The Association of Professional Journalists of Montenegro (DNPCG) submitted a complaint to the Agency for the Protection of Personal Data and Free Access to Information due to the silence of the administration - due to the non-decision of the Council of Radio Television of Montenegro on the request submitted by "Vijesti" on April 16.
"Vijesti", after the management and RTCG did not provide details regarding the dismissal of Vladan Mićunović, the editor of the foreign policy editorial office at the time, and after the general director Boris Raonić had directed it, sent a request to the Public Service for free access to information. .
Referring to the Law on Free Access to Information, the RTCG was asked to provide access to the initiative for starting the dismissal procedure, records of Vladan Mićunović's presence at the workplace, records of his work performance, the decision on Mićunović's dismissal, as well as Vladan Mićunović's contract.
Mićunović was dismissed in mid-April, and Raonic announced at the time that the dismissal took place in a regular procedure, based on hierarchically defined procedures, "the same ones that he carried out when he was a manager".
He also stated that the initiative was launched due to Mićunović's work performance and records of attendance at the workplace, that all details on this matter can be provided to the interested public if necessary, and for the editor, as he stated, they are unacceptable in any serious media.
Mićunović then denied that he did not fulfill his work obligations, said that this was "not the reason" for his dismissal and announced that Raonic "harassed and persecuted him for months without any reason", and finally dismissed him.
Raonic denied allegations of alleged bullying.
Due to the dismissal of Mićunović, the Media Center reacted at the time, stating that the management and editorial staff of TVCG owed the public an explanation as to why Mićunović was dismissed.
The President of the Media Center Assembly, Dragoljub Duško Vuković, stated in the announcement that the Public Service is obliged to do so due to the fact that Mićunović addressed the public on this occasion and presented a series of accusations against those behind the shift. He said that it is not serious that Raonic responded to Mićunović's public advertisement on his private Facebook page.
"It is not about the dismissal of the head of a suburban grocery store so that Raonic would only share his opinion with his friends on a social network. The management and editorial staff of TVCG are indebted to the public in connection with this transfer, especially since Vladan Mićunović is not someone who belongs to the unrecognizable journalistic average, but is also recognizable in the Montenegrin media community, as well as beyond," said Vuković at the time.
He also said that a few years ago, Mićunović was illegally removed from the post of director of TVCG by the then management, and that, as he said, this was preceded by a direct political action by the then Montenegrin government led by the Democratic Party of Socialists "in which the Council of RTCG was purged of unfit, and filled with those whom the terrain recognizes".
Vuković then announced that "the current managerial and editorial team of the national public media should rely on the professional legacy left by Vladan Mićunović and general director Andrijana Kadija, who were also illegally dismissed by the DPS authorities, in their intentions to reform RTCG".
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