Gov't & President of POSPERT clash over ERT bill

The president of the National Federation of Television and Radio Employees (POSPERT) Panagiotis Kalfagiannis is not in agreement with the government’s bill that plans to restore the operation of public broadcasting service ERT. Kalfagiannis claims that it is “a tombstone for ERT” and has called on the government to reconsider its plans, while he also slammed his critics, namely SYRIZA parliamentary representative Nikos Filis.

It should be reminded that the previous coalition government (New Democracy/PASOK/DIMAR) shut down ERT as part of plan to restructure its services. Later on, a new public broadcasting service named NERIT emerged, which has repeatedly been criticized by many of the unionists and former employees of ERT.

One of SYRIZA's proclamations during the January 2015 general elections was to introduce a bill that would restore the operation of ERT.