SĆF: The Committee for Culture and Information suspends its own interpretation of the law.
In a scandalous vote at today's meeting of the Committee for Culture and Information, the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, the Share Foundation, and the Center for Democracy Foundation were restored to the status of authorized proposers of the REM Council, despite the Committee's earlier interpretation of the law, which stated that only citizen associations, and not organizations registered in the Registry of Endowments and Foundations, could hold this status.
If the Culture and Information Committee interprets the Law on Electronic Media in such a way that foundations do not meet the criteria to be proposers of candidates for the REM Council, then the vote to "make it happen" and accept our participation in the nomination process, at the very least, represents manipulation and an attempt at trading.
The law is either applied or it is not, and no majority vote in the assembly can suspend its application.
The "broad hand" with which the Committee, at the suggestion of the Vice President, grants us the status of proposers, contrary to its own (distorted) interpretation of the law, constitutes grounds for yet another criminal complaint due to the new scandalous conduct of the Council election process.
Although we believe that the Committee's interpretation, which states that foundations cannot be authorized proposers of candidates for the REM Council, is not in the spirit of the Law on Electronic Media, we have decided to accept such a stance that the Committee adopted at the last session. With this in mind, we did not submit the requested supplementary documentation to the Committee to prove that we are a citizens' association – because we are not.
We did not ask anyone for preferential status compared to organizations that were requested to provide a different type of supplement and which sent additional documentation on time and within the deadline.
The Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation does not accept the offered bribe, nor is it willing to trade the outcome of the elections for the REM Council. A functional and independent regulator is the paramount interest of the citizens of Serbia, which surpasses the interests of the Foundation or any individual proposer. With this, as well as all previous actions in this process, the ruling majority has completely undermined and violated the legality of the procedure.
The SĆF will continue to closely monitor the process until the very end, as well as to inform the domestic and international public of all observed irregularities in the election of members of the REM Council.
Source: Cenzolovka
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