The Chairwoman of the Committee on Culture and Information of the Serbian Parliament, Nevena Đurić, has scheduled a session of the parliamentary committee for April 28th, at which a decision will be made on initiating the procedure for proposing candidates for the election of members of the REM Council.
The initiation of this procedure is a request from students who have been blocking Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) since April 14th.
Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabić stated that the session of the parliamentary committee was scheduled following a request from opposition members of that committee.
Opposition MPs in the parliamentary Committee for Culture and Information submitted a request today to hold a session of that Committee with the aim of initiating a new procedure for the election of members of the REM Council, stating that they are also responding to the request of students protesting in front of Radio Television Serbia.
Brnabić told reporters in the Serbian Parliament that she was calling on students to end the blockade of RTS, or, as she stated, to stop the "terror and harassment of RTS workers, which has lasted for more than 200 hours."
"I call for the blockades to be lifted, I call for talks, for the humiliation of people to be stopped, for the persecution and threats to be stopped. Let's get back to talking, talking is healing," Brnabić said.
The blockade of the public service building has been ongoing since April 14, and RTS previously announced that due to "difficult working circumstances" it was forced to adjust its programming schedule, that it had filed a criminal complaint with the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade against unidentified persons - the organizers of the blockades, and that it had requested a reaction from international institutions.
Students in the blockade have been protesting for months, demanding responsibility for the collapse of the concrete canopy of the Novi Sad Railway Station on November 1st last year, which killed 16 people.
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