This monitoring report includes the results of  the evaluation of the performance of five radio and TV stations and establishes the following.

• The public stations Moldova 1 and Radio Moldova maintained their tendency to selectively observe the principles of fair, balanced and impartial coverage of the parliamentary elections. After CEC drew attention to their violations, a slight improvement with regard to impartiality, objectivity and diversity of opinions was registered on these stations in the final week of the campaign.
• Prime TV, a station with national coverage that chose not to participate in election coverage, covered many news items with an electoral character that promoted the image of the current government and, implicitly, of PCRM. The other electoral candidates were not presented in this station’s newscasts.
• NIT, a station with quasi-national coverage, openly promoted PCRM. The vast majority of the news articles about this party’s candidates were positive while those referring to the opposition were derogatory. This station used aggressive journalistic language and promoted hatred.
• EU TV, also with quasi-national coverage, covered the events related directly or indirectly to the campaign and the candidates relatively impartially. The large number of news items favoring PPCD indicates its partisanship in favor of this party.