High Prosecution Council does not have the courage to condemn the statements of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, with which the Prosecutor's Office is pressing, say the interlocutors of the new "The Times" which is on newsstands from Thursday. There is too much opportunism in the game.
Namely, since last week, it is "official" - the "Informer", MPs Dragan Đilas and Vladimir Đukanović, protesters who blocked the buildings of judicial institutions in Novi Sad, but not Vučić, exert undue influence on the prosecutors in Serbia.
This was determined at the extraordinary session of the High Prosecutor's Council held more than half a year after the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad.
Weaver as a connoisseur
At that session, the recording of which is available on the Internet, things went relatively smoothly until the Serbian president made statements that he would "personally prosecute the prosecutors" who are disturbed by the tractors around Pionirski Park and that all prosecutors who "do not protect order and law" would be dismissed.
Despite heated debate, there was no vote on it. Thus, the commissioner for independence, Milan Tkalac, estimated that the head of state "did not exert undue influence on the prosecutors" in that way.
The president of the Association of Prosecutors of Serbia, Lidija Komlen Nikolić, opposed this.
"In our opinion, the announcement is too mild, and the avoidance of the Commissioner for Independence, Milan Tkalac, to explicitly state his position when it comes to the statements of the President of the Republic is professionally unacceptable," she says for "Vreme".
Opportunists in the prosecution
A well-informed source says that the prosecutors are under the influence of Nenad Stefanović, the chief public prosecutor of the Higher Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, who is rumored to be a man of the regime.
"Most judges and prosecutors still look at things opportunistically and turn like sunflowers to the source of power. They are not ready to come forward with their first and last names," says our source.
"Knowing how some who publicly rebelled before have suffered, people choose the line of least resistance. But that does not mean that they do not share the views of the united critical minority. The fight for the rule of law and the rule of law in this country has been going on for a long time," says this interlocutor.
It was Vučić's statement that prosecutors who do not protect law and order will be replaced that raised the most dust. Because of this statement, more than 500 judges and prosecutors signed a protest statement.
But it seems that some of their colleagues were sitting on their ears at the time.
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