AMA vacancies issue
08/05/2014 00:00
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The Parliament started the procedure for filling the four vacancies at
the Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA). One of these vacancies is its
director.
This caused harsh debates, since the opposition considers this move as illegal and an effort to take the media under government control. The majority underlined that this is not about the candidates’ names, but about finding a legal solution to this stalemate.
Genc Pollo: Based on a law that has been voted in this room, the mandate of the AMA Director and of its members is very clear for the periods of 2015 and 2016.
Alfred Peza: We are not fighting for the names of the candidates. We are fighting for the law, and the post of the AMA Director has been vacant since September 2012.
Pollo: Since you mention often the advises you as recommendations from the European Union and the OSCE. The OSCE has declared in a letter sent to the majority and opposition that these changes should be made very carefully and in full consensus with the opposition. Terminating mandates of regulatory bodies as soon as the new majority takes power, is a clear indicator of the degradation of this institution’s independence, and a degradation of the media freedom, as result.
Peza: The opposition has turned into their cause the post of a single person, to whom they were the ones causing this problem. You had eight years to give her the AMA member, and today she would have been a member.
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