Despite a pledge by parties poised to form a new government in Montenegro not to interfere in the work of the country’s public broadcaster, rows and recrimination at Radio-Television Montenegro, RTCG, are feeding into doubts among analysts.
RTCG finds itself in uncharted waters following the end of three decades of rule by the Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS, unleashing an increasingly public battle over the direction of editorial policy at a broadcaster that for years has largely stuck to the DPS line.
Tensions at the broadcaster erupted this month when the management under RTCG head Bozidar Sundic accused certain members of the nine-person RTCG Council, which oversees management and editorial policy, of trying to steer coverage in the interests of the opposition parties that together won a slim majority in the Montenegrin parliament in an election in late August.
Their new government is expected to be endorsed by parliament next month.
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