European Forum Youth seeks one hour of airtime from Moldova 1 to rehabilitate image of young people damaged during April 7-8 events

10.06.2009 13:01
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The European Forum Youth, a subsidiary organization of the European Action Movement (MAE), asks the public television channel Moldova 1 to offer then one hour of airtime to rehabilitate the image of the Moldovan young people that was damaged during the events that happened on April 7 and 8, Info-Prim Neo reports. “We demand that the Communist authorities stop denigrating the young, pro-European and non-Communist Democrats. We ask that the public channel Moldova 1 organize a program involving young people that will express their opinions about the devastation of the buildings of the Parliament and the Presidential Office of Moldova,” the organization’s secretary general Dina Ivanov said at a news conference on Wednesday. She said that they will ask the youth organizations of other political parties to participate in the organization of this program. If Teleradio-Moldova ignores their request, they will employ all the legal methods to obtain the right to reply. “We realize with bewilderment and indignation that the Communist authorities, who are incapable of coping with a crisis situation, engage the media outlets controlled by them in a campaign aimed at distorting the truth and presenting the young people in Moldova as vandals. The denigrating programs broadcast and the articles published in the Communist newspapers, which are promoted without the right to reply as in the Stalinist period, present the youth in a bad light, as bandits and vandals,” Ivanov said, quoting a statement issued by European Forum Youth. The statement says that the PCRM rigged the April 5 parliamentary elections by different methods, including by falsifying the electoral rolls and writing persons working abroad or dead persons in them. “The protests by the young people, including by members of the European Forum Youth, were peaceful and met the legal norms. Unidentified provokers initiated the devastation of the buildings of the Parliament and the Presidential Office,” the statement reads. The European Forum Youth has a membership of over 4,000.