The interim government led by Cătălin Predoiu has introduced an unprecedented change in the relationship with the press: the debut of the Government meetings will no longer be transmitted live, and the journalists will no longer have access to the meeting room. The measure significantly reduces the decision-making transparency in a tense political moment.
The executive is conducted interim by minister Cătălin Predoiu Photos Photos/George Călin
Also, the government meetings will no longer be transmitted in real time on social networks, but will be registered and subsequently transmitted.
Usually, at the end of the government meeting, the ministers went to the press briefing to answer the journalists’ questions. From now on, the only present will be the spokesman.
The government meeting started on Thursday morning at 10.00. Typically, the prime minister announced the main projects discussed, his speech being transmitted in real time by both televisions and on the official pages of the Executive on social networks.
The restriction comes just one day after the boss can, Anamaria Gavrilă, said in a video broadcast in Parliament that the access of the press was restricted before in certain areas of the institution.
We recall that Marcel Ciolacu resigned from the position of prime minister on Monday, May 5, one day after Crin Antonescu, the PSD, PNL and UDMR Coalition candidate, ranked 3rd in the first round of the presidential elections, failing to enter the second round. The interim management was taken over by Cătălin Predoiu, the Minister of Internal Affairs.
