Media commissions in the hands of pro-government associations and organizations.

According to information from the Unified Information System (UIS) managed by the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications (MIT), the municipalities and cities where all commission members have one hundred points each are Crna Trava, Pirot, Trstenik, Novi Pazar, Irig, Kragujevac, Gornji Milanovac, Čajetina, Doljevac, Ada, Topola, Senta, Kladovo, Vranje, Babušnica, Despotovac, and Zaječar.

Among the members of the commissions elected upon the proposal of journalistic and media associations, the most frequently selected candidates in the commissions formed to date come from the little-known association, the Center for Media Culture and Education - with five representatives. The Professional Association of Journalists of Serbia (PROUNS), which primarily gathers members from pro-government media, has its representatives in four of the commissions formed so far.

Of all the representatives from journalistic and media associations in the commissions that have been formed to date, the most appointed is Petar Kočić, who is also a candidate from the pro-government association - the Journalists' Society of Vojvodina (DNV).

In addition to him, the representative and General Secretary of PROUNS, Slavoljub Ristić, was initially elected to five commissions, but, as reported by UNS, he was replaced by another candidate due to a conflict of interest in the municipalities of Svrljig and Dimitrovgrad.

As an independent media expert, Jasmina Mijajlović has been the most frequently elected member of commissions to date - serving in 10 out of 27. She is also the candidate who, regardless of whose proposal she was appointed under, has been elected to commissions the most times this year.

Following Mijajlović, the next candidate with the highest number of commissions in which he has been elected is independent media expert Boban Tomić, who is a member of six commissions.

Let us recall that the Rulebook on Co-Financing Projects for Achieving Public Interest in the Field of Public Information stipulates that the same candidate may be elected to a maximum of 20 commissions during one calendar year.

Source: UNS