Portugal: TV ombudsman receives 1,000 complaints about Communist party interview

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Portugal: TV ombudsman receives 1,000 complaints about Communist party interview

7:43 CAT | 26 Mar 2025

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The Television Ombudsman told Lusa on Wednesday that she had received more than 1,000 complaints about the interview conducted by RTP journalist José Rodrigues dos Santos with the secretary-general of the PCP on Monday.

Contacted by Lusa on the subject, Ana Sousa Dias said that she had received “more than 1,000 complaints” and that she was analysing the matter, as well as the series of interviews that Paulo Raimundo gave to RTP.

An official source at the Media Regulatory Authority (ERC) told Lusa on Tuesday that it had received “about 50 complaints” by that date about the interview with the PC secretary-general on the 24 March Telejornal.

The complaints “will be analysed by the entity’s services, under the terms of its Statutes”, said the same source, noting that “when a decision is made on them, the ERC will, as usual, make them public on its website”.

The PCP said on Tuesday that it would be lodging complaints with the ERC, the National Electoral Commission (CNE) and the Commission for the Professional Licence of Journalists (CCPJ) over the conduct of the RTP interview with the party’s secretary-general.

On Monday, the Communist Party said it would take “all legal measures” against RTP, according to a post on the social network X. The party denounced that it had been the target of provocation during an interview with the party’s secretary-general on the public broadcaster.

The PCP secretary-general was interviewed on Monday evening on Telejornal ahead of the early parliamentary elections due to take place in May.

During the interview, Paulo Raimundo was asked several times about the PCP’s position on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and this theme persisted throughout the ten or so minutes.

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announced that early parliamentary elections will be held on 18 May, following the political crisis that led to the AD government’s resignation, whose confidence motion was rejected in parliament.

Source: Lusa