By: Andrej Žitnik (Nova24tv.si)
The new programme council members of RTV Slovenia, appointed by Golob’s so-called “civil society” based on a controversial unconstitutional law on RTV, have become a true Slovenian “meme” from the very first session onwards. As if they were pub philosophers, they gathered at Kolodvorska Street 2-4 and gave the impression that they did not even know what they were doing there, except for their task of quickly decapitating the current leadership, which does not please the ruling politics. From one session to another, we witness a tragic comedy of confusion that seems to have no end.
At this moment, they amateurishly tackle the basic task for which the deep state also placed them there: the removal of the current leadership of RTV Slovenia before it manages to sweep away the Sodom and Gomorrah that has taken hold there. The council members have voted for the recall of the acting general director of RTV, Andrej Grah Whatmough, due to allegedly questionable contracts he made with editor Rajko Gerič.
All well and good – but such serious accusations must be supported by solid evidence before the council members can be convinced that the alleged violation is well-proven and severe enough to warrant a drastic measure such as the removal of the acting director of RTV.
But no! Apparently, they do not have any evidence at all. After the vote, they actually demanded the controversial contracts that Grah had made with Gerič to see if they might be genuinely problematic.
The satisfaction for Grah’s “legal mistake” will be paid by taxpayers
It seems, therefore, that the council members want to first invent a reason for the removal of the general director and then confirm the invention through a later creative interpretation of contractual and labour legislation (which is probably already being written by the Legal Network). However, this interpretation will undoubtedly fail in court, and Grah will be heavily financially compensated as the former director of RTV and current President of the Republic, Nataša Pirc Musar, received 70,000 euros of taxpayer money. Of course, it will be the taxpayers, not the programme council members of RTV Slovenia, who will pay for Grah’s satisfaction.
The programme council of the “civil society”
Let’s remember that the president of the programme council is Goran Forbici, formerly the head of the Centre for Non-Governmental Organisations. His deputy is a representative of the ideologically one-sided Slovenian Journalists’ Association, Špela Stare. Since the council was formed, it has been operating like the parliament of North Korea – they are unanimously aligned on everything, which is logical since they represent a single political option. One of the programme council members, an extreme leftist and philosopher Tadej Troha, even threatened respected professor Miro Haček from the Faculty of Social Sciences (FDV) for daring to criticise the new programme council, saying, “Haček is not doing himself any favours for his reputation lately.” We know what such remarks meant in the previous regime and also in Golob’s regime, which resembles the Russian one.
The current deputy acting general director, Uroš Urbanija, has warned on Twitter that it is “a nicely crafted threat from the new council member” and that during the first session of the new council, “President Forbici stated that they would act legally if they could. Apparently, the pressures are too great to act legally… but everything is unanimous.”