Albania: : Parliament amends formula for election of public service broadcaster’s General Director

• Autores: Ilda Londo
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 6, 2016
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • On 14 April 2016, in a plenary session, the parliament voted to change the rules for the election of the General Director of the public broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar. The Act no. 22/2016 “On some additions and amendments to the Act no. 97/2013 ‘On Media in the Republic of Albania’” stipulates that the General Director of the public broadcaster needs 3/5 of the votes of the Steering Council members to be elected. If this does not happen in the first three rounds, he/she can be elected in the next two rounds through a simple majority. In case all five rounds fail, the Steering Council will be dissolved. Before these amendments to the Act, Article 102 of Act no. 97/2013 stated that the Steering Council can approve and dismiss the General Director with 2/3 of the votes, and did not set a limit on the number of voting rounds.