Announcements that Dejan Vuk Stankovic and Nenad Vujić to be the new ministers of education and justice act as if the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, is making a "war" through the new mandate Đur Macut vladu whose goal is primarily to deal with recalcitrant universities and high schools, that is, public prosecutors and judges.
Stanković is a harsh critic of Vučić's dissidents
Dejan Vuk Stanković graduated, master's and doctorate in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
He has been working at the Faculty of Teachers since 2003, where he is a professor in the Philosophy with Ethics course and a teacher in the courses Media Education, Philosophy of Education and Education, and Introduction to Democracy and Civic Education.
He participated in numerous projects of the Institute of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, the Ministry of Science, the Belgrade Open School, the New School for Social Research from New York, the University of Public Policy and Security from Hungary and others.
In his biography, it is also noted that since 2023 he has been a permanent columnist for the tabloid "Kurir", and he also publishes his views and opinions in the newspaper "Politika".
As a political analyst, he often appears in the media, most often those close to the current government, where he does not choose words for Vučić's dissenters.
At the end of 2024, he submitted his candidacy to become a member of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM).
The only one against student blockades
Dejan Vuk Stanković is the only professor of the Faculty of Teacher Education who, at the beginning of the student blockade of this faculty, spoke out against the students in the blockade, at the meeting of the Dean's College and heads of departments.
Two months ago, Stanković assessed that the blockages in connection with the fourth student request went "in the direction of political requests that have little to do with improving the position of students and universities in the process of studying and teaching."
"I think the game here is much broader, that there is a political stake here and that meeting these demands does not necessarily mean the end of the blockades. There are three more demands, no one knows why there is a wall of silence regarding their fulfillment, while it is obvious that some of those demands have almost certainly been fulfilled," said Dejan Vuk Stanković at the time.
He then pointed out that this shows that all these demands "actually add up to one demand, which is to change the legitimate and legally elected government".
Stanković assessed that this demand was "camouflaged through the student rebellion and four student demands".
"As you can see, the process concerning the canopy, i.e. the direct responsibility for its fall, continues and there are also parallel processes carried out by the prosecutor's office, which concern corrupt actions. There is an absolute commitment of the state to do this, and on the other hand there is a wall of silence that shows that things are not clean," Stanković added.
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Vujić at the head of the Judicial Academy since 2010
Nenad Vujić graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, where he also passed the bar exam.
Since January 2010, he has been the director of the Judicial Academy, and since 2013 he has been a member, and since December 29, 2017, the president of the Commission for the Implementation of the National Strategy for Judicial Reform.
He is a specialist in human and minority rights, the rights of refugees and displaced persons, as well as the rights of trade unions.
On the website of the Judicial Academy, it is stated that Vujić was the director of the Judicial Center for Training and Professional Development from September 2005 to December 2009.
From January 2004 to September 2005, he was the human rights coordinator at the Judicial Center for Training and Professional Development. As part of that, he was also a member of the working group for harmonizing the laws of the Community of Serbia and Montenegro with the laws of the European Union.
From April 2000 to the end of 2003, he held several different positions in the Norwegian Refugee Center in Kraljevo and Niš.
From October 1999 to April 2000, Vujić worked as a legal advisor at the Humanitarian Law Fund. Provided legal assistance to refugees, displaced persons, as well as led the investigation and reporting on the disappearance of Serbs and kidnapped people. He was also in charge of controlling the rights of ethnic minorities.
Criminal report to the DRI
After conducting audits of the financial reports and operations of the Judicial Academy for 2020 and 2021, the State Audit Institution (DRI) determined irregularities at the Judicial Academy and ordered the Academy to correct them.
Vujić was charged with the fact that the Judicial Academy paid salaries to the beneficiaries of the initial training even after they had completed the training, and their employment was additionally extended for a certain period of time several times for six months.
Since no corrections were made, SAI submitted a request for Vujić's dismissal to the Administrative Board of the Judicial Academy. The SAI also submitted a criminal complaint against Vujić to the High Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade.
The Board of Directors of the Judicial Academy unanimously concluded that the conditions for Vujuć's dismissal were not met. The higher prosecutor's office in Belgrade rejected the criminal complaint with the assessment that it was unfounded.
