Several municipal councilors reprove the idea of affiliating the local audiovisual to “TeleRadio-Moldova” Company

Several independent municipal councilors and members of the “Moldova Noastra” Alliance faction dislike the idea of affiliating the local audiovisual to “TeleRadio-Moldova” (TRM) Company, whilst the communist and the Christian-democrat councilors avoid the subject. The independent councilor, Mihai Roscovan considers that by transforming the municipal radio and TV stations “Antena C” and “Euro TV” into subsidiaries of TRM, the ones that will suffer the most will be the inhabitants of the Chisinau municipality who will be deprived of a truthful information source. The final goal of this intention is to liquidate “Antena C” and “Euro TV”, because they are alternative sources of information, Mihai Roscovan declared. The leader of MNA Faction in CMC, Pavel Caba appreciated the affiliation of the municipal radio and TV stations to TRM as an “aberration”. According to Caba, the MPs should have at first consulted the opinion of CMC regarding this initiative, because such decisions are not made over night. The leader of MNA also declared that the authors of this idea “again do what they want in order to control everything in Chisinau”. The leader of People’s Christian-Democrat Party faction in CMC, Alexabdru Corduneanu avoided talking about the proposals regarding the affiliation of the local audiovisual to TRM. Corduneanu appreciated the Audiovisual Code, which according to him, is welcomed and will halt the practices of promoting some group interests by some TV and radio stations. “I hope that the law will be equitable and will allow to all journalists to respect their deontological statute”, the Christian-democrat MP declared for Antena C. The head of communists’ faction, Svetlana Popa refused to comment upon this issue, declaring for “Antena C” at first the Parliament should decide upon this issue and afterwards to organize debates on it. The draft Audiovisual Code is examined in the Parliament in second reading. Previously, the president of the Parliamentary Commission for Culture, Science, Education, Youth, Sports and Media, Victor Stepaniuc declared that the local public broadcasting institutions could activate as subsidiaries or bureaus of “Teleradio-Moldova” Company.