Photo: Tanjug/National Assembly of Serbia/Peđa Vučković
The beginning of the third day of the extraordinary session of the Assembly was marked by the discussion on the Law on Alimony Fund, and mutual accusations were made. There was also talk of a tent settlement in Pionirski Park, better known as Ćaciland
The third day of the extraordinary session National Assembly it started on Thursday (June 12) at ten o'clock. Since the primary ended on Wednesday unified discussion on all 46 points, today it is time to discuss the details.
The discussion started with parliamentary questions. After a one-hour break, the session resumed at 15 p.m.
Who (doesn't) pay alimony?
Member of Parliament of the National Movement of Serbia (NPS) Miroslav Aleksic, regarding the Law on Alimony Fund that he proposed Sinish Mali, asked how much alimony was paid by the Minister of Finance, according to the agreement that was adopted in 2015.
Mali then said that the alimony decision in case of his divorce did not even exist, but that does not mean that he neglected his children in any way.
The president of the parliament reacted quickly, in her manner Ana Brnabic.
"How wretched this is that has been done, deeply wretched and unworthy of a deputy and of this house. And what if you don't have the right information, and what if you mislead again, and what if you spat on a family, nobody cares, I know who you asked, but someone should have had the guts not to shut you out and let you talk. I have the right to tell you how unworthy this is of a deputy and of this house, it's neither the first nor the last time, unfortunately." said Brnabić.
Discussion on the Law on Alimony Fund
The first part of the session was certainly marked by the discussion on the proposed Law on Alimony Fund.
MP of the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP) Goran Petrović said that it is good that the Law on Exercising Rights from the Alimony Fund will help parents and their children to pay alimony regularly, but that it is not good that the government did not solve this burning issue of a very sensitive part of the population in time.
He called on the government to "immediately put on the agenda amendments to the law on social protection, the so-called parent-caregiver law, because the consequences of delaying the resolution of the problems of these parents are incalculable."
Borko Stefanović from SSP added that centers for social work in Serbia have become "bunkers of SNS".
"Why don't you say what everyone in Serbia knows, which is that the centers for social work in Serbia have become SNS bunkers, in which, through lists, you ask people who are in severe social poverty to vote for you, otherwise they will not receive social assistance and social benefits," said Stefanović.
Jelena Jerinić from the ZLF stated that the idea of the Alimony Fund "is not in dispute with anyone" and that it is in the program of this party, but she drew attention to the fact that the amount foreseen for the Alimony Fund is about half a billion dinars, while 56 billion dinars is foreseen for the Expo, and for BIA "16 times more than for the Alimony Fund".
Questions about Cacilend
The members of the opposition did not fail to ask several questions about the tent settlement that has been standing in Pionirski Park for months.
Regarding the information that Miloš Pavlović, a student of the Faculty of Medicine, who presents himself as a leader of students who want to study, was approved to register Pionirski Park as his place of residence, Natalija Stojmenović from the Green-Left Front (ZLF) asked the MUP since when there is a practice of assigning residences in public spaces.
"And if so, I'm interested in how many such cases there are," asked Stojmenović.
Mila Popović from the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP) said that she has not yet received an answer from the Minister of the Interior Ivica Dačić to the question she asked him on May 5, which, she stated, "concerns the mockery that the ruling party posed in front of the House of the National Assembly."
She added that the ruling party "put its criminals, armed thugs, robbers" into Pionirski Park.
"In order to mistreat the citizens, you created a collapse in the city center and in the wider part of Belgrade. Until when? Until Aleksandar Vučić fulfills the demands he set for himself," said Popović and accused the police of turning their heads away from all of this.
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