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REM (Regulatory Body for Electronic Media) is an independent and autonomous organization that exercises public authority in the field of electronic media in the Republic of Serbia. Its goal is to enhance the quality and diversity of media services, as well as to contribute to the preservation and development of freedom of thought and expression. REM is functionally and financially independent, and its main bodies are the Council (which consists of nine members) and the Director. The organization's headquarters is located in Belgrade, at Nikola Pašić Square No. 5.
Gorica Popović on withdrawing her candidacy for the REM Council: Students have been haunting RTS for days in vain.
"I have withdrawn my candidacy for a member of the REM Council due to numerous irregularities in the election process, due to violations of laws and legal regulations," says actress Gorica Popović for Danas.
Agreed upon 10 candidates for members of the REM Council in five categories.
Members of the Assembly Committee for Culture and Information, along with authorized proposers who did not withdraw from the process, agreed on Friday, June 13, on ten candidates for members of the REM Council in five categories.
Judita Popović: The process of selecting the REM Council is senseless; an EU response is necessary.
Former member of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), Judita Popović, stated today that the process of selecting a new REM Council is nonsensical and that the decision of candidates to withdraw their candidacy is rational.
Antonela Riha: Flagrant Violation of the Law During the Elections for the REM Council
A total of 78 proposers and 16 candidates have so far withdrawn from the process of electing members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), leaving a significant opportunity to reevaluate the political, social, and media environment in which this formally independent body is supposed to be elected.
Reconsideration of Candidates for the REM Council: Why is it Important for This Body to Exist?
Two months later, a new competition, but the outcome is the same – another withdrawal of candidates from the selection of members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media Council. After 78 authorized proposers and 16 candidates withdrew from the process, it is clear that this attempt to form the REM Council, which has not existed for more than six months, has failed.
78 authorized proposers, 16 candidates have withdrawn from the process of electing members of the REM Council so far.
We, the authorized proposers, candidates, and candidates for members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), hereby inform the public that we are withdrawing from further participation in this process. Our decision comes after none of the total of 30 objections submitted by legitimate proposers were considered, and warnings about serious violations of the law and misinterpretations of fundamental legal norms were ignored.
Both Željko Hubač and Ivan Lalić have withdrawn from the election for REM.
The Association of Dramatic Artists of Serbia has announced that it is withdrawing from the further procedure for the selection of members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media, supporting the decision of its members, Željko Hubač and Ivan Lalić, to withdraw their candidacies due to a lack of transparency and numerous irregularities in the election process.
Gorica Popović and Mladen Matičević have withdrawn from the process of selecting members of the REM Council.
Film artists Gorica Popović and Mladen Matičević have withdrawn from the selection process for members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), film associations announced today.
Mirković: The selection of the new REM is motivated by the government's desire to open Cluster 3 and secure funding from the Growth Plan.
It would be good for REM to be the first or one of the few independent institutions that functions properly in abnormal circumstances, but the authorities want things to remain the same, believes Professor Aleksandra Krstić from the Faculty of Political Sciences, while Saša Mirković from ANEM thinks that the election of a new REM Council is motivated by the government’s desire to open Cluster 3 and receive funds from the Growth Plan.
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