There will be another attempt to arrive at consensus and the formation of a new National Council for Radio and Television (NCRTV) on Monday afternoon, following the government’s decision to propose a former minister that served in a main opposition New Democracy government, Vyron Polydoras, to head the Council.
Asked to forecast the outcome, given ND’s rejection of Polydoras’ candidacy, Parliament President Nikos Voutsis noted only that “we will know tomorrow night what will happen tomorrow.”
He was replying to questions on the sidelines of a SYRIZA event at the National Resistance monument in Thessaloniki to mark the anniversary of the city’s liberation from Nazi occupation troops in 1944.
In response to questions about whether Polydoras was able to enable a consensus, Voutsis replied:
“There is consensus about restoring collective memory and the need to restore the social fabric after so many years of painful policies in order to exit the crisis. This is what counts now.”
No excuse for ND following transfer of powers back to NCRTV, Minister of State Pappas says
Responsibility for organising a new tender procedure for the issue of television licences will be transferred back to the NCRTV, as was originally envisaged under the law 4339/15 on regulating the television sector, Minister of State Nikos Pappas repeated on Sunday. As a result, ND had no excuse for not cooperating to form a new NCRTV that will regulate the sector, he added.
“The excuse of the [NCRTV’s powers] does not exist for ND. No one can understand what conditions, or perhaps excuses, it is setting yet again. ND has an obligation to prove that it has a basic sense of constitutional responsibility and to contribute to the formation of the NCRTV,” Pappas concluded.
Legislation is to be tabled on Monday that will abolish article 2A in law 4339/15, which transferred the powers of the NCRTV to the government, sources said on Saturday. Once this is passed, all responsibility and authority for conducting the tender procedure for awarding television content licences will go back to the NCRTV.
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