Radical Party Senator Ernesto Sanz.
Amid increasing criticism by the opposition questioning the Supreme Court’s decision to rule the constitutionality of the Broadcast Media Law, Radical Party MP Ernesto Sanz accused the government of seeking to “build a state-run monopoly.”
“The government has fostered a Media Law and the AFSCA media watchdog aiming only at building a state-run monopoly, a system to maintain a fictitious story,” the MP told reporters and added that the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration has a “sectarian perspective” that “media and journalists that defend the government and persecute independent reporters.”
Sanz also ramped up his criticism of the Federal Authority of Communication Services (AFSCA) headed by Martín Sabbatella, the office in charge of enforcing the Broadcast Media Act recently declared by Argentina’s Supreme Court constitutional.
“The Supreme Court ruling has accelerated the debate over the role the AFSCA has to play, a role that is not fulfilling correctly,” the Radical senator said describing AFSCA’s activities as “biased”, “satisfying the demands of the Executive power” and not that of the law which should be more “democratic, integral, open and plural.”
“This is a government that does not know how to resolve the deterioration of education quality, security issues, energy supply, so transition years will be difficult,” Ernesto Sanz affirmed renewing the opposition pledge that the 2013-2015 period ahead of the presidential elections is a “transition” time marked by the “end of the Kirchnerite era.”
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