WORLD NEWS FOR MONTENEGRO DIASPORA
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AUTHOR: M.J.
The eight candidates who took part in the election for the general director of the Radio Television of Montenegro (RTCG) plan to file lawsuits against the illegal election of Boris Raonic to the position of general director of the public service, because, as he said in a guest appearance on the central news program 24 Sata on Television E, one from the candidate Sabrija Vulić, many reasons and elements that indicate a violation of the law.
He added that they will look for a way to get the truth and justice through legal means.
"That coming to justice was the reason for an unexpected situation to happen for Montenegro, which is that the eight opposing candidates joined forces. We should be competitors, but we should join together for the very reason that we want to help make this a real state of law and to respect rights, to respect laws. That is our overriding goal. To respect our profession. In this group of eight people, they have extensive work experience behind them, they are people with 25 to 30 years of work experience and more, and we believe that we have learned enough about journalism and the media, and that we can rightly help someone to the younger generations so that things like this don't happen in the future, which is our primary goal," said Vulić.
He reminded that it is the third time that Raonic has been elected to the position of general director of RTCG, and if, he explained, the election for acting director is counted. director of the Public Service then for the fourth time. He adds that Raonic was elected illegally this time as well, because he does not meet the requirements of the competition.
"I will remind you that Raonic has two final court decisions that he was illegally elected in 2021 as general director, but he also has two verdicts from the Basic Court that he was illegally elected in June of last year. The first judgment of the High Court was confirmed by the Supreme Court. Also, the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) determined that there were elements of corruption in both elections, and we are waiting to see what will happen with that. These two final verdicts are related to the fact that Mr. Raonic did not fulfill the conditions of the competition in 2021, for two items each, namely insufficient number of years of work experience and conflict of interest, because at that time he was a member of the Agency for Electronic Media. he emphasized.
He noted that the RTCG Council asked for an opinion from a law office with which, according to Vulić, the only right to communicate is Boris Raonic and perhaps the legal department. The same opinion, he adds, was read at the consultation session of the RTCG Council. Vulić emphasized that if the Council asked for that opinion, there is an abuse of position, and if Boris Raonic did it, it is, as he says, classic corruption.
The writing of media laws, as he explains, in consultation with the re-elected director of the public service, Boris Raonic, means that "the game in the whole process is very well done".
"Five years of experience, with all due respect, is not enough to manage seven hundred or so employees, some seven different media entities and so on. It is obvious that the ground was being prepared for what will happen now. Whether a mistake was made we will see in what follows. What we are very interested in is the question of the Council. Who asked for the opinion of the law office, and the second question, which is even more important, why the opinion of the law office was not asked for what we asked for - the opinion of the state institution, which is the Labor Inspectorate, which will provide a relevant answer to this question", emphasizes Vulić. .
He stated that the candidates for the director of the RTCG will also inform international organizations about the events surrounding the election of the general director and added that they will also inform the leading people in Montenegro, because they expect the protection of the state and the Public Service from them.
"International institutions must know what is happening with the largest media house in Montenegro, which is the RTCG Public Service. Accordingly, I hope that there will be a reaction, because this reaction is necessary in the interest of the citizens of this country. This has nothing to do with politics. The eight of us are all different people, we have different opinions, but we have one common opinion - and that is that we want improvement for the Television of Montenegro, which, according to us, is in constant affairs", said Vulić.
Everything that happens in RTCG is, as he says, bad for the citizens, because they are the ones who finance the Public Service. It is just as bad for the employees of that house, they say, adding that the question arises as to how valid are all the signatures put on the documents by the illegally elected General Director of the Public Service, because it may happen that the employees themselves bear responsibility for doing so.
"This is a legal mess that we have to get out of, but if there is no will, primarily political, and if there are no institutions that need to deal with this issue, I don't think we will take a step forward," said Vulić.
International institutions, as he said, can initiate solving problems, not solve them, that's a job for domestic institutions, because it has to be reviewed everything that happened in that media house.
"Interpersonal relations are disturbed, there are many problems that are not visible from the outside, there are many problems inside, beatings and similar things. We heard in Mr. Raonic's promotional speech that he was threatened with dismissal. This is a house, unlike some others, that the eight of us love, because we see it as our own house. I have been with the Television of Montenegro since 1998, with one short break of a couple of years, and I really love that house, I love the people who work there and, of course, I respect the work I do. Thirty-five years allows me, even these gray hairs, and me and my colleagues, who applied for the competition, to fight for the truth, to fight for justice," concluded Vulić.
