Slobodan Cvejić, a former member of the Council of the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Media (REM), believes that the announcement of elections is connected with the shutdown of the media.
Former member of the Council of the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Media (REM), Slobodan Cvejić, believes that the announcement of elections is related to the shutdown media and thinks that media shutdown “brought even more people to the streets.”
“This whole move once again highlights the journalists, who are doing their job properly, like clay pigeons, as if it opens the door and says come on in, hit them. This wave is unstoppable. Whether it will last a month, 11 months, 21 months, it is not easy to predict. I would just like all things to end peacefully, so that there are no victims. And for now we are expressing our democratic right to raise our voice, we are fighting on all fronts where we can because that will show the true face of Serbia,” said Cvejić, as reported by FoNet
Journalists like clay pigeons
“Nova and N1 journalists are now like clay pigeons,” Cvejić said.
He reminded that in a short time, the talk about how the unallocated frequency could belong to TV Nova, “because it has a complete program, various content and sufficient viewership, came to the point that there is a threat that it will be shut down”.
“It is possible that the editorial policy will be influenced and that the new director will say: ‘from tomorrow it will be like that, and you do as you like,'” he pointed out, as reported by FoNet.
He went on to say that he believes “that there was a serious effort, that the journalists of Nova and N1 television made great sacrifices in order to cover these events properly, sometimes exposing themselves directly to threats of physical violence.”
REM selection
Commenting on Ursula von der Leyen’s visit, he said that “the whole process around REM is not going in the right direction, as she said.”
“She is satisfied with the fact that some institutional process has been completed. I am sure that where there is someone independent and one candidate who is clearly under the control of the SNS, they will vote for the one who is controlled. So they are introducing us to the status quo, which will now only have formalization,” Cvejić believes.
He assessed that the process related to the REM Council will be “completed institutionally”.
“And we will be stuck in the fact that they won’t be able to make decisions in the REM Council about some important things. The fact that they won’t be able to decide on something major works in the hands of the regime. You need to have six votes in favor of revoking permits. That simply won’t happen,” said Cvejić.
Source: FoNet, Vreme
