which massively promoted the ruling party, to the detriment of covering the other actors,” Vasile State said. A week ago, Teleradio-Moldova president presented a report on the conduct of the public company during the race, in which he finds that “generally no serious objections concerning the work of our institution in covering the election race have been evinced either by the Central Election Commission, or by the Broadcasting Coordinating Council (BCC).” The bodies in charge of observing the electoral and broadcasting legislation (the CEC and BCC), by their lack of prompt response to the violations signaled out, thus encouraged the perpetuation of not abiding by law on the part of the TV stations, during the entire electoral race, the APEL observers find. In the report of the International Election Observing Mission, under the OSCE's aegis, made public on April 6, they say about the BCC that “failed to act in a timely manner to address the problems related to the media coverage of the campaign.” The monitored channels failed to contribute to create a public space proper to adequately discuss the electoral offers, so that the citizen finally makes a qualified and conscious choice. The project “Monitoring the political/electoral actors on the main TV channels during the pre-election, election and post-election periods of the 2009 parliamentary elections” is financed by the Delegation of the European Commission in Moldova within the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights, is co-funded by the Soros Foundation-Moldova, and takes place within the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections – Coalition 2009.