Maliqi: Media NGOs perform work of public interest, power practice has been used as political instruments

The same has stressed that the practice of powers has been that support of media and NGOs is arbitrary and used as a mechanism for buying silence or for turning them into political instruments.

) ) NGOs and media do public interest work. Without them we wouldn't have asked. All these cultural festivals or reports on abuses of power. That's why NGOs and the media need financing mechanisms from our taxes, especially now that outside support is down. But the practice of powers has been that support is arbitrary and used as a mechanism for buying silence or turning media and NGOs into political instruments. For this reason, a way of secession of government control (central or municipal level) must be found on public financing of NGO and media activity. One way could be to carry this responsibility directly to the Assembly through the creation of a Public Interest Fund, with supervision from all parliamentary parties, but also out of politics (voting the Assembly's 2/3th) board and with its own budget. Governments and municipalities can design policies where they see role for NGOs and share the budget, but not even selecting them can and should only make an independent mechanism from executive powers, he wrote. /Periscope/