PCRM slaps opponents' movies, 'dirty technologies'

Young candidates on the PCRM's list for the parliament criticized, on July 14, the movies about the April 7 events, produced by the AMN and the PLDM, and “the dirty electoral technologies of the liberal-radical parties.” Number 17 on the PCRM's list, Grigore Petrenco, has said he is waiting for an answer from PLDM leader Vlad Filat about holding debates in media, after young PLDM members had challenged their Communist counterparts to debate in Stefan cel Mare Public Garden from Chisinau, Info-Prim Neo reports. “Misinformation and unbelievable lies”. This is how Grigore Petrenco has called the movies about the people's revolt of April 7, produced and distributed by Our Moldova Alliance (AMN) and the Liberal Democratic Party. These movies can be watched on the Internet, but no Chisinau television has aired them. Info-Prim Neo's reporter had to repeat twice the question: “Who in Moldova was the first to produce propaganda movies about April 7,” but Grigore Petrenco said he did not get it. He has avoided to produce an answer even after other journalists tried to help him understand the question. On June 7 and later, the TV channels NIT, Moldova 1, N4 and Prime aired the movie “Attack on Moldova”. In that movie, the author tries to accredit the idea that the violent protests of April 7 would allegedly have been mastered by the opposition parties, or by political organizations from Romania. The opposition leaders mirrored in a negative context in that movie are not offered the opportunity to explain themselves. Grigore Petrenco has said the movie was not commissioned by the Communists, but is a production of a journalist. Reports compiled by civil society show that the afore-mentioned televisions often place the PCRM in favorable light and denigrate the opposition parties. When asked to comment the recent statement of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, who doubts that Teleradio-Moldova would practice responsible journalism, Grigore Petrenco has said that the public broadcaster carries out its internal monitoring, and according to the results, the PCRM is mirrored in ratio of 27%, compared to the other parties. “In the ongoing campaign, all the electoral participants have the same number of minutes for debates, the same access to air their electoral ads. The president, prime-minister, other key figures from the government do not appear in newscasts,” Petrenco has said, underlining “there is always place for better.”