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Yunani perintah ingkar penyiar untuk penutupan

By JohnnyAdam | MADAyu@1WORLDCommunity

TINJAUAN 1WC’sChannel 2013: ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Wartawan dipecat dari TV kerajaan Greece dan radio enggan meninggalkan ibu pejabat penyiar dan terus pengaturcaraan Internet, kerana kerajaan konservatif pimpinan negara berhadapan dengan krisis politik yang teruk hampir setahun selepas memegang jawatan.

TV Negeri dan isyarat radio dipotong awal Rabu, jam selepas kerajaan menutup Broadcasting Corp Hellenic, atau ERT, dan pecat pekerja 2,500 itu yang memetik keperluan untuk mengurangkan "sisa yang luar biasa". Tetapi beribu-ribu penunjuk perasaan yang kekal di luar utara ibu pejabat gergasi ERT daripada Athens sepanjang malam sebagai wartawan terus siaran langsung, yang mengalir dalam talian.

Kesatuan wartawan dipanggil mogok 24 jam, menghentikan program berita televisyen swasta, manakala rakan-rakan gabungan pusat-kiri kerajaan menuntut penutupan ERT itu diterbalikkan. Perdana Menteri konservatif Antonis Samaras menghadapi pembangkang tegas dari rakan-rakan gabungan itu - Pasok Sosialis dan parti Kiri Demokratik - untuk keputusan itu. Perintah eksekutif untuk menutup ERT perlu disahkan oleh Parlimen dalam tempoh 3 bulan tetapi tidak boleh diluluskan tanpa sokongan daripada ahli parlimen pakatan minoriti.

Pemimpin pembangkang berhaluan kiri Alexis Tsipras mengecam penutupan itu sebagai "haram" dalam satu temu bual di siaran online ERT ini. "Banyak kali 'rampasan kuasa' perkataan digunakan sebagai keterlaluan," katanya. "Dalam kes ini, ia tidak keterlaluan."

Tsipras berkata beliau akan bertemu presiden negara lewat Rabu dan meminta beliau untuk membatalkan perintah eksekutif dia menandatangani membenarkan kerajaan untuk menutup ERT.

Keputusan itu diumumkan semasa pemeriksaan di Athens oleh pegawai-pegawai daripada pemiutang bailout Greece. Apa yang dipanggil "Troika" Kesatuan Eropah, Bank Pusat Eropah dan Tabung Kewangan Antarabangsa telah mendesak kerajaan untuk memulakan program lama tertangguh untuk memecat kakitangan awam.

Penutupan mengejutkan ERT kini merupakan salah satu daripada krisis terbesar menghidap kerajaan campuran tiga parti sejak ia ditubuhkan hampir setahun yang lalu.

Walaupun ketegangan ke atas beberapa isu, terutama yang berkaitan dengan langkah-langkah penjimatan yang dituntut oleh pemiutang antarabangsa Greece, kerajaan campuran telah mengejutkan banyak pihak yang masih hidup. Ia juga telah dikreditkan dengan menstabilkan diselamatkan ekonomi Yunani dan mengurangkan ancaman keluar dari euro.

Jurucakap kerajaan Simos Kedikoglou berjanji Selasa untuk membuka semula ERT pada tarikh yang ditentukan kemudian, tetapi sedang menghadapi bantahan yang semakin meningkat di Greece dan luar negara. Kesatuan terbesar Greece, yang GSEE dan ADEDY penjawat awam', mula mesyuarat tergempar untuk menentukan serangan mungkin sebagai tindak balas kepada perkembangan ERT.

Dan Geneva, Switzerland berasaskan Kesatuan Penyiaran Eropah menyatakan "kecewa yang mendalam" dalam surat kepada Samaras, menggesa beliau untuk menukar arus.

Greek broadcaster defying order to close

REVIEW 1WC’sChannel 2013: ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Journalists fired from Greece's state TV and radio refused to leave the broadcaster's headquarters and continued Internet programming, as the country's conservative-led government faced an acute political crisis nearly a year after taking office.

State TV and radio signals were cut early Wednesday, hours after the government closed the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., or ERT, and fired its 2,500 workers, citing the need to cut "incredible waste". But thousands of protesters remained outside ERT's giant headquarters north of Athens through the night as journalists continued a live broadcast, which was streamed online.

Journalist unions called a 24-hour strike, halting private television news programs, while the government's center-left coalition partners demanded that ERT's closure be reversed. Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras faces stern opposition from his coalition partners - the Socialist Pasok and Democratic Left party - for the decision. The executive order to close ERT must be ratified by parliament within three months but cannot be approved without backing from the minority coalition lawmakers.

Left-wing opposition leader Alexis Tsipras slammed the closure as "illegal" during an interview on ERT's online broadcast. "Many times the word 'coup' is used as an exaggeration," he said. "In this case, it is not an exaggeration."

Tsipras said he would meet the country's president later Wednesday and ask him to cancel an executive order he signed allowing the government to close ERT.

The decision was announced during an inspection in Athens by officials from Greece's bailout creditors. The so-called "troika" of the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund has been pressing the government to start a long-delayed program to fire civil servants.

The surprise closure of ERT is now one of the biggest crises to afflict the three-party coalition government since it was formed nearly a year ago.

Despite tensions over a number of issues, notably related to the austerity measures demanded by Greece's international creditors, the coalition government has surprised many by surviving. It has also been credited with stabilizing the bailed out Greek economy and easing the threat of an exit from the euro.

Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou promised Tuesday to reopen ERT at an unspecified later date, but is facing growing protest in Greece and abroad. Greece's largest unions, the GSEE and the civil servants' ADEDY, began emergency meetings to decide on likely strikes in response to the ERT developments.

And the Geneva, Switzerland-based European Broadcasting Union expressed its "profound dismay" in a letter to Samaras, urging him to reverse course.

Online:

Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. http://www.ert.gr/