The 4 members of Serbia’s national electronic media regulator who resigned over a dispute with the parliamentary Culture and Information Committee are refusing reinstatement based on that committee’s decision, saying only parliament can resolve the issue in line with the law.
The Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) Council has not been fully operational since late 2025 when all 4 of its independent members resigned. The Committee ended and restarted the election of Council members claiming that the resignations had not been formally processed causing the nominees who resigned to dispute the committee decisions.
Last Thursday, the Committee ended the nomination procedure for a Council member to represent national minorities pending the elections for new National Minority Councils and called the 4 new members who pulled out to take up their positions in the REM Council on June 25.
The new Council members who resigned said the committee decision confirms that the regime has given up on the persistent illegal, discriminatory favoritism of one candidate and expressed hope that the procedure would be transparent and inclusive.
The REM Council was a major point of contention between the ruling coalition and opposition parties. That body decides who gets TV frequencies and is supposed to warn and punish any station that breaks the law which critics claim it has not done. Most of the frequencies that give TV stations national coverage are pro-regime.
Source: N1
