BLOG Raonic was at a meeting with the members of the RTCG Council the day before the vote on his re-election was to be held

Under what pretext did public official Boris Raonic cheat on his promise to appear on the Načisto show? The guests in the studio of Television News were: Marijana Camović - member of the Council of RTCG, Predrag Miranović - former member of the Council of RTCG and Srđan Čović - technical leadership of RTCG

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Ažurirano: 06.12.2024. 00:32h
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22: 12h

The show aired the reaction of the MIA investments company to the previous show in which Đorđe Zenović, the leader of the "Movement for the City" list in the local elections in Budva, was a guest.

 
22: 01h

Miranović said that he is not in a pleasant position, but on the other hand, he is calm.

He said that RTCG and the judicial system of Montenegro were harmed by disregarding judgments and court proceedings.

He said that it is high time to end the whole story in a legal way.

Camović said that she demanded the resignation of the members of the RTCG Council who voted for the decision, after which there were two legally binding court verdicts that they illegally re-elected Boris Raonic.

"They didn't even want to put it on the agenda to be discussed. In the coming days, we will have to have a Council session related to the adoption of the financial plan for the next year. We will have a very interesting situation where four members of the Council who are being prosecuted for possible criminal actions they committed as members of that same Council to decide on a budget of over 20 million euros. They will of course have the nerve to sit and make those decisions. And the Administrative Board should either suspend them or immediately solve it," Camovic said.

Čović said that there are two more bloody reports for an organized criminal group and a dozen civil disputes produced by Boris Raonic and his lawyers.

"I think it has to be resolved. I think a year ago I said that the RTCG is in institutional agony. It's still going on, someone has to cut it off," Čović said.

21: 54h

Camović said that Boris Raonic handed over his position in the Council of the Agency for Electronic Media to Milan Radović, program director of the Civic Alliance.

Raonic was once the head of that non-governmental organization (NGO).

21: 53h

The scheme of the Civic Alliance was shown in the show:

 
21: 48h

Čović said that he was the head of the general director's office, and after that he was the head of statistics.

He said that Raonic, in violation of the regulations, fired people from his office with the help of the legal department.

21: 39h

Miranović said that he was not silent at the sessions of the Council, but that he was the most active.

When asked what happened to the money that Boris Raonic earned while he was in the position to which he was illegally elected, Miranović said that he did some actual work.

"Some kind of exchange can be made, so that he returns the money he earned, but he also has to be compensated for his actual work in some way. Because it is irreversible," said Miranović.

Camović said that it is known that Raonic receives up to 4.000 euros per month.

She also said that his salary was calculated illegally, both on the first day when he took office and today, because the Rulebook on the variable part of the salary is in force in the Public Service, which allows him to earn two average salaries over and above what he is entitled to by the collective agreement.

21: 29h

The show also aired a conversation with the former general director of RTCG Andrijana Kadija.

 
21: 27h

Reactions of the Delegation of the European Union, the Embassy of the United States of America and Maja Sever, President of the European Federation of Journalists on this topic were broadcast in the show.

Radio Television of Montenegro (RTCG), as a national public broadcaster, has an emphasized responsibility to fully respect the law and the highest standards of professional integrity and responsibility, said the Delegation of the European Union (EU) in Montenegro.

When asked by the editor and author of the show "Načisto" Petar Komnenić to express their position regarding the situation in the Public Service and the two illegal appointments of the general director Boris Raonic, as well as the opening of the prosecution's investigation against certain members of the RTCG Council, they said that the competent authorities should address any possible breach of the law to ensure that the national public broadcaster fully complies with national legislation as well as relevant international and European standards.

When asked whether these changes, as the deputies of the ruling Europe Now Movement (PES) claimed, were a fulfillment of the recommendations of the European Commission, the EU Delegation said:

"During the drafting of a package of media laws, including the Law on the National Public Broadcaster RTCG, the Commission provided extensive technical support and guidance on a number of important legal provisions that needed to be harmonized with current EU standards. The Commission's advice was included in the draft law that was adopted by the Parliament. When it comes to the conditions for the selection of the management of public broadcasters, it is a matter of national competence, not EU competence," they said.

The US Embassy in Montenegro announced that court rulings must be respected in order for Montenegro to fully become a country governed by the rule of law.

When asked by the editor and author of the show "Načisto" Petar Komnenić to express their position regarding the situation in Radio Television of Montenegro and the two illegal appointments of general director Boris Raonic, as well as the opening of the prosecution's investigation against certain members of the RTCG Council, they said that the United States of America reiterate the importance of respecting the rule of law and court rulings, as well as providing a professional, independent and responsible public media service RTCG.

"Accordingly, Montenegro must strengthen the independence of the media, ensure conditions for their financial sustainability, protect the independence of media regulators, promote transparency of media ownership and facilitate access to public information. A professional and independent national public broadcaster is of vital importance and should serve as a role model in that process," said the US Embassy.

 
21: 23h

Čović, commenting on what MP Vasilije Čarapić of the Movement Europe Now (PES) said in a mini-interview broadcast on the show, said that he heard that Vasilije is in matter, but that the spirit of logic is outside of Vasilije.

21: 21h

Miranović said that it was clear to him that the Government intended to lower the conditions of the competition.

Camović said that MP Vasilije Čarapić of the Europe Now Movement (PES) has once again become entangled in a topic that he wants to manipulate and does not know how to defend his theses.

"It is clear that Boris Raonic drafted the law for himself, it is clear that the government supported it, it is clear that unfortunately the majority of the deputies also supported it. The media union tried to change that by presenting arguments why we should not draft a law for a man who already there, according to final court judgments, illegally," said Camović.

21: 15h

The show aired a correspondence between Branko Krvavac, Prime Minister Milojko Spajić's chief of staff, and Neđeljko Rudović, director general of the Directorate for Media in the Ministry of Culture and Media.

 
21: 11h

The program aired a mini-interview with MP Vasilije Čarapić of the Movement for Europe Sad (PES).

 
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21: 05h

Čović said that they apparently have some magic words with which Boris Raonic manipulates the majority of the members of the RTCG Council "let's go further", "of course with him".

He told Miranović that he had an elegant solution to achieve what he had stalled, that is, to have the competition cancelled.

"If you had used the white paper by not filling the quorum, you would have realized your good intention. I think the only elegant solution of the Council was to cancel the competition on June 1," Čović said.

He said that the problem was that if the competition were announced, Boris Raonic would not be able to be the general director of RTCG because the pace of preparation of the new law was not under his control.

21: 03h

Camović said that those who voted for the re-election of Raonic chose him by force, and that they did not put him through the "eyes of a needle".

She said that at the preparatory meeting, Raonic sat next to her and said that he had a lot of work to do, that he needed to sign a collective agreement, that he had a hundred documents, and that it should be finished quickly and that he should move on.

"I said let the Council decide. He said you know it will be like that. I said unfortunately I know and that is our tragedy. After he gave them the signal that he should be on that list, the lawyers, encouraged, started to pronounce it," said Camović.

20: 54h

Miranović said that each member of the RTCG Council acted sincerely believing that they were acting in accordance with legal acts.

He said that he was advocating that the verdict be implemented and that the competition be canceled and a new one announced, to which those who need to apply will apply.

He said that the second part about the repetition of votes can be problematic and that he was not inclined to it.

20: 51h

An interview with Zoran Radović, president of the High Court, was broadcast on the program Načisto.

 
Change: 22:22 p.m
20: 28h

Miranović said that when Boris Raonic was re-elected as General Director of RTCG, his ballot was empty.

That vote was on June 1, 2023.

"The voting was secret. If there is a forensic examination by the court or the prosecution, they will find that my ballot was empty," Miranović said.

The editor and host of the Načisto show, Petar Komnenić, said that although he did not vote, Miranović left a blank ballot and secured Raonic's election through the quorum.

"If it wasn't for your vote, that election would not have been possible. Does that make you as responsible as all the other people who voted for him?" Komnenic asked.

He said no, because a member of the Council is obliged to participate in the work of the Council. 

Komnenić asked Miranović if it was a surprise for him what the result of the vote on June 1, 2023 would be, since that session and vote was preceded by a "working meeting" of the members of the RTCG Council, which was also attended by Boris Raonić and people from the legal department of RTCG .

"Before the vote on June 1, did you have a preparatory meeting with the man you were supposed to decide on?" asked Komnenic.

Miranović said that the day before the session where the vote was held, there was a working meeting and that he thinks the administration invited him.

When asked what Raonic was doing there with the lawyers from the RTCG, if the judgment should be passed on him tomorrow, especially after the information that he came to office illegally, Miranović said that there was no place for Raonic there.

"It didn't affect me, such a meeting could have been broadcast on television. I spoke at that meeting as I thought. I don't remember Boris Raonic except at the beginning. I discussed with the lawyers. I remember the arguments of the lawyers and the RTCG legal service. Their the argumentation was related to the implementation of the court verdict. When I read the court verdict, from the text that the RTCG can repeat the vote and make a choice between the remaining candidates, I understood that text that it should not be on the ballot. Boris Raonic. The argument of the RTCG legal service and the lawyer was that this was not the case and that the court left room for different interpretations. It turned out that I was wrong in one of the judgments ruled," Miranović said. 

The Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica previously filed an indictment against the president and four members of the Council of Radio and Television of Montenegro, due to the illegal appointment of general director Boris Raonic.

According to the unofficial information of "Vijesti", they are accused of abuse of official position in co-perpetration.

The indictment was filed against Council President Veselin Drljević and members: Filip Lazović, Amina Murić, Naod Zorić and Predrag Miranović.

"The Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica submitted an indictment to the Basic Court in Podgorica against the defendants, the president and members of the Council of RTCG, VD, FL, AM, NZ and PM for the criminal offense of abuse of official position in co-perpetration, and on the occasion of the election of the general director of RTCG, BR, on June 01.06.2023, XNUMX," ODT told "Vijesti".

20: 25h

Camović said that she did not expect Boris Raonic to appear on the Načisto show.

"He would rather talk about journalism, artificial intelligence, Netflix, about everything he knows nothing about, than about final court verdicts, criminal acts that have been happening for three years, the court process of which he is the cause, because they guarded his chair. The fact that Željko Ivanović says that he is a liar in my columns is funny to me, it probably hurt him. He would rather talk about everything than about his malfeasance," she said is Camović.

20: 18h

The editor and host of the Načisto show, Petar Komnenić, said that he had sent a formal invitation to the general director of RTCG, Boris Raonic, to participate in the show.

The show aired the correspondence between Komnenic and Raonic:

 
20: 05h

Camović said that this situation fundamentally destroys the whole concept and everything that we as a society supposedly stand for.

"The public service was once called TV Bastille. Processes, procedures, and affairs are currently taking place in the public service that have never been recorded before. So that TV Bastille still exists, it has only slightly changed its form, in the sense that it is much more brazen, rude and naked . But hold on," said Camović.

Čović said that an institution that was conceived to improve the processes and social life of the state is becoming the complete opposite of that.

"Things are happening there that should never happen. The law is being broken, people who are loyal to the institution have been professionally degraded. I think that institution can no longer represent an example of an institution," Čović said.

Miranović said that there are too many court processes and judgments that cannot be resolved in RTCG and court proceedings.

He said that the court ruled that Boris Raonic came to the post of General Director of RTCG illegally.

"What caused the problem was the implementation of the court verdict, where the members of the Council and the legal representatives of RTCG had different opinions regarding the implementation," said Miranović.

Change: 20:17 p.m

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