Sectarians and others: Danica Grujičić called for the splitting of SNS

The former Minister of Health, Danica Grujicic, called on some members of the ruling coalition to separate from the "sectarian part of the SNS" and establish their own parliamentary group, which, she says, will help end the crisis in Serbia.

In a video message on the X network, Grujicic addressed several "acquaintances and friends" from the list she once led, prompted by the parliamentary debate on the lex specialis related to the General Staff case.

"You don't have apartments, cars, gold reserves and foreign accounts"

"This time I am addressing Dragana, Radovan, Nada, Biljana, Igor, Ivan, Veroljub, Anna, Milimir, Zika, Mladen, Dejan, Tijana, Olivera, Vesna, Lepomir, Sonja, Stanislava, Jadranka, Branislav, Aleksander, Jovan, Miroslav, Nikola, Darko, Miodrag, Dusan, Svetlana, Boban, Natasha, Miljana, Sanja, Lidia, Anita, Dragan, Milica, Tatjana, Jasmina, Željka, Nenad, Sanela and Andreja," she said.

Grujicic then stated that she was convinced that none of them would independently raise their hand to the lex specialis, which, according to her, "is at this moment a symbol of our resistance to the greatest powers of this world."

"Know that you have been deceived just like me. Read the Ohrid Agreement and remember what was done in the last year in Kosovo and Metohija. Please do not be complicit in high treason," Grujicic emphasized.

He says that they live "the life of their fellow citizens", unlike those who have "ten apartments, five cars, gold stocks and accounts abroad".

"That is why I am asking you to separate yourself from the sectarian part of the SNS, to form your parliamentary group, and in this way, by showing that you have a face and a backbone, enable the one-year crisis to end with the only peaceful way, new elections," she said.

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As reported by FoNet, Grujicic did not receive an answer from the deputies whom she called by name.

"Let them think," Grujicic told FoNet and added that she hopes that the elections will be announced soon.

"I believe that this is the only way to avoid tragedy and end the crisis peacefully," she said.

Grujicic adds that students are the future of Serbia and that their demands are absolutely justified.

"Enough of mocking the law and justice. So calm down, new elections," said Grujicic.

How Grujicic turned the tables

Danica Grujicic's statement that SNS MPs were "deceived just like her" somewhat sums up her media appearance in recent months.

Although in the parliamentary elections of 2022 she was the holder of the electoral list "For our children", Grujičić became extremely critical of her former political colleagues after the end of her mandate, and especially with the beginning of student protests.

The convocation of the parliament from the same year and in 2022 assigned Grujicic the position of Minister of Health in the Government of Serbia, where she spent more than a year and a half. After the end of her mandate, Grujičić said that incompetent people sit in the government, who often do not even "know what they are voting on".

"I had to help"

"Knowing myself, I had to and wanted to help. And the situation is worrisome. Of the 300 or so people working in the Ministry of Health, I would personally leave five. There is a serious shortage and the employees are people who have no idea about anything, who last entered the health system 20 or 30 years ago and who have nothing to do with the progress of modern medicine," said Grujicic for "Podkast TV".

The public, however, did not accept her change of attitude with approval, judging it as an "attempt to wash their hands" of the ruling regime of which she was a part.

Danica Grujicic's political career began much earlier, when she joined the Democratic Party in 2004, where she stayed until 2011. In the 2012 presidential elections, Grujicic won 0.82 percent of the vote as a candidate of the Social Democratic Alliance.