Pedro Cateriano warns media quota bill ‘clearly unconstitutional’

Former Chairman of the Council of Ministers Peter Cateriano on Tuesday rejected a bill that proposes that the media be required to release a daily quota of 40% of national output.

“This is a clearly unconstitutional project that would have no procedure in a serious democracy,” he said in News Extension.

However, also a lawyer and a member of the Libertad Popular group said that the legislative initiative proposed by the congressman did not attract his attention. Alex Flores (Free Peru).

“The drama is that we have parliamentarians who have hardly read the Constitution, they do not know the basic rights that are enshrined in our constitutional text,” he said.

The submitted proposal has already received positive feedback from the committees of the Congress on transport and communications and culture and cultural heritage and is ready to be included in the agenda of the plenary session of the Parliament.

What does SNTV say?

National Radio and Television SocietySNRTV) warned that the bill “seeks to establish total control over the media” by imposing content quotas.

In a statement, the journalists’ union questioned whether the initiative was “misleading” about the need to support the distribution of national music productions when the goal would be to “facilitate the suspension and/or revocation of company licenses.” broadcasting”.

In addition, he described as “anti-technical” an attempt to change the Act on Performing Artists and Law on Radio and Television, applying a daily content quota of 40% of national production.

“In a clear attack on the right to choose citizens. The bill intends to boost the consumption of certain types of music and audiovisual programs by devoting nearly 8 hours a day to the content they intend to impose. The proposal not only intends to change national production emission quotas and the way they are calculated, it also excessively stipulates that non-compliance will be punished by the revocation of his work permit,” the statement said.

“This proposal violates the freedom of choice of users of various media, as it aims to control the content they consume, without taking into account the existence of thematic stations and specialized in a particular musical genre,” he said.

Finally, he recalled that this initiative was complemented by other initiatives affecting the role of the press and the media, such as the one aimed at limiting the practice of journalism to qualified and collegiate professionals in that specialty, and the one to increase prison sentences for slander. .