The Committee for Culture and Information has not yet initiated the procedure of selection of the new Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection and has not received any proposals for the selection of the Commissioner, was stated in the response issued by the National Assembly upon request submitted by YUCOM.
Several organisations have sent today a request to the competent Committee for Culture and Information urging them to respond whether the procedure of selection of the new Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection was initiated and who the potential candidates are. They also insisted that the candidates’ biographies be publicly published.
Civil society organisations devoted to realisation of the rule of law, democracy and civil rights urged yet again the competent Committee for Culture and Information of the Assembly to initiate as soon as possible the procedure of selection of the new Commissioner and publicly proposed well-defined criteria for selection of candidates.
The quality of the election process in Lucani was very poor, while the atmosphere on the election day was not in accordance with standards for free and fair elections due to identified cases of pressure on voters, the CRTA election observation mission assessed.
A total of 11.156 citizens (67.7 percent) registered in the voters list voted in local elections in Lucani by 7pm, the CRTA election observation mission stated.
A total of 8.702 citizens (52.8 percent) registered in the voters list voted in local elections in Lucani by 4pm, the CRTA election observation mission stated.
A total of 5.784 citizens (35 percent) registered in the voters list voted in local elections in Lucani by 1pm, the CRTA election observation mission stated.
The polling stations in Lucani were opened for voting in local elections and voting proceeds mainly in accordance with established procedures, the CRTA election observation mission stated. A total of 16.483 voters is registered to vote in local elections in Lucani, while eight electoral lists compete in the elections.
Parliamentary Insider for December 2018 brings monthly analyses of the work of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, including law summaries and key novelties introduced by the adopted laws, that are, for the first time, accessible in English. December is the month in which parliamentary statistics hit its peaks – with the largest amounts of merged items (62) at the parliamentary agenda for the entire 11th convocation – but the Open Parliament has also recorded a significant increase of the number of crucial pieces – new laws and amendments to laws – adopted by urgent procedure. Parliamentary year may have come to an end, but the new year may bring further decline in the quality of parliamentarism if the recorded practice continues.
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