The outdated equipment could halt the broadcasting of the public television at any time, Ion Verbeniuc, the technical director of “Moldova 1” maintains. He stated at the last sitting of the Observers Council (Supervisors that over 62% of the equipment of the television are worn out, Info-Prim Neo reports. The lights have been used for 20 years, the cameras have exceeded the usage term by at least two years, and the TV cars for live broadcasting are not enough equipped, Verbeniuc said, mentioning that it is not economical yet to repair the equipment. “Not only the television but also the radio is in a critical situation,” the president of “Teleradio-Moldova,” Valentin Todercan, said, mentioning that “because of this reason the broadcasting of the public company can stop any time.” “All our cameras are glued with scotch, bound with wires,” Todercan stated. According to him, 60 million euros are needed for re-equipping the company, and a solution could be asking for money from the European Union through a re-equipping project, “since it asks us to reform.” “Maybe we work not so much with the international bodies and we should be more insistent when knocking at their doors,” he added. “We have no chairs, no tables, no anything to make a scenery with. Don’t believe that public or political debates are not organized at Moldova 1 because we don’t want, but because we have nothing to work with,” Valentin Todercan specified. He also said that equipment valuing 700 thousand euros has been kept in the storehouse since February, but because only a part of the money was paid up, the equipment cannot be used. Another solution would be applying to the new parliamentarians, who should consider the re-equipping plan of the public company. “Those from the government know the situation. President Voronin also has visited the company, but we don’t know what to do next, and we were also recently told that, because of the crisis, our 80-million-lei budget will be cut 20%,” he said, accusing that “all those who cry for reforms today are against financing. Urecheanu {(Serafim Urecheanu, the AMN president,e.n..)} proposed to give peasants 51 million we had last year. It is very hard to work with politicians. Seminars should be organized in order to explain them that we need finances,” he said. At the same time, OC president Mariana Slapac said that “many people come with the proposal to reform the public television and they address criticisms,” that is why we could address them. The OC learnt the information presented by the Company’s administration, but made no decision on the possible actions of improving the situation, only mentioning that a notification to the Parliament must be made again.