« Win, victory, » echoes in front of RTS: a new competition for Members of the REM Council – BBC News in Serbian
Double-week blockade of Serbian Radio and Television (RTS) in Belgrade, public service paying all citizens, could be suspended.
At the session of the Cultural and Information Committee, submitted by opposition parties, on April 28, the previous procedure for proposing candidates for the election of the Council of the Electronic Media Council (REM), from November 2024. years, and a new competition was adopted.
Students have previously announced that the blockades will be completed if the parliamentary committee will initiate a new Member Procedure, which should regulate them in order to protect public interest and development of freedom of opinion and expression.
The adoption of the decision on the new competition was welcomed with applause and shouting: « victory, victory » gathered in front of the RTS building in the center of Belgrade.
« No one is tired, RTS is free, » students sing in Takovska Street.
The RTS building blockade began 14. April.
At the time, students of the Novi Sad University blocked the Radio-Television of Vojvodina, and at the same time, students of the Belgrade University employed RTS facilities in the center of Košutnjak, where a large study complex.
They said they were dissatisfied with RTS reported on their actions and protests.
To students who block colleges for months, seeking responsibility for Novi Sad tragedy when 16 people were killedAnd the girl was hardly injured and fighting for a living, some citizens were joined in the blockade of RTS.
From the beginning of the blockade, RTS management calls students an action in illegally and asks that it is interrupted.
RTS continued to broadcast the program, but the scheme has been significantly changed and there are no common shows, especially not live, because due to blockade in public service, no one can enter.
The RTS administration also filed criminal charges against NN persons due to « disabling the right to work », as well as « persecution of journalists and editors ».
How was the session of the Cultural and Information Committee?
After three and a half hours, MPs voted two points of the agenda.
They unanimously supported the annulment of the previous procedure, and almost everyone voted to blend a new competition.
Previous procedure for the selection of new members of the REM Council was practically suspended, because seven out of a total of 18 candidates have withdrew candidates, claiming that the process abounded in irregularities and illegalities.
Another candidate, professor of the Faculty of Teacher Education and Political Analyst Dejan Vuk Stankovic, meanwhile he was appointed Minister of Education.
The majority in the Cultural and Information Committee consists of MPs of the ruling coalition, led by the Serbian Advanced Party (SNS).
The term of office of the previous convocation of the Council of REM expired 4. November 2024. years, and the new was not elected for almost six months.
What is the regulatory body for electronic media (REM)?
Independent independent regulatory organization The successors of the Republic Broadcasting Agency (RBA) established 9. July 2003. in accordance with the 2002 Radio Diffusion Act. Years.
RBA is 2014. changed the name to the regulatory body for electronic media (REM).
REM consists of advice that has nine members and the President of the Council.
Among other things, REM is in charge of To control the work of electronic media, especially those with the national frequency – therefore, which are seen in the entire country.
REM can also explicit measures of television that violates the rules.
In previous years, opposition parties accused the REM that the lever was in the hands of the Serbian president of Serbia Aleksandra Vučić.
When the RTS and RTV blocks started in Novi Sad, on social media they wrote That « public service works against all ».
« How does REM do not work – no one can tame them. The protest lasts until a new competition for REM or while RTS does not go out. »
Two weeks later, on the order « Students_U_LOOKDI » online IX They corrected the attitude:
« We do not call on the extinguishing of RTS, but we are looking for something completely different, that RTS becomes an independent public service, which objectively reports and respect legislation. »
The same request also has a collection of public service workers, which is 20. April called on the Parliamentary Committee for Culture to respond urgently.
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