Министерството за култура објави оглас со тридневен рок и услов за економска диплома за "советник за култура"
Levica criticises a summer job ad at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism that asks for an economics degree for a cultural adviser and leaves only three days to apply.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has opened an urgent vacancy for two special advisers in the minister’s cabinet in the middle of the summer season — one "advisor for legal affairs" and one "advisor for culture" — with an application window of only three days. The ministry, which already counts 17 state advisers in its ranks, is now seeking additional cabinet advisers offering a base net salary of 60.000 denars, a party statement said.
Short deadline, long selection time
According to Levica, candidates must submit originals or notarially certified copies within just three days, while the actual selection procedure may take up to 45, 90 or even 120 days. In effect, citizens have only three days to apply, while the Ministry retains up to four months to choose a candidate.
Levica asks why the call was published during the period of summer and collective vacations, when many potential applicants are away from workplaces and institutions, and questions the extremely short application deadline. The party also points out that for the advertised "advisor for culture" the required qualification is not from the cultural field at all but rather "a degree in economics, specifically in the field of international economic relations."
The party raises the suspicion that the advertisement serves form rather than substance: that it is published to legitimise a pre-decided personnel choice rather than to attract the best-qualified professional for cultural policy, museums, theatres, music, contemporary art or publishing. When an institution already has an "army" of 17 state advisers, Levica asks what precisely the new advisers will add and why the existing advisers are insufficient.
Instead of better using the current staff and strengthening professional capacities within institutions, the party argues, authorities continue creating new cabinet posts that raise serious doubt they are intended for partisan placement and rewards of "deserving" personnel. Levica reiterates the call for transparent, fair hiring procedures and for deadlines that allow genuinely interested and qualified candidates to participate.
"State institutions must be in service of the people, not narrow party interests," the party statement concludes, urging that an "advisor for culture" should know culture, rather than be someone with a diploma in economics who holds the title only on paper.
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