Media Center: Mandić obliged to ensure the implementation of the Law on RTCG

AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS

Media Center today submitted an initiative to the President of the Parliament of Montenegro, Andrija Mandić, for the implementation of the Law on RTCG, the Media Center announced.

The initiative reminds the President of the Parliament that Article 27 of the new Law on the National Public Broadcaster-Public Media Service of Montenegro (Official Gazette of Montenegro, No. 060/24 of 24.06.2024) stipulates that: "The President of the Parliament shall initiate the procedure for the appointment of a new member of the Council no later than 120 days before the expiration of the mandate of the current member of the Council."

"The mandate of RTCG Council member Amina Murić, who was appointed from among NGOs in the field of human rights and freedoms protection, which deal with the realization and protection of: national, gender and overall equality; the right to a healthy environment; consumer rights; the rights of persons with disabilities or the right to education and social protection, expires on June 11.

Also, the mandate of RTCG Council member Marijana Camović Veličković, who was appointed from among trade union organizations represented in the Social Council, expires on June 11 and it is necessary to send an invitation for the appointment to trade union organizations.

We remind you that it is necessary to send an invitation to the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts and Matica Crnogorska to appoint their representative instead of Predrag Miranović, who resigned from the position of member of the RTCG Council," reads the statement signed by Goran Đurović, director of the Media Center.

If, as they say, the new law is to be respected, then the public call for the appointment of new members of the RTCG Council had to be announced by February 11 of this year.

"We also note that, based on Article 25 of the Law, the Administrative Board is obliged to prepare a form in which non-governmental organizations, as authorized proposers for members of the RTCG Council, submit work reports for the previous three years.

If this procedure is not initiated immediately, there is a possibility that in June the RTCG Council will be reduced to 6 members (out of a total of 9), which will make decision-making more difficult.

Also, if the procedure for appointing a new member of the RTCG Council is not initiated immediately, there is room for suspicion that there are political reasons for the violation of the law by the President of the Parliament of Montenegro," the statement concludes.