One category in question: List of approved candidates for members of the REM Council.

At the coordination of national minority councils, nine members of the informal body Coordination of National Councils of National Minorities voted illegally, which was a surprise for the authorized proposers from the Albanian and Bosniak councils, reports Cenzolovka on the X platform.

"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 of the Coordination Body, the candidates from the Bosniak and Albanian national councils—Muhedin Fijuljanin and Ljumturije Ameti—would have entered the parliamentary procedure," Cenzolovka reported.

According to them, based on the recently completed agreement on candidates for the REM Council, the outcome regarding the illegal election in the category of "councils of national minorities" could play a crucial role in whether the regulatory body will be under government control.

"If the law is respected, the agreement in that category would have to be repeated. It is clear that in that case the candidate from the Hungarian minority would be eliminated, so in the end, out of nine members in the REM Council, five would be those on whom the government has no influence," writes Cenzolovka.

List of currently agreed candidates:

Independent institution candidates: Stevica Smederevac and Gordana Predić

Church and religious community candidates: Snežana Miljković and Mevlud Dudić

Electronic media publisher candidates: Miloš Garić and Jovana Vitez

Child protection association candidates: Dušan Aleksić and Dubravka Valić Nedeljković

Journalistic association candidates: Đorđe Vlajić and Mileva Malešić

University candidates: Milan Petković and Vanja Šibalić

Associations dealing with freedom of expression candidates: Rodoljub Šabić and Antonela Riha

National minority council candidates: 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 on the agenda of the first upcoming session of the National Assembly after holding a public discussion with the proposed candidates.