One category in question: List of approved candidates for members of the REM Council.
Candidates for the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) have been agreed upon in all nine categories. Authorized proposers selected two candidates in each category. Among them, the Assembly will ultimately choose one candidate to join the Council.
Nine members of the informal body Coordination of National Councils of National Minorities illegally voted at the meeting regarding the harmonization of national minority councils, which was a surprise for the authorized proposers from the Albanian and Bosniak councils, reports Cenzolovka on platform X.
"This body was illegally brought to the meeting, evidently only to vote for the candidate of the Hungarian national minority, Ištvan Bodžoni. The voting results indicate that, without the votes from the Coordination Body, the candidates from the Bosniak and Albanian national councils — Muhedin Fijuljanin and Ljumturije Ameti — would have entered the parliamentary procedure," Cenzolovka stated.
As they note, according to the recently concluded harmonization of candidates for the REM Council, the outcome regarding the illegal election in the category of "councils of national minorities" could play a decisive role in whether the regulatory body will be under government control.
"If the law is respected, the harmonization in that category would have to be repeated. It is evident that in that case, the candidate from the Hungarian minority would be eliminated, so ultimately in the REM Council, out of nine members, five would be unaffected by the government," Cenzolovka writes.
List of currently harmonized candidates:
Candidates from independent institutions: Stevica Smederevac and Gordana Predić
Candidates from churches and religious communities: Snežana Miljković and Mevlud Dudić
Candidates from electronic media publishers: Miloš Garić and Jovana Vitez
Candidates from child protection associations: Dušan Aleksić and Dubravka Valić Nedeljković
Candidates from journalism associations: Đorđe Vlajić and Mileva Malešić
Candidates from universities: Milan Petković and Vanja Šibalić
Candidates from associations dealing with freedom of expression protection: Rodoljub Šabić and Antonela Riha
Candidates from national minority councils: Ištvan Bodžoni and Muhedin Fijuljanin
Candidates from associations of composers and film, stage, and dramatic artists: Ira Prodanov Krajišnik and Mladen Matičević
The election of the Council will be placed on the agenda of the first upcoming session of the National Assembly following the public discussion with the proposed candidates.
Candidate biographies have been published by Cenzolovka.
