Media NGOs condemns PAS's discrimination against Prime TV
Many mass-media organizations are condemning "The Action and Solidarity Party"'s decision at banning Prime from being present at their second congress meeting.
People from the field consider this act as a breach in the Freedom of Speech.
"All I can see in this act is discrimination and a breach of law. When building a democratic state, a free and independent press is crucial. Yet they have attempted to silence and ban us" chief of Acces-Info, Vasile Spunei said.
Petru Macovei, chief of the Independent Press Association, also shares this opinion. He believes that by banning Prime TV Maia Sandu's party has breached the democracy legislation.
"It is an unfortunate event. The mass-media must have free access to information, regardless of political view. Regrettably in our country both the political parties and the government are breaching the democratic legislation, by discriminating the mass-media" chief of the Independent Press Association, Petru Macovei declared.
Moreover, the members of this organization believe that those actions have also broke the supreme law.
"In the Republic of Moldova the freedom of the press is a fundamental law in the constitution, as well as other acts. Therefore we can say that this Party has infringed the law" attorney of the Independent Press Association, Zinaida Gheaţă stated.
The Action and Solidarity Party has banned the access to their second congress meting from various mass-media that might give them a bad image.
More than that, the party's leader Maia Sandu, has made contradictory declarations regarding the reasoning. First she claimed that Prime has sent too late a request to assist at the meeting, then she decided that Prime was not a press.
While the general secretary of the Independent Press Association, Igor Grosu has condemned their actions of forbidding access to those who they previously invited.
At the same time, some members from the Action and Solidarity Party were surprised that Prime TV was not given access to their meeting. They believe this action as being unlawful and not in the European Spirit.