Camović Veličković: RTCG lawyers are now referring to verdicts that they have been trying to challenge for years

The Deputy President of the RTCG Council, Marijana Camović Veličković, announced that the acting (acting) general director of the Public Service, Boris Raonic, continues to be favored over other candidates for the position of general director.

She stated that a consultative meeting was held yesterday between members of the RTCG Council and part of the RTCG Legal Service to discuss the technical details of the upcoming session.

"The favoritism of one candidate for the position of general director over eight others continued, so after a false rumor was created in the public about the question of whether the current acting and twice illegally elected alleged general director Boris Raonic even applied, yesterday we were presented with a legal opinion that is in his favor. Namely, the lawyers of Radio-Television of Montenegro, Bojan Zeković and Zorica Đukanović, who are also known for the fact that they have not yet succeeded in winning a single court case in which RTCG was sued due to the two appointments of Raonic, have now clarified that the fact that he was appointed twice (which is the maximum allowed under the new Law on the National Public Broadcaster) does not actually represent an obstacle and that he can still be a candidate . legally annulled and that 'by annulling the act, all the legal consequences produced by that act are annulled.' RTCG, for years, has been trying to challenge the court verdicts that say that Raonic was elected illegally, and as far as the public knows, they are now representing that case before the Constitutional Court. So, while in those processes they advocate the position that Raonic was legally elected, now they are referring to the finality of the verdict that he was illegally elected, because it benefits Raonic in this case," Camović Veličković said.

He also states that it is interesting that the two years of work experience that Raonic gained in the position of general director in the annulled mandate, according to the opinion of lawyer Zeković, remain indisputable "even though he himself states that 'with the annulment of the act, all legal consequences produced by that act are also annulled '".

"That's what he said yesterday in response to my question. Without those two disputed years, the candidate Raonic does not meet the miserable criterion of five years of work experience in the VII1 vocational training in managerial positions, which he himself determined when writing the new Law on RTCG. The document submitted by the lawyers is also interesting from the aspect of timing, which is also projected. I remind you that the names of the candidates for the General Director of the Public Service were announced to the public only 17 days after the end of the competition, i.e. on August 26. On Friday, August 23, the lawyers gave the green light to Raonic's candidacy, and on the first working day after that, I asked Zekovic when they were asked for their opinion and he said that they received the email on August 20. I also asked them, considering that the document says that RTCG is a client, a authorized for similar issues is the acting general director, who is now a candidate, so he could not request it himself. service and why in favor of one of the candidates because it is definitely not the competence of the Council as a body or its members individually. Council member Amina Murić, generously sharing responsibility with Drljević, said that she hired them," Camović told Veličković.

She adds that on August 19, she asked for the documents of the candidates to be submitted so that they would know who applied and what they were offering, but that the Council's Professional Service told her that the envelopes would not be opened yet because they were waiting for the mail. He points out that Drljević, a member with the same powers as her, "knew the names much earlier and was proactive in Raonic's favor".

"I will not write about the bullying that I experienced yesterday from individual members, i.e. members of the Council, in order not to divert attention from the candidates for the election of the general director, which will be decided during a non-working day in the late afternoon, so that it would be covered as little as possible by the media and how I consider everything that I have mentioned important for the public, but above all for the other eight candidates, who are all media professionals, with decades of work experience and university education, and who bravely participate in predetermined quasi-elections in which they will beat the worst by all parameters," concluded Camović Veličković.