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TV CHANNELS CLOSE TO DP WILL NOT BE COVERING MAYORAL CAMPAIGN

18 april, 2018

Moldovan television channels close to the ruling Democratic Party have announced they will take no part in the covering of the early mayoral election campaign, it was announced at the Tuesday’s meeting of the Audiovisual Coordinating Council (ACC).

According to the declarations submitted to the media watchdog, channels Prime and Publica TV, belonging to media magnate, DP Chairman Vlad Plahotniuc, as well as Canal 2 and Canal 3, owned by Plahotniuc’s adviser Oleg Cristal, shall not cover the campaigning by candidates for Chisinau and Balti Mayors.

The same was stated by channels CTC Mega, Familia Domashnii, Noroc, Vocea Basarabiei and several provincial television channels.

All in all, 28 TV companies and 30 radio stations have stated they will not be covering the election campaign. So, the ACC will not monitor them.

To date, the ACC has registered 50 applications from television channels and 48 from radio stations that have expressed wish to cover the campaign.

The Democratic Party has refused to nominate its candidates for the forthcoming election. At the same time, the pro-DP mass media are actively promoting the candidacy of incumbent Chisinau Acting Mayor Silvia Radu. She is raising citizens’ signatures [minimum 10,000 valid ones] to get registered as an independent candidate, but has not yet submitted documents to the Chisinau constituency election council. The deadline for submission expires on April 19.

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