Moldovan parliament speaker says leadership's goal to create equal conditions for all media outlets

Chisinau, 14 November /MOLDPRES/ - Our goal is create equal conditions for all the media, Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu said at the Mass Media Forum today, the parliament’s communication and public relations department has reported.    

“Do not involve us, the political factor, in discussions on the editorial policy of some media outlets. We live in the 21st century in a market economy. Do not lay the blame on the political factor’s intervention in the media, by demanding the intervention of the political factor,” Andrian Candu said.  

In his capacity of Parliament Speaker, Andrian Candu created a working group for improving the mass media legislation, in order to ensure a good legal basis. The group, set up in last June, brings together journalists, experts of the civil society, representatives of development partners. This platform is to present in parliament a package of legislative norms for the regulation of the media market of Moldova, according to the European norms.  “We do not get involved in the activity of the working group. We organize meetings only to see the status of the drafts worked out; we have no other interventions,” the parliament speaker said.    

Andrian Candu awarded first-degree diplomas of the parliament to:  

Valentina Ursu for Moldova’s radiography in week-end with the Free Europe;

Constantin Grigorita for courage and promotion of the freedom of expression;  

Anatolie Golea for the promotion of inclusion in the society through a programme in the language of minorities;

Sorina Obreja for the promotion of social responsibility through campaigns carried out;  

Cristi Dorombach for innovative journalism.