Through his Twitter account, the Secretary of State stated that the current Media Law establishes a “hyper-regulatory” regulation on requirements that must be met and the content that must be broadcast by radio and television media, and conceives a mechanism of “administrative control and sanction, in which the Justice does not intervene”.
“With such a rigid framework and a sanctioning mechanism in the hands of an Audiovisual Communication Council (CCA) without parliamentary control, a body that was never integrated, since 2014, the conditions for a misuse of the tool are given,” said the hierarch. .
Paganini stated that freedom of expression is one of the basic guarantees for the proper functioning of democracy, and for this reason “the Executive Branch promotes the repeal of Law 19,307 (Media Law, regulating the provision of radio services, television and other audiovisual communication services) in the current Rendering of Accounts”.
Guarantor of freedoms
The Secretary of State said that Parliament is studying a bill that he defined as “fair and guarantor of freedoms”, and added that the country has a legal system prior to the current Law “adjusted to the regulations and conventions international protection of freedom of expression.
For this reason, Paganini asked the legislators to support the repeal of that norm, in parallel with the advance in the discussion of the definitive project. “It is a key step to ensure the exercise of one of the most important democratic rights.”
