Parliament rejects national TV broadcaster's 2017, 2018 and 2019 activity reports, Board automatically dismissed

The Parliament plenum rejected on Tuesday the Romanian Television Broadcasting Corporation's activity reports for 2017, 2018 and 2019. The 2019 activity report fell by a vote of 239 to 142, the 2018 report had 144 votes in favor, 242 against and one abstention, and the 2017 report 141 votes in favor, 247 against and two abstentions. Senate Chairperson Anca Dragu said that the rejection of the reports results in the automatic dismissal of the Board of Directors of the public broadcaster. "Consequently, the Board of Directors of the public TV broadcaster has been dismissed. (...) Parliament appoints an interim CEO with a well-defined mandate for a period of 6 months," Dragu said.AGERPRES(RO - author: Alina Novaceanu, editor: Mihai Simionescu; EN - author: Simona Klodnischi, editor: Maria Voican)