Syriza
blames the resignations of Nerit chairman and his deputy on a
government directive to the station not to broadcast the speech of
its leader to the Thessaloniki International Fair on Saturday
“Nerit
chairman and CEO Antonis Makrydimitris stepped down on Thursday,
along with his deputy Rudolph Moronis, only four months after Nerit’s
first chairman, George Prokopakis, was replaced two days after the
station went on air.”
“In a
message posted to Facebook some hours before his resignation, Moronis
gave strong indications that Nerit’s independence was being
compromised. 'If you declare that you want to create something
independent, impartial and of good quality but you don’t mean it,
don’t assign the job to someone who does,' he wrote.”
“On
Friday, Syriza’s newspaper Avgi, under the headline 'Coup to
silence Tsipras', said the resignations followed a government
directive not to broadcast the speech of its leader to the
Thessaloniki International Fair on Saturday. It is understood that
the government made it known that Nerit would only broadcast Alexis
Tsipras’ press conference from Thessaloniki on Sunday.”
“In
previous years, the Thessaloniki speeches and press conferences of
the prime minister, main opposition leader and other party leaders
were always broadcast live. However, since he became prime minister,
Samaras has not given the traditional press conference, with the
government's slot taken this year by deputy premier Evangelos
Venizelos.”
“The
resignations of Nerit’s CEO and deputy – who in the past were
associated with New Democracy – came a day before the deadline for
the submission of applications for the broadcaster’s managing
board.”
“Earlier
this week, an Athens court ruled that the government was wrong to
fire 10 ERT employees last year and that they should be given their
jobs back. That followed a ruling by a Crete court in May that said
the firing of another 20 ERT employees was illegal.”
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