In a note sent to the government, the parliament and its Committee on Information, Computerisation and Media and to Hina, the three members of Hina's Governing Council said that their decision was motivated by their disagreement with the government's treatment of the Council, which they said had been faced with a dead-end situation in which the appointment of the fifth Council member representing the agency's employees was being procrastinated, while the legal deadline for the appointment of the new agency director was running out.
The Council members who tendered their resignation consider the situation politicised and detrimental to the normal functioning of the agency.
"We do not want to be subject to political squabbles and an instrument for scoring cheap political points, our resignations mean that we do not want parliamentary deputies to waste time on additional debates and we want to make it easier for the government to appoint a more desirable council and candidates," reads a statement signed by Council members Bozo Skoko, Dijana Katica and Drazen Jovic.
They added in the statement that they respected legal procedures in their work and did not accept any compromises violating the law.
To back their claims about professionalism and responsible performance of duties, they cited numerous decisions adopted in the past three months that enabled the normal functioning of the agency.
"In recent months we have been exposed to unfounded attacks from part of the Opposition, and more recently from the Government, which is proof that there is obviously still no room for facts, autonomy and professionalism in our highly politicised society," the Council members said.