Director General of First Channel of Georgia resigns

Vasil Maglaperidze, Director General of the First Channel of Georgia, has resigned. Maglaperidze has already filed the relevant application with the Board of Trustees of the First Channel of Georgia.

According to Vasil Maglaperidze, the First Channel of Georgia has made significant progress in all directions since 2017, which was achieved by the high professionalism and teamwork of his colleagues.

“I can state with full responsibility and any objective observer can be sure that today the Public Broadcaster is as impartial as possible, journalists enjoy maximum freedom, and at the same time have a great responsibility not to provide viewers with unverified or false information.

Even though I am fully convinced that the First Channel will cover the upcoming elections and all other political processes impartially, I decided to resign in order to prevent any doubts about the channel's impartiality”, Vasil Maglaperidze says in his statement released by the First Channel of Georgia.