The director of the Kolašin Cultural Center can also have a higher education diploma

With the amendments to the Statute of the Kolasin Center for Culture, the director of that institution will be able to be a graduate of higher education in the future. Until now, the provisions of the Statute specified that one of the requirements for a director is a university degree.

The newly elected Council of the Center was supposed to adopt those changes, along with the Public Procurement Plan, at the session scheduled for Wednesday. The session, however, was adjourned without an official explanation.

Seven months ago, after less than two years as director of the Kolašin Center, Gorica Ilinčić submitted a request for dismissal. She never explained why she no longer wanted to run that institution, and the Kolasin Municipality praised her work. Officially, the misunderstanding between Ilinčić and the local government arose because of employment at the Center. The new director has not yet been appointed.

Ilinčić's predecessor, Branislav Jeknić, after 17 years at the head of the Center for Culture, resigned three years ago. Jeknić became director back in 2007, at a time when the city was governed, as it is now, by the government consisting of the DPS and the Group of Voters (GB). Although he was perceived as close to the DPS, he remained in the position of director even after the coalition Democratic Front - Socialist People's Party (SNP) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) came to power in 2014. There were no official objections to his work from any of the parties that were in the ruling coalitions. However, due to his cooperation with the former authorities on the rationalization and systematization of jobs in that institution, he was a frequent target of unofficial criticism from local DPS and GB officials.

At the beginning of this week, the Democrats announced that the Council session, where the Statute was supposed to be changed, was called illegally. They called on the members of the Council to "prevent the degradation of the institution, which must by no means serve as a training ground for party supremacy within the Kolašin parties in power".

"The law clearly stipulates that the decision on the appointment of members of the Council can exist in legal circulation only when the changes in accordance with the decision are registered in the Central Register of Business Entities (CRPS). As this did not happen in this particular case, the last changes were made by inspecting the CRPS for the Public the Center for Culture institution held on March 18, 2020, such convening of a Council session is not possible. The newly elected President of the Council is still not authorized to schedule sessions, let alone to make decisions at those sessions," claim the Democrats' club of councillors.

The party reminds that a few months ago they pointed out "that the current government intends to change the Statute of the Council of the Center for Culture to create a parexcellent party staff member with a university degree as the director of the Center".

As it is written in the announcement of the Democrats, "it is now clear why the proposal that Darko Drljević, a famous cartoonist, should be at the head of the council was not agreed to".

That proposal of the Democrats was not adopted by the ruling majority, so the President of the Council is Željko Braunović.