Vocea Basarabiei Radio, Liberal Party sympathize with PRO TV

The Vocea Basarabiei radio journalists are deeply concerned with the attacks launched on October 23 in the Parliament against PRO TV Chisinau. Also the Liberal Party (PL) condemns the political pressure and attacks to which this TV station has been subjected for the last period, Info-Prim Neo reports. The radio station issues a statement reading that the attacks on PRO TV “are part of a series of intimidating actions launched in the pre-election period by the Gommunist Government against independent media and journalists trying to do their job in accordance with the professional and ethical standards.” The journalists consider that the representatives of the Christian-Democratic People's Party (PPCD) and of the Ecologist Party, defying the common sense and their status of parliamentarians in a state of law, bring grave accusations to the TV station. “The findings that PRO TV would make guilty the institutions of the state of law, or that its work would be part of multiple scenarios undermining Moldova's national interests are taken out from the intimidating arsenal of the Bolshevik KGB-ists and prove that a certain part of the political class still remains a tributary of primitive Bolshevik mentalities,” reads Vocea Basarabiei's declaration. “We are stupefied that the most scandalous statements were made in the Parliament's session by a former journalist, who should be aware of the media's role in a democratic society and that any attacks against them mean betraying the guild and undermining the state's democratic foundations,” Vocea Basarabiei journalists write. The PL considers that “the interpellation of the PPCD parliamentarian, Stefan Secareanu, on the Parliament's floor lacks any ground and actually pursues to offer a pretext to law-enforcing bodies, and to the Broadcasting Coordinating Council (BCC), to unleash reprisals and sanctions, and later to close this TV station, known as a source of correct, professional, equidistant and politically non-affiliated information.” PL opines that “the PPCD's move is part of the scenario of the police state installed by the Communists regime and its accomplices to reprimand the independent media and to install a totalitarian control over the entire press in the wake of the 2009 elections.” The Liberals call on the diplomatic missions accredited to Chisinau, on the European Union and the Council of Europe to support and defend the freedom of expression and the independent mass-media from Moldova. The PPCD parliamentarian, Stefan Secareanu, Thursday criticized the work of PRO TV Chisinau, in the Parliament, and asked the law-enforcement bodies to investigate who are the owners of the station. MP Vladimir Braga, the leader of the Moldovan Greens, asked the BCC to analyze if the station breeched the electoral law in a program. PRO TV Chisinau has qualified as “a particularly grave accusation, but completely groundless” the statements of Stefan Secareanu that the station would allegedly undermine Moldova's national interests. PRO TV consider the PPCD MP's statements as “lacking any sense”.