Belgrade drama arts students said on Monday that the blockade of the Serbian state TV (RTS) is over after a parliament committee called a new competition for members of the country’s electronic media watchdog.
The parliamentary Culture and Information Committee met on Monday afternoon and voted 15 to 1 to annul the previous competition for membership in the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), a supposedly independent body which has the power to allocate broadcasting licenses and impose fines on electronic media.
“A new competition for the REM Council has been called and that means the blockade of the RTS is over after 14 days,” the students of the Belgrade Arts University School of Drama Arts (FDU) said in an X post.
The students set up a blockade of the RTS headquarters in central Belgrade and studios in a suburb demanding either the shutting down of the RTS or a new competition for the REM Council.
Source: N1
