The administrative board proposed to the Parliament of Montenegro to appoint Edin Koljenović and Andrijana Nikolić as members of the Council of the Agency for Electronic Media (AEM).
Koljenović was proposed by NGOs dealing with the protection of human rights, and Nikolić by the Association of Commercial Broadcasters of Montenegro.
The board also issued a public invitation to determine the proposals of candidates for two members of the Commission for Concessions from the ranks of distinguished experts.
In a letter sent to the Assembly on February 1, the Ministry of Capital Investments requested that the Assembly nominate candidates for members of the Concessions Commission, in accordance with the Law on Amendments to the Law on Concessions, which came into effect on July 4, 2020.
On July 23rd of last year, the administrative committee of the previous convocation of the Assembly determined the proposal of candidates for two members of the Commission, and at the session of July 27th, the Assembly decided to propose Božidar Pižurica and Samet Murić to the Government as members of the Commission for Concessions.
On February 21, 2021, the Assembly requested notification from the Government as to whether the two members of the said commission had been appointed, and received a response from Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić that the previous Government had not done so and that it was necessary for the Administrative Board to initiate the procedure for determining a new proposal of candidates for members. Commissions for concessions.
Deputy of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Suzana Pribilović said that the Government, regardless of whether it was the previous or current composition, had proposals of the Assembly that it should have considered, and then inform the Assembly that the proposals were not accepted and that new ones were required.
President of the Administrative Board Milun Zogović (Democratic Front - DF) said that the Government of former Prime Minister Duško Marković did not appoint the proposed candidates within the stipulated period, and the new Government took the position of re-opening the procedure.
Ljuiđ Škrelja (DPS) said that any government, especially not the "apostolic one", has no right to be ignorant of the Assembly's conclusions if legal advertising was carried out in accordance with the law.
"It was realistic that the Government would reject or not accept that candidacy at the session itself...", said Škrelja.
The board made a decision on the termination of the right to earnings for the former judge of the Constitutional Court, Mevlida Muratović, due to her retirement, as well as a decision on the payment of severance pay.
The Board has formed a Commission that will review the received documentation of candidates for members of the Council of Radio Television of Montenegro (RTCG) by March 25.
Deputy of Democratic Montenegro Vladimir Martinović said that he is happy that the process of nominating new members of the RTCG Council is coming to an end and that they have already received candidacies:
"For the simple reason that what we have today on the media scene of Montenegro, and it concerns the Public Service, is something that is really worrying, something that is devastating, because it is not the Public Service of all citizens of Montenegro - it is the Public Service and the DPS party cell ", said Martinović.
He pointed out that he hopes that the Administrative Board and working groups and everything they will do in the coming period will contribute to the fact that after 30 years "we have a Public Service that will serve the honor and pride of all citizens, and that it will never again be under the control of any political party nor any political leader".
Škrelja said that the RTCG was not DPS, nor would it be a "front".
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