ULOGA MEDIJA U OSTVARIVANjU PREDSTAVNIČKE FUNKCIJE NARODNE SKUPŠTINE REPUBLIKE SRBIJE

Abstract

With the emergence and development of new information and communications technologies, true, timely and complete information, as well as one’s guaranteed right to it, becomes an extremely powerful means. Also, the inevitable and omnipresent globalization process implies a picture of the world as a joint space in which the technological, political, economic and ecological threads of interdependence are woven at great speed, thereby negating geographical distances and making the democratic form of government universal. Today, media are the keepers of democratic legal and political systems of modern countries. They represent the main communications channel between the National Assembly and the citizens and the most significant means of informing the citizens about public affairs. In order for the citizens to freely elect their representatives and take part in the making of the most important decisions and the creation of policies, it is necessary that they have freedom of expression and that true, timely and complete information is made available to them, which includes information about the representative candidates, the elections procedure, the elections results, as well as the actions of their representatives during their term in office.