{"id":6795,"date":"2022-12-08T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T11:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/adunarea-populara-a-gagauziei-a-emis-o-hotarare-prin-care-obliga-jurnalistii-sa-se-acrediteze-dmitrii-constantinov-ne-incurca-sa-lucram-in-plen\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:44:24","slug":"adunarea-populara-a-gagauziei-a-emis-o-hotarare-prin-care-obliga-jurnalistii-sa-se-acrediteze-dmitrii-constantinov-ne-incurca-sa-lucram-in-plen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/adunarea-populara-a-gagauziei-a-emis-o-hotarare-prin-care-obliga-jurnalistii-sa-se-acrediteze-dmitrii-constantinov-ne-incurca-sa-lucram-in-plen\/","title":{"rendered":"The People\u2019s Assembly of Gagauzia Issues a Decision Obliging Journalists to Obtain Accreditation. Dmitrii Constantinov: \u201cThey Interfere with Our Work in Plenary\u201d<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The deputies of the People\u2019s Assembly of Gagauzia issued a decision ordering the media to obtain accreditation in order to get access to the premises of the local forum, stipulating a series of criteria for receiving a permissive document, as well as the provisions regarding its withdrawal. Media NGOs from Chisinau disapprove of this initiative and demand to cancel the decision immediately.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the document<\/a>, media representatives\u2019 accreditation for the People’s Assembly can be permanent or granted on one occasion only; it is issued nominally, without the possibility of being used by several members of the same editorial team. To get it, journalists have to file an application containing, among other things, detailed information about the media institution they work for. Permanent accreditations are issued for seven days, whereas the non-recurring ones are valid for 24 hours. According to the source, \u201caccredited journalists shall have no right to interfere in the activities of the People\u2019s Assembly\u201d and shall \u201center the People\u2019s Assembly meeting hall only with the permission of the chairperson of the meeting or a person authorized by them.\u201d In addition, \u201cmedia representatives who have not presented their accreditation card or are late for the start of a public event shall not be allowed to enter the premises.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision includes a list of rights and obligations of accredited media representatives, cases when the institution can refuse to issue accreditations, as well as the situations in which it could be withdrawn. For instance, \u201cmedia can be deprived of accreditation in case of (…) discrediting the activities of the People\u2019s Assembly or the deputies (…), serious, repeated, or unique breach of the obligations specified in this decision (…), refusing to publish a reply or a correction statement from the People\u2019s Assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new rules also stipulate that the accreditation of a journalist who lost it due to breaching the rules established by this decision can be renewed no earlier than in a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Azi has tried to find out the reason for introducing media accreditation from the president of the People\u2019s Assembly of the autonomous region of Gagauzia. \u201cWhen the plenary session is held, we prohibit the media representatives from entering the hall and approaching the deputies. As to the rest, anyone is allowed to enter. Yet journalists enter the hall during the session and interview us. How do you like this? They interfere with our work. We have objected to it and warned them several times, but to no avail,\u201d Dmitrii Constantinov has told us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDEFIANT ATTEMPTS\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Independent Journalism Center has previously emphasized in an edition of the Press Lawyer column<\/a> that \u201caccreditation\u201d of journalists by the local authorities and the People\u2019s Assembly of Gagauzia is illegal. The law stipulates that the meetings of the local councils and the People\u2019s Assembly of Gagauzia shall be public. Any interested person shall have the right to attend such meetings, as well as to participate in any stage of the decision-making process in accordance with the legal provisions. In all these cases, the Law on Transparency of the Decision-Making Process [4]<\/a> should be respected: this standard act obliges public authorities to allow access to their meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the statement published on December 8<\/a>, \u201cMedia NGOs vehemently disapprove of the defiant attempts made by the People\u2019s Assembly of Gagauzia in order to hinder journalists\u2019 professional activity by establishing arbitrary and abusive mechanisms\u201d and regard the accreditation criteria and provisions for its withdrawal as \u201can eloquent way of censoring the media.\u201d The signatory organizations demand from the institution to annul its decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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