Draft amendments would lower the bar for removing Lithuanian National Radio and Television’s top management
Lithuania’s state broadcaster LRT has accused the ruling coalition of trying to subjugate independent media, as lawmakers fast-track amendments that would make it easier to dismiss the outlet’s director general.
Parliament last week backed the first reading of a bill submitted by Remigijus Zemaitaitis, leader of the populist Dawn of Nemunas party, to lower the dismissal threshold to a simple majority from the current two-thirds. Zemaitaitis has since floated a compromise requiring at least seven of the council’s twelve votes, while the…
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