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 On the other hand, a campaign is also about political initiatives, and editors are supposed to cover those.  The tendency to date has been that initiatives by Government or the President have been referred to by the media without a critical approach or without requesting the opinion by the opposition, and referring to it as coverage of normal Government business.  This is an issue which goes far beyond election law, but with the detailed regulation of the current law, there should also be a general provision, which gives the editors the possibility of covering political issues brought up during the campaign, with a strictly neutral and unbiased approach.  One possibility would be to issue a more detailed Code of Conduct for editors during election period.  TV/Radio Moldova is currently the only nationwide medium, which is in favour of ruling parties.  Nevertheless, there is also approximately half of media in favour of opposition parties, and they have consequently access to the media.