The pre-candidate of Broad Front (FA), Carolina Cossestated this Friday that if she were elected president of the Uruguay will repeal the Media law voted this week in the Senate and which includes a controversial article about objective political information.
“Yes,” she responded categorically when asked by the press about whether she would repeal the media law. “In the middle of an electoral campaign, when there is an astonishing number of minutes used in advertising, a bill with these holes is presented in a hurry. Who benefits from this? It is a question that must be asked,” she noted during her campaign visit to Long Hill.
Regarding the most controversial point of the law that was urgently introduced and dealt with in the Senate on Tuesday despite the fact that the previous week it had begun its circuit in committee and that it had been half-sanctioned in Deputies for months, Cosse warned that article 72 “ smells like censorship”.
It includes the requirement of Open Town Hall (CA) on political information content. “Citizens have the right to receive political communication in a complete, impartial, serious, rigorous, partial and balanced manner between political actors,” the additive states.
“That article can support any complaint against journalists,” he said, adding that an opinion program cannot be required to provide impartial information. “I am very concerned from a democratic point of view about drilling into the freedom of expression”.
“It seems to me that it is an important enough issue that at least it should be addressed in the Industry Commissionit is discussed, it is called experts, the citizens understand and know and manage what is being talked about,” said Cosse.
The mayor on leave Montevideo and former president of Antel He also considered that the voted media law damages the state telecommunications company by opening the fixed internet market. “This is aimed at opening fiber optics and this is as if Coca Cola allowed people to put a Pepsi in the refrigerators it installs. “It is puncturing all the public investment that was made,” he assured.
Source: Ambito
