National Theatre Belgrade is currently without a Board of Directors. Instead of five members, it has only three, which means it has no legitimacy.
At the beginning of October, Iva Bojović Petković resigned as a member of the Board of Directors, and due to circumstances, this body was left without Nataša Madžarević Mijailović. Those circumstances are as follows:
According to the law, four members are appointed by the Ministry of Culture, and the fifth is from among the employees elected by the representative trade union, in this case the Branch Trade Union of Culture, Art and Media "Nezavisnost". It was Nataša Madžarević Mijailović.
The board of directors is illegal.
On July 18, the branch union of culture, art and media "Nezavisnost" decided to withdraw its representative Nataša Madžarević Mijailović from the Board of Directors, reacting to the decision of the Ministry of Culture to Dragoslav Bokan was appointed as the President of the Board of Directors.
This union says that the decision was not immediately implemented, but that "on October 31, Madžarević Mijailović resigned from the Nezavisnost union, thus formally ceasing to be a representative of the employees."
With that act, the Board of Directors of the National Theater was left without a member who comes from the ranks of employees, which means that the body no longer meets the legal requirements regarding its composition.
They emphasize that "according to the regulations, the National Theater Board of Directors must have an employee representative elected by a representative union. Without that member, the decisions of the National Theater Board of Directors can be questioned."
They say that they will not propose a new member from their ranks as long as Dragoslav Bokan is there.
The current composition of the Board includes the president Dragoslav Bokan, the retired actor Milenko Pavlov and the composer Miroljub Arandjelovic Lisinski.