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The Association of Independent Electronic Media strongly condemns the attack on journalist Nikoleta Jošović from "Glas Šumadije."

The elections for the REM Council are reminiscent of the previous competition, which ended with seven independent candidates withdrawing due to very serious shortcomings in the entire process, says FDU professor Ana Martinoli. She adds that we are still very far from having a REM in practice as envisioned by the law.

The Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) calls on the members of the Committee for Culture and Information of the National Assembly of Serbia to make fair and impartial decisions regarding the proposed candidates for members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) at tomorrow's session, strictly adhering to the Law on Electronic Media.

The Parliamentary Committee should reject the candidacies of Žarko Simović and Stevica Smederevac for the REM Council, as they have been working in REM for years and are complicit in its illegal activities, concluded the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation.

The network of professors, associates, researchers, and other employees at the University of Novi Sad and other higher education institutions in Vojvodina, "Slobodan University," has announced its strong opposition to the manner in which their university has been involved in the process of proposing members of the REM Council, as well as to the candidates that have emerged from that process.

"Very little can surprise us anymore in this long process of selecting the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM), which has been ongoing for a significantly longer time than it currently appears. What is unusual is that beneath a major student victory and the pressure they exerted for the competition to be repeated, there seems to be agreement among the authorities, the public, and the EU to conclude this process by the end of summer. However, beneath this apparent consensus, everything is actually boiling over; I believe there is no real consensus, as all participants have different ideas on how to bring this process to a close, and I have no optimism about how it will turn out," said Professor Snježana Milivojević from the Faculty of Political Sciences for N1.

The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) strongly condemns yesterday's public appearance of the President of the National Assembly, Ana Brnabić, in which she presented a series of falsehoods and manipulative interpretations of the provisions of the Law on Electronic Media (ZEM) concerning the selection of members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM).

The Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation warns that Bojan Bilbija's candidacy for membership on the REM Council does not meet legal requirements: he has not proven that he has worked for 10 years in electronic media, has appeared on pro-regime TV 448 times, and has spread intolerance and propaganda.

The representative of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), Saša Mirković, stated today that the renewed process of selecting members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) "is not progressing in a positive direction" and noted that it resembles the previous, annulled process, when seven candidates withdrew due to irregularities.