Parliamentary commissions to start selecting new BCC member

Within a month, the commission for culture, science, education, youth, sports and mass media and the legal commission for appointments and immunities will start selecting a candidate for the vacant position of member of the Broadcasting Coordinating Council (BCC) and will present him/her to the Parliament for confirmation. The Parliament made such a decision on February 7. At the same time, the MPs took cognizance of Constantin Rotaru’s resignation from the post of BCC member. MP Vlad Filat said that Constantin Rotaru made the motives for his resignation public so they should discuss the given situation in the Parliament because what he said is too serious to be left aside. But his statement was passed over. Constantin Rotaru tendered his resignation on January 11. He told Info-Prim Neo that the BCC began to be politicised, fact that is banned by the legislation. He said that he thought of resignation first when the BCC decided to halt the retransmission of TVR1 in Moldova because he considers this decision as incorrect and that discredits the Council. The former BCC member also said that he does not agree with the method of distributing frequencies, especially on the radio.