Cape Verdean President promulgates RTCI Against Journalists

Cape Verde has a new media company, RTCI, a fusion of radio, TV and news agency, Inforpress, which entered into force on Saturday, 24 October.



The President of the Republic of Cape Verde, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, enacted on September 21, the legislation that creates a new media company, RTCI, a fusion of radio, TV and news agency, Inforpress, which entered into force in Last Saturday, 24 October, a month later, it was published in the Official Bulletin.

The initials of the new media company, RTCI signify Radio Television Cape Verde & Inforpress. And if the head of state enacted, it is because they do not pose constitutional problems and because it was in accordance with the law, emanating from the Prime Minister of the Government, José Maria Neves.

This is a government that claims to want to reform "reduce costs and develop synergies between journalists and workers of the three companies, Radio, Television and Inforpress, which will retain their autonomy.

The truth is that in developed Western countries that respect civil liberties, press freedom, the right to information and expression and opinion, there is a preference for separation between the radios televisions and news agencies.

Are media with different working methods and philosophies, especially news agencies.

In France, for example, there were some attempts to governments, who wanted to make similar mergers, but were never adopted, because journalists, politicians and intellectuals, denounced these reforms, like antics of executive power to control public media.

Incidentally, this reform merger of three public media in Cape Verde, was also denounced by the opposition of the MPD and UCID, who denounced an attempt to control them, the government of José Maria, saying that the surge less than a year of Cape Verde's general elections.

The journalist Valdemar Pires, a leading Pivots newspapers in Television Cape Verde, told RFI that journalists and, by and large are "this very concerned about this moment in this new company, RTCI."