The President of the Serbian Parliament, Ana Brnabić, said on Thursday (May 1) that conversation which Prime Minister Đuro Macut leads with the rector University of Belgrade For Vladan Đokić, it is difficult, painful, but he "hopes that in the end some solution will be reached", reports Danas.
"If no way out of this situation is found, the rector and deans will be remembered in history as the people who destroyed higher education institutions, i.e. the University of Belgrade and various faculties," Brnabić told TV Prva.
She emphasized that she has great respect for Macut, stating that "he is a man who was certainly needed at this moment in Serbian politics in any place because he is incredibly calm, a man of dialogue and compromise."
"I believe that these are difficult conversations, at times extremely painful because he has to talk to people who decided to suspend the laws and the Constitution of Serbia because they thought they were above the institutions, for which there is no justification," said Brnabić.
Meetings of the Rector and the Prime Minister
Rector of the University of Belgrade Vladan Đokić and Serbian Prime Minister Đuro Macut have met twice so far, and once the meeting was cancelled.
On Wednesday (April 30) after the meeting between the prime minister and the rector, there were no statements to the media. The rectorate of the University of Belgrade later announced that the rector and the prime minister discussed the situation at universities and faculties and possible ways to overcome the crisis.
One of the participants in Wednesday's meeting, the dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Goran Roglić, told FoNet that he did not want to comment on the discussions and that an official announcement was expected.
When asked by a journalist whether the meeting went well, Roglić, as reported by N1, answered only "relatively" right after leaving the meeting in the Government.
Brnabić on the operation of the police in Novi Sad
Speaking about the recent events in front of the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education in Novi Sad, she said that "the police had to preserve the integrity" of Dean Patrick Dryd.
"They shouldn't have allowed the dean of the state faculty to be prosecuted like a beast, who, at the same time, put this country in a lot of debt because he was a representative in judo, and fought for students throughout his entire career," said Brnabić.
Source: Danas/Vreme