Monday, September 15, 2014

Third resigns over Greek public television interference from … – Radio Intereconomía

Athens, 15 sep.- A member of the Supervisory Board of the Greek Public Television (Nerit) resigned today and denounced the “direct intervention” by the government in the information chain line, facing third resignation of a high over the past four days.

Christos Jomenidis, part -In charge Oversight Council to monitor the entity meets the law-stepped down after arguing that the Conservative Executive Andonis Samaras maneuvered try to influence the network programming for political purposes.

Jomenidis concerned the controversy on Friday the resignation of President and CEO of Nerit, Andonis Makrydimitris, and deputy chief executive claimed, Rodolfoos Moronis. chain decision not to broadcast a speech by opposition leader

The SYRIZA leftist party alleged that the executive managers pressured Nerit to the speech in which their leader, Alexis Tsipras, presented the outlines of his term, not seen in our state broadcaster.

The government spokesman Vúltepsi Sofia, left quickly countered these accusations and denied that the Government had no involvement in the matter.

But Jomenidis said in his resignation letter, which was government pressure that violated “the right to decide on the topics” executive director Nerit “as befits an independent public broadcasting of parties and politicians. “

Nerit was created after the Government ENACTED unilateral closure of the Greek public broadcaster (ERT), in June 2013, under the pretext of creating a new broadcasting independent public matches, with fewer workers under the banner of transparency and quality programming.

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