Piše: Nova24TV.si
While the chairwoman of RTV Slovenia’s management board, Natalija Gorščak, presents to the public and employees a dramatic picture in which the public broadcaster is heading toward illiquidity due to a “normative stranglehold” and unpaid budget funds, the chairman of the RTV Council, Goran Forbici, tells employees that “anyone can resign at any time”.
Retired journalist Vinko Vasle reacted sharply to such conduct, writing on X that Gorščak and Forbici have turned the public broadcaster into a “brothel of incompetence, corruption, and depoliticized lackeys”. He added that employees should “take the leadership out onto the pavement, ban Forbici from entering, and expel the ringleaders of depoliticization from the building”. According to him, “RTV Slovenia needs a self‑revolution and self‑cleansing”.
At the workers’ assembly on 17 June, Gorščak admitted that RTV needs a liquidity loan of as much as 19 million euros to avoid delays in salary payments, while also mentioning the possibility of sending employees on temporary layoff, MMC RTV reported. The chairman of the Council, Forbici, assessed the situation completely differently: according to him, “this institution has never been in a better position in the last decade”, and he openly advised employees to resign if they cannot handle the situation, Info360 reports.
Such conduct by the management and the council has greatly angered part of the public and former journalists. Vasle further warned employees “not to believe Gorščak’s reassurances that Janez Janša will secure money for salaries”, stressing that by September there will be no money left at all. He also called on the government and the Ministry of Culture not to provide RTV with “a single cent”, since the money would not go toward programming but toward salaries and additional rewards for the “depoliticised rabble”. He also pointed out that the projected advertising revenue is falling below 50 percent.
Critics note that Gorščak has repeatedly refused to sign the contract for legally guaranteed budget funds (for minority programming and music production), which further worsened liquidity. Instead of accepting the money offered by the state, they chose to request a 19‑million‑euro loan.
Forbici, who is not employed at RTV and simultaneously heads the Centre for Information, Cooperation and Development of NGOs (CNVOS), which received nearly two million euros during the previous government, tells employees not to concern themselves with salaries, as this weakens public support. At the same time, he claims the situation is excellent.
In his commentary, Vinko Vasle added: “It is up to us to help bring this brothel’s agony to an end – do not pay the contribution, or at least delay it significantly and wait for reminders. I also hope that the government and the ministry do not give this brothel a single cent or any loan. They have no way to repay it.”
While liquidity problems, internal conflicts, and accusations of clientelism in awarding bonuses continue to pile up at RTV Slovenia, issues publicly highlighted also by host Jelena Aščić, who described the situation as “the cesspit of RTV SLO”. The management and the council of the institution clearly seem unable to offer clear and responsible solutions. Instead, they present employees with two options: either temporary layoff or resignation.
