The latest misunderstandings between the current government and President Igor Dodon as a result of which the latter was three times suspended from office seem to be convenient to both of the sides, considers political analyst and university professor Mihai Cernencu. In an interview for Radio Free Europe, he said he suspects the two sides of hypocrisy and considers the President poses as an ardent critic of the government, while the Democrats attract the voters who do not approve of the Head of State, IPN reports.
“The Democratic Party this way improves its rating and says: Do you see how bad the President is, but we are good and he hampers us. I fear they reached a kind of agreement. We will see. The first and second suspensions were followed by no penalty. We will see what happens in the case of the third suspension and if it was a tacit agreement between the two, ruling and opposition parties or not,” stated Mihai Cernencu.
According to the analyst, the decision to amend the Broadcasting Code was necessary, but was taken very late. Earlier, media experts treated the amendment with skepticism, saying that if the authorities had really wanted to purify the media landscape, they would have freed the Broadcasting Coordination Council, which is the national broadcasting regulator, from political control.
The law amends the Broadcasting Code and bans the transmission of news, feature, military and political radio and TV programs produced in other states than the EU, the U.S., Canada and the states that ratified the European Convention on Transfrontier Television. The decree to promulgate the law will be signed by the Speaker of Parliament or the Prime Minister. The Constitutional Court pronounced a judgment that justifies the suspension of President Dodon from office because this refused to fulfill his constitutional obligations to promulgate the law that was adopted by the legislature for two times.
