Coutinho accuses TDM of running ‘election campaign’ for Jiangmen Communal Society

Lawmaker Pereira Coutinho accused the TDM Chinese Channel of running “electoral propaganda” for the Macao Jiangmen Communal Society, an avid supporter of legislator Mak Soi Kun campaign to AL.
On a topic raised by the journalists during the press conference of Coutinho and Leong Veng Chai yesterday afternoon, Coutinho referred to a program of the TV station focused on the association and where the legislator is highlighted saying “[it raised] questions of professional ethics and unfair competition as it was clear for the citizens that the programme was of electoral purpose since the lawmakers were there doing personal promotion,”  adding that a channel supported almost exclusively by the government cannot show preference for candidates to the AL.
“We have received several complaints and even questions about when [we] would be broadcast[ing] the programme of the ‘fellows of Portugal and of Macau.’ We are waiting for the call from  TDM to do that programme,” he said, adding “the government needs to inspect TDM and not let things develop in this way creating social instability, creating unfairness and social friction” he said.
To recall, the same association announced recently that it will distribute shopping vouchers and other gifts for a large number of members. Coutinho calls on the government to establish “a real law” based on the “conflict of interests” and that grants powers to a permanent organization to investigate and to sanction these practices at least for a period of “one and half years before the elections.”