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This morning, the Director General of the Bulgarian National Radio presented to the Electronic Media Council a letter informing the president of the Supervisory Authority Betina Joteva that he would like the contract with which he assumed the management of BNR to be terminated earlier November 1.
“I am extremely outraged by the lack of managerial will for a change in the Bulgarian legislation, which would guarantee the Bulgarian National Radio, independent and completely free from political interference,” Baltakov said in an interview with BNR.
According to Baltakov, c the report of Minister of Culture Boil Banov, which proposes a bill that modifies the Radio and Television Law, is replaced the text approved by the Bulgarian National Radio. The main changes demanded by Public Radio are excluded from the text presented, but below them is the approval of the Director General of the Bulgarian National Radio, received a month ago for another bill, explained Andon Baltakov, who demanded the resignation of Boil Banov.
“Do you know what the worst thing that shows the extreme insolence and arrogance of those who wrote this report: Boil Banov and his team? They have taken paragraphs from my cover letter in which I have motivated another bill on radio and television and have included that I am almost in favor of this bill. My opinion as general director of the Bulgarian National Radio is being manipulated and falsified, “argued Baltakov.
The bill, which was proposed to the public for discussion, is not the bill in which a working group of BNR, BNT, CEM, various ministries and media experts have invested hundreds of hours and knowledge, Andon Baltakov it is categorical.
“What infuriated me the most was the fact that the BNR supposedly supported this bill. The BNR supported another bill that was not actually put up for public discussion. There are no articles in the law that we have been working on – at least 7 or 8 members, whom we have personally appointed and argued, have personally motivated their presence, which concern the management of public media ”.
“There is no way to manage it. In this law we had very clear positions. There can be no public mission or new form of financing and they can be managed or organized in the old way. It is about the form.” who is responsible to the CEO for the way the boards of directors are formed, “added Baltakov.
“It does not matter whether Andon Baltakov or Hristo Petrov is CEO. Bulgarian law is imperfect. In two years, if I complete my term, I will have to propose a new Board of Directors. He will work with the future CEO,” said the head of BNR. . .
“It is really about laying the foundations of public media in Bulgaria. For 20 years and more, society wants to have guaranteed independent and free public media and we continue to shine and continue to do so purely from an administrative point of view to look for loopholes so that they can to leave gaps. That is why BNR in particular, I cannot speak of BNT, in order to promote political interests. I cannot allow this, “he said.
“I want Bulgarian National Radio to be politically and financially independent from day one. We eliminate fear. We are creative and financially stable. From now on, BNR, a treasure of Bulgarian society, should no longer be the subject of negotiation “, He said. more Baltakov.
