"The authorities have shown that they are not able to form REM according to normality and democratic principles, so let them play alone now," journalist Antonella Riha, who resigned from the election process for the REM Council, told Vreme.
The repeated election of the REM Council and the debate of the proponents to reduce the 47 candidates to 18 are in progress, it was said at the session of the Assembly of Serbia
While the roar of the rebellious people was heard from the street, the arrogance and insolence of the progressive representatives disappeared, and when the noise passed - they continued as before. Our threats to withdraw from the process, nor our appeals to the domestic public and international observers, do not have much influence on the progressive machinery to falter in lies and fraud, and that is why the solution to return the repeated process to the legal framework is self-imposed: for students and rebellious citizens to return to where they will be heard by the government and Europe
The Committee of the Serbian Parliament for Culture and Information adopted on Friday (May 30), without opposition MPs, a report on the list of candidates and proposers for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM).
The election for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) entered a new phase. The Parliamentary Committee for Culture and Media is discussing them on Friday (May 30), and Citizen Initiatives found numerous irregularities among the proposers and candidates.
In one day, on Monday, April 28, there was excessive police force and laxity regarding the announcement of a competition for the REM Council. Is there a secret connection?
Although the Law on Electronic Media clearly defines the competencies of REM, practice shows the opposite. Instead of independent monitoring, REM is increasingly associated with passivity and selective response, which causes public and professional concern
At the session of the Committee for Culture and Information, the old concussion was annulled and a decision was made to initiate the procedure for nominating candidates for the election of members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM).
While at the moment everything at the student protests revolves around the demand for a new election of members of the REM Council, the argument between Olivera Zekić and the students in the blockade is ongoing. About who knows and who doesn't what REM really is
If the Parliament of Serbia announces a competition for REM Council members, the students who blocked the public service for two weeks announced the unblocking of this institution, but also said that they will remain organized and ready for new actions
The Bureau of Social Research (Birodi) proposed eight measures that should ensure the highest possible level of quality of candidates for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media
On the tenth day of the blockade of Radio and Television of Serbia, the President of the Assembly of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, announced a session of the Committee for Culture and Information, where they will discuss the election of REM Council members. The European Commission notes that the election should be conducted in a transparent and comprehensive manner
While students and citizens block the entrance to the RTS building for the sixth day, the Union of Public Service Workers announced four demands and said: the public service is essentially blocked by institutions that refuse to regulate the media scene. In particular, they requested an urgent call for tenders for the REM Council, whose work has been paralyzed since November
The fifth day of the blockade of the Radio and Television of Serbia buildings in Takovska Street in Belgrade and in Košutnjak is underway. The public service was forced to change the program scheme, and as they state, they are working in the most difficult conditions so far. A criminal complaint was also filed against the students blocking RTS buildings
Students have been blocking the Public Service for four days in Takovska Street and in Kosutnjak, demanding that a new competition be announced for REM Council members.
While the students block the RTS public service building in Belgrade, the program continues to be broadcast. Why did the students once again decide to block the buildings of the Public Service
The city administrations of Niš and Vranje paid millions of dinars from their budgets to pro-government tabloids, and especially to Informer. It is a systematic abuse of the media law, says Professor Rade Veljanovski
The recent president of REM, Olivera Zekić, did not report the apartment and garage she bought from Tanjug TV editor Jovana Joksimović to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption. It was a conflict of interest due to the granting of a work license to this television that preceded the purchase, CINS and BIRN reveal.
While Serbian citizens take to the streets en masse and students brutally fight each other, the country is left without two key pillars of government - the government and the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM). At the same time, the process of electing new members of REM, the body that should ensure the independence of the media space, completely fell apart due to irregularities and political manipulations that led to the withdrawal of candidates from most of the nomination areas.
None of those present at the meeting of the Committee for Culture and Information protested that Živorad Ajdačić was bothered by the emotion in, as he said, the "Gypsy language", the Opra Roma organization points out and demand that the National Assembly deprive him of all functions
Public discussions with candidates for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) are underway, and the profession indicates that the proposed candidates are not competent
Among the candidates are media expert Saša Mirković, political analyst Dejan Vuk Stanković and playwright Željko Hubač
Members of the Committee of the Serbian Parliament for Culture and Information adopted the list of proposed candidates with 11 votes in favor and four votes against
The Prosecutor's Office for the Fight against Organized Crime has informed the Bureau of Social Investigations (BIRODI) that there are no grounds for suspicion that the members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) have committed a criminal offense under their jurisdiction, for which prosecution is undertaken on an official basis
The Parliamentary Committee for Culture has concluded that the documentation of Željko Hubač is not valid and therefore does not have the conditions to run for the REM Council. Hubač claims that this is not true and states that the labeling of Nebojša Bakarec is subject to the Law on Discrimination
After a month and a half since the term of office of REM Council members expired, new candidates were proposed on Thursday. Who's on that list
REM's final report on the media coverage of last year's December elections, into which UNS had insight, but which REM does not publish, talks about the drastic disproportion of time devoted to the participants of the election process on the channels of all commercial national broadcasters, so the list "AV - Serbia does not sme da stop" undisputedly ruled the program of these televisions
