Acting president of Georgian Public Broadcasting, Nino Burjanadze, agreed Jan. 15 to dissolve and reform the GPB board of trustees using input from both the government and the opposition. The opposition has complained that only media sympathetic to the government remains since the forced and then voluntary closure of opposition station Imedi TV.
According to the Georgia Times, public defender Sozar Subari has suggested the company’s new board include ethnic and religious minorities and university authorities.
The opposition cannot influence pro-government Rustavi-2 and Mze, both stations privately owned by the same company. But they have spent days demanding that the state-run broadcast company fulfill its duty to cover issues without bias.
GPB also agreed to give airtime to opposition leader Levan Gachechiladze today after multiple protests outside the television station by his supporters.
