SCANDAL: Victory Pacolli calls on Government and Parliament to take action against the media

Vetevendosje MP, Mrs. Victory Pacolli, through a scandalous speech in the Assembly, has called from Parliament and Government to take measures against the media in Kosovo.

The following may be the most brutal calls we've heard, and you read so far, like blows to democracy, respectively, media independence.

Even as the Parliament and the government, we need to take measures is that in recent years major private media investments have been observed, through which the possibility of intervention and influence has been created on some mainstream and online media that are being used for business purposes and political blackmail. So here we seek the attention of the Parliament and Government to take measures, and to understand more what's going on with media functioning, with transparency and identification of media ownership”, said Pacolli, here comes Periscopi.

We hope that the Association of Kosovo Journalists, as well as other relevant regional and international institutions in defending journalism, will immediately react to this scandalous part of this address by MP Pacolli.

This statement, is disturbing to the fact that it is seen as a continuation of the tendency of power to hit the media, despite the country's best-known media, have consolidated Redaxes, are taxable to the state of the Republic of Kosovo and their ownership is not unknown (View Impressumes).

We remember that Kurti Government is one of the most nontransparent governments the media have ever faced. In many ministries, and in many figures holding leading positions in the state of Kosovo, the most prestigious media in the country, have constant complaints that they do not get answers to the issues they seek. /Periscopi