Article by Daniel Grigore – published Wednesday, July 30, 2025, 18:23 / Updated Wednesday, July 30, 2025 18:23
The National Audiovisual Council (CNA) has sanctioned the television station Realitatea Plus for several episodes in June, including for the denigration campaign that targeted Gigi Becali, the FCSB owner.
Met on Tuesday, The CNA forced the post Realitatea Plus to broadcast, for 10 minutes, a sanction text as a punishment for the denigration campaign to which he subjected Gigi Becali.
Those attacks took place In the context in which Gigi Becali withdrew his support for George Simion, the golden candidate, at the presidential electionswon by Nicușor Dan.
CNA, decision in the Gigi Becali dispute – Reality Plus: “Political execution!”
Within the meeting, Valentin Jucan, Vice President of the Councilhe said that Becali was the victim of a “programmatic behavior of the law”. This is after the mentioned position, he tendentiously presented more information about the FCSB owner, a deputy and until recently a member of the Gold Party.
Another CNA member, Mircea Tomacommented on the same case that Becali was “attacked in a way and face. Previous interventions are cited, old statements are used just to continue the attack. The shows had an almost daily frequency between May 22 and June 25”. “Was an act of political execution”, He said, according to paginademedia.ro.
For the repeated attacks to which he subjected Becali, the television station is obliged to broadcast the text of the sanction granted by the CNA. This will happen on Wednesday, August 6th.
Gigi Becali asked to close the job!
This is not the first time that Realitatea Plus is sanctioned for the lynching campaigns to which he subjected Gigi Becali. Another CNA decision, implemented on May 28, was to suspend the post emission for 10 minutes. In April, Becali had asked in a CNA meeting for the post to be permanently closed!
“I wanted to see these pictures with my daughter (No – broadcast on post). They bother me the most. Of course it bothers me because it's a rude attack. It is no longer the freedom of the press. Well, what's the freedom of the press? You have a television you have to blackmail with. Or if it doesn't suit you that a person has another political option means you have to attack him?
Whatever makes the CNA, I challenge in court. Why? I want to close the post. I want to close the post, why, first of all, it's not a job. It is mafia, blackmail and manipulation of elections in Romania. Where is your power, the CNA, if you allow that? ” Becali said at that meeting, according to paginademedia.ro.
Fake News about Praid Beavers, sanctioned with 30,000 lei
In a separate case, the mentioned post was fined 30,000 lei for a series of false information presented in the context of the Praid disaster, where the floods destroyed the local saline.
The television station claimed that some beavers were to blame for floods, who would have changed the course of a stream. The Carpathia Conservation Organization was accused of bringing the beaver families to the Praid area. Representatives Realitatea Plus stated that it would be “led by people of Hungarian source”, with a Swiss billionaire pulling the shades in the shadow.
Reality? That organization operates in the Făgăraș area, not in Harghita, so that Mircea Toma, a CNA member, said that “It was the mission of the post, for three days, to execute this foundation for its activities. The key to this sanction is the bad faith”.
