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Due to a complaint about the possible misuse of personal data when sending letters to pensioners, the collection of data for inspection supervision is in progress. The letter was signed by Aleksandar Vučić
Pensioners, almost one million and seven hundred thousand of them, make up a third of the electorate in Serbia. Perhaps this is also the reason why on November 30, he will receive a one-time state aid of 20.000 dinars, and from January 1, a 14,8 percent increase.
Aleksandar Vučić informed each of them in a letter already in October.
Milan Marinović, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Protection of Personal Data, told "Danas" that "one petition was received indicating possible misuse of the applicant's personal data." The collection of data important for the inspection of the subject of supervision is underway," said Marinović.
According to him, the case was initiated due to the assumption that the Personal Data Protection Act was violated when sending letters to pensioners.
Sending letters to pensioners does not belong to the competence of the President of the Republic, lawyer Slobodan Beljanski, former president of the Anti-Corruption Council and member of the Board of the Anti-Corruption Agency, told "Danas".
"The letter represents a serious legal, moral and logical excess." It was sent in violation of personal data protected by the Constitution and the law, outside the purpose for which the data were collected and without the consent of the persons to whom they refer. "Not only because he addresses individuals by name, uninvited, but above all because of placing an incorrect calculation on the increase of pensions and resorting to political propaganda with elements of corruption," said Beljanski.
According to him, Vučić glorifies the crime against pensioners in an inappropriate, cynical and paradoxical way, and "tries to present them as his accomplices, even though they are victims".
In the letter of Aleksandar Vučić, because he signed his name and surname without a position, there is not even a word about returning the debt, that is, the money that was taken from pensioners from 2014 to 2018 during the fiscal consolidation. Estimates are that during that time, the state took between 840.000 and 700 million euros from 840 pensioners.
At the beginning of November, almost immediately after Aleksandar Vučić's letters were delivered to Serbian pensioners, Zoran Đorđević, a high-ranking SNS official and acting director of the Post of Serbia, said that 1.700.000 million dinars (a little more than 39 euros) were paid to the Post Office for sending about 330.000 letters. and that the Serbian Progressive Party paid for that service.
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