Gheorghe Gorincioi is BCC’s new chairman

Gheorghe Gorincioi has been elected today as chairman of the Broadcasting Coordination Council, with 6 votes out of 9. With the same number of votes, the Council annulled the decision of July 31 concerning the election of Vlad Turcanu to the post of chairman. At the same meeting, Valeriu Frumusachi was named deputy chairman of the broadcasting authority. The proposal to elect a new leadership of BCC came from the former chairman, Corneliu Mihalache, who stated that he has never sought the seat of chairman. According to Mihalache, over the past two months, the authority of this institution has been undermined from inside, as well as outside through “political interferences”. That is why, Mihalache believes, the re-election of president and vice president will eliminate this “quasi political character” of the council’s activity. “Both I and Mr Turcanu, as well as the ex-chairwoman Ms Vasilache, were involved in this quasi political scandal and I consider it would be right to elect other people that will start re-establishing the stability in the Council and restore its external image”, Mihalache added. Vlad Turcanu was elected in replacement of Cornelui Mihalache as chairman of BCC on July 31, with a majority vote. However the respective decision has not been yet published in the Official Gazette for unknown reasons. Vlad Turcanu said he knew long before today’s meeting that the Council was going to elect a new leadership. He informed the public opinion in early August of pressures put on some BCC members who had voted for him. According to Turcanu, the election of the new leadership will cause a decline of the broadcasting field, while the state of transparency, established this summer in the council, will eventually disappear. The immediate results of this vote will be seen at the contest scheduled for late September, when TVR1 could disappear from Moldova’s air and some broadcasters could undeservedly take over a large part of the frequencies put up for sale. “My dismissal doesn’t bother me much, but for the broadcasting field, for the Council in particular, this could be bad”, Turcanu stated. In his words, those who formed and accepted this alliance will have it on their conscience. The newly elected chairman of BCC, Gheorghe Gorincioi told reporters that, jointly with the BCC members, he will continue implementing the Broadcasting Code into life.