Iurie Leanca and Marian Lupu appear most often on TV, report

05.11.2014 15:08
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Prime Minister Iurie Leanca is the government functionary who appeared most often in the TV news (99 times), while the leader of the Democratic Party Marian Lupu appeared 67 times in the televised news and is thus the politician who appears most often on TV. The two are presented mainly in a positive or a neutral light, shows the second monitoring report produced by the Association of Independent Press (API), the Independent Journalism Center (IJC) and the Association of Electronic Press (APEL) within the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections. The report was presented in a news conference at IPN.

Among politicians, Marian Lupu is followed by the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vlad Filat (65 appearances), deputy chairman of the Democratic Party Igor Corman (46), first deputy chairman of the Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc (39), the leader of the Communist Party Vladimir Voronin (38), the leader of the Liberal Party Mihai Ghimpu (31), and independent candidate Oleg Cernei (31).

Among those who appear most often in a positive context, after Marian Lupu, are Igor Corman, Vlad Filat, Valentina Buliga and Vasile Botnari. Vladimir Plahotniuc is presented most often in a negative light, followed by Vlad Filat and Vladimir Voronin.

Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca is the second public servant with the highest number of appearances in TV news (49). He is followed by Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Vasile Bumacov (42), Minister of Economy Andrian Candu (39), and President Nicolae Timofti (16). Iurie Leanca, Andrian Candu, and Dorin Chirtoaca are presented mainly in a positive light, but the mayor of Chisinau appears frequently in a negative context as well, followed by Iurie Leanca, Vasile Bumacov, and Andrian Candu.

APEL expert Aneta Gonta said the top positions occupied by the representatives of the Democratic Party by the number of appearances on TV in a positive context is due to the fact that they are favored by four TV channels: Prime TV, Publika TV, Canal 2, and Canal 3.

The monitoring was performed within a project financed by the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy, the U.S. Embassy in Moldova and East-Europe Foundation with the funds allocated by the Government of Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (DANIDA).