The interview stage of the competition for the appointment of the general director of the public company Teleradio-Moldova, scheduled for July 18, has been postponed at the request of the Information and Security Service. The decision of the Supervisory Council of the institution comes after the director of the SIS, Alexandru Musteata, requested additional time to verify the candidates, reports IPN.

The decision to postpone was approved with five votes in favor and two against.

At the interview stage, four candidates were admitted: Dorin Scobioala, Ecaterina Cheptanaru, Sergiu Sandulescu and Andrei Zapsa. Adrian Graur’s candidacy did not meet the necessary conditions to proceed to the next stage. The file of a sixth candidate, Dumitru Vieru, about whom the Supervisory Council only announced on Thursday, was also rejected on Thursday, on the grounds that it did not meet all the requirements set out in the regulations.

The competition for the appointment of the general director of TRM was launched after the former director, Vlad Turcanu, resigned in the wake of the scandal triggered by the score given by the jury from Moldova to Romania at Eurovision.