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On 25 June 2026, at its 30th session, the National Assembly's Committee for Culture and Information adopted a decision to suspend the procedure for nominating a candidate for the ninth member of the Council of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM) - the seat filled on the proposal of the national councils of national minorities. The decision withdraws from parliamentary procedure the report containing the list of two candidates that the Committee itself had established after launching a repeat procedure on 13 November 2025 and issuing a public call for nominations.
Committee chair Nevena Đurić (SNS) said there were "justified reasons" to wait for the ninth member to be elected until new minority councils are constituted, since regular elections for those councils are expected in late August 2026. She maintained that the selection process had been "never more transparent, never more inclusive" and that completing it was "in everyone's interest."
The ninth seat has been the flashpoint of the entire REM dispute. In November 2025, parliament elected eight of the nine Council members but deliberately left the minority-nominated seat empty, after Deputy Speaker Elvira Kovač called on MPs not to vote for either minority candidate - regardless of whether they met the legal requirements. The nomination process had itself been contested: at one October meeting, nine minority councils that were not authorised nominators were allowed to vote alongside the three authorised ones, before the Committee reversed course and counted only the authorised votes. It was over this handling of the minority seat that four Council members - Rodoljub Šabić, Ira Prodanov Krajišnik, Mileva Malešić and Dubravka Valić Nedeljković - resigned on 19 December 2025,
In a separate conclusion proposed by Committee member Ivana Rokvić, the Committee stated there are no legal obstacles to the four members who resigned submitting statements that they accept membership and resume their functions, since the Assembly never verified their resignations, and called on them to do so. It also called on the REM Council, once constituted, to withdraw the Statute currently in parliamentary procedure and draft a new one.
Committee chair Nevena Đurić (SNS) said there were "justified reasons" to wait for the ninth member to be elected until new minority councils are constituted, since regular elections for those councils are expected in late August 2026. She maintained that the selection process had been "never more transparent, never more inclusive" and that completing it was "in everyone's interest."
The ninth seat has been the flashpoint of the entire REM dispute. In November 2025, parliament elected eight of the nine Council members but deliberately left the minority-nominated seat empty, after Deputy Speaker Elvira Kovač called on MPs not to vote for either minority candidate - regardless of whether they met the legal requirements. The nomination process had itself been contested: at one October meeting, nine minority councils that were not authorised nominators were allowed to vote alongside the three authorised ones, before the Committee reversed course and counted only the authorised votes. It was over this handling of the minority seat that four Council members - Rodoljub Šabić, Ira Prodanov Krajišnik, Mileva Malešić and Dubravka Valić Nedeljković - resigned on 19 December 2025,
It was over this handling of the minority seat that four Council members - Rodoljub Šabić, Ira Prodanov Krajišnik, Mileva Malešić and Dubravka Valić Nedeljković - resigned on 19 December 2025
citing the continued violation of the law and the exclusion of a legally eligible candidate on political grounds. Their departure left REM with only four members, all considered close to the authorities, and below the quorum the regulator needs to function. CRTA documented this sequence in an earlier update.In a separate conclusion proposed by Committee member Ivana Rokvić, the Committee stated there are no legal obstacles to the four members who resigned submitting statements that they accept membership and resume their functions, since the Assembly never verified their resignations, and called on them to do so. It also called on the REM Council, once constituted, to withdraw the Statute currently in parliamentary procedure and draft a new one.
