Greek opposition boycotts the new public television - Free Press

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Athens

This was announced in respective statements, SYRIZA parties (opposition leader, left), Lys (moderate left and until recently a partner in the coalition government), KKE (Communist) and Independent Greeks (right nationalist) after meeting separately in recent days with representatives of the employees of ERT.

provisional entity began operating public last week with several reports daily news and archive, with a team of 577 workers and transition mode while managing complete restructuring of broadcasting.

After completing this process, the government’s plans aim at implementing the new public television (Nerit), which will have about 2,000 employees rather than the 2,650 who worked in ERT.

SYRIZA leader, Alexis Tsipras promised ERT workers, who still hold the seat occupied and continue to broadcast over the internet, assume that if the government restored the traditional broadcast and said that no representative of his party will go to DT programs.

For his part, President of Independent Greeks, Panos Kamenos, empathized with ERT workers, journalists asked ERT3 (which was the regional chain of Thessaloniki) to relay the press conference soon offer in this city for the annual industry trade show, and said it will not let in any journalist DT.

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Kuvelis, Dimar leader, once again reiterated its firm opposition to the closure of the ERT and said that his party will not participate in any way in the construction of between provisional.

tripartite coalition, consisting of the conservative New Democracy and PASOK’s Social Dimar just broke Kuvelis’s refusal to seal the closure of ERT.

Finally, KKE leader Dimitris Kutsubas said that his party will not accept any invitation to participate in DT programs.

The only party that has not pronounced has been the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, whom ERT workers were not even invited to sympathize with them.

Although last week the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) failed to reproduce the analog signal and ERT satellite, more than a hundred workers occupied the headquarters keep body and, in a year of unprecedented self still produce complete programming daily, which transmit over the Internet.

justification-European body that since the closure of ERT had helped to cast off workers without official permission programming-is that the transient entity created by the Greek government has already started to broadcast news. EFE