Dragan Bujošević was one vote away from victory and no one voted for Olivera Jovićević

Serbian Radio and Television did not get a new director. The Board of Directors of the Public Media Service did not make a decision on the election of the Director General after more than five hours of discussion, because none of the candidates obtained the required majority of votes. For that reason, as stated in the RTS statement, the Board of Directors has announced a new competition for the appointment of the Director General, and the current Acting Director General Dragan Bujošević will serve until the end of the newly announced competition.

This contest, announced on August 21, received 12 applications, and five candidates were shortlisted, four of them from home: Acting Director General Dragan Bujosevic, author of the program “Questionnaire” Olivera Jovicevic, writer and former REM member Milos Rajkovic, famous presenter of “Belgrade Chronicle” and “Morning Program” Vladimir Palikuća and General Secretary of RTS Stanislav Veljković. Bujošević received five votes and Veljković two, and as we discovered, the leader Olivera Jovićević and other candidates were left without the support of any vote from the members of the Board of Directors.

This is, by the way, the second contest for the director of the RTS Public Media Institution, announced this year, as Dragan Bujošević’s five-year term expired on May 5. Before that, according to the law, he acquired the status of retirement. Meanwhile, the Board of Directors extended the interim term of the first man of national television several times. Even in the previous competition, which ended in August, none of the candidates obtained a two-thirds majority of the members of the Board of Directors.

Who are the members of the Board of Directors

Nine people elect a director

The mandate of the RTS Board of Directors expires next year and is established by the Council of the Electronic Media Regulatory Body. However, a new contest and the director’s choice will remain there. The president is Professor Dr. Vladimir Vuletic, his deputy Miroslav Minja Nikolic, lawyer, and the members are Zorica Shujica, academic painter, Branko Radun, graduate historian, Simona Mitrovic Dunjic, graduate pedagogue, Ljiljana Djurdjevac, graduate political scientist, and journalists Zoran Panovic and Nenad Jankovic.

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