After the Democratic Party and the Dosta je bilo movement, the leader of the New Party Zoran Živković, the president of the parliamentary group "Nova Serbia - for the salvation of Serbia" Sanda Rašković Ivić and the independent MP Marinika Tepić requested the dismissal of the president of the Serbian Parliament. MPs from the opposition parties also requested the dismissal of all nine members of the REM Council.
Živković announced that he will request that the agenda of the session of the Assembly of Serbia, which continues on Wednesday, April 19, be supplemented with a request for the dismissal of Parliament Speaker Maja Gojković.
He told journalists in the Serbian Parliament that he will seek the dismissal of Maja Gojković because she suspended the work of the parliament for more than a month, while the election campaign for the presidential elections was going on. Živković assessed her decision to suspend the work of the assembly as immoral and unconstitutional.
Independent member of parliament Marinika Tepić said that in the 40 days that the parliament was not working, the opportunity to pass important laws was missed, pointing out that there are 34 proposed laws submitted by the government and about 60 submitted by deputies.
She pointed out that the fact that the parliamentary bodies were working, as she put it, was too weak an alibi, because there were no sessions.
Maja Gojković's replacement is also being sought by the parliamentary group Nova Srbija - for the salvation of Serbia. The president of that parliamentary group, Sanda Rašković Ivić, said at a press conference that Maja Gojković grossly violated democracy in the country by suspending the work of the parliament in the middle of a regular session for 40 days.
She said that the Serbian Progressive Party, if it were in the opposition, would characterize such a thing as a coup d'état.
Rašković Ivić also criticized the fact that the continuation of the session was scheduled for Wednesday, not Tuesday or Thursday, when it is possible to ask questions at the beginning of the work, and assumed that the government wanted to avoid that.
She asked Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić what was his motive for receiving US Senator John McCain, whom she judged to be a NATO hawk, a Serb-hater, a Russo-hater and an Albanian lobbyist.
The replacement of Maja Gojković was initiated yesterday by the Democratic Party and the Enough is Enough movement, and the students who have been protesting for eight days in several cities across Serbia have the same demand.
The dismissal of all nine members of the REM Council is sought
Member of the Democratic Party Vesna Marjanović announced that 23 members of the Serbian Parliament requested the dismissal of all nine members of the Regulatory Council for Electronic Media (REM).
She said at the press conference that the request was signed by members of the DS, New Serbia - Movement to Save Serbia, Social Democratic Party - People's Movement of Serbia and two independent members - Marinika Tepić and Zoran Živković.
She said that REM should be an independent body, but that it has not fulfilled any of its functions, as evidenced by the reactions of citizens at protests, and the professional public who are dissatisfied with the work of REM.
The member of the DS stated that the main goals of REM are to contribute to the preservation, protection and development of freedom of thought and expression, and the protection of public interests in the field of electronic media, and she assessed that REM does not fulfill this.
According to her, the peak was during the past presidential campaign when REM "decided to lock the door and do nothing", and not to react to the violation of regulations on equal representation of candidates in the media, which, in her opinion, directly affected the outcome choice-
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