PM Brnabic and Interior Minister Gasic in Assembly, demand to sack him debated

Serbian National Assembly; Photo: Tanjug/Jadranka Ilic

Deputies of in the Serbian National Assembly started today a debate on the proposal for a vote of no confidence regarding Minister of Interior Affairs Bratislav Gasic. submitted by a group of opposition deputies, and the session is attended by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, as well as Minister Gasic.

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The head of the parliamentary group of the People's Party, Miroslav Aleksic, who officially submitted the proposal, demanded Gasic's responsibility after mass shootings in Serbia, noting that no one is saying anyone is guilty, but responsible.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic asked during the discussion what the personal responsibility of Minister Gasic is supposed to be.

She told the opposition that this session requested by opposition deputies would not have been held at all if the ruling coalition had not first voted in favor of the agenda, and then provided a quorum for it to take place.

"This quorum showed in the best way how much you really care to talk about these things. The request for Gasic's dismissal is one of your basic requests here, as well as during the protestd, so is it possible that for two days you, as the organizers of the protest, cannot gather (in the Assembly) to have a quorum to discuss things," asked Brnabic.

The prime minister stressed that this shows disrespect towards those people who walk and protest every day, but also towards the institutions. Brnabic said that she carefully noted down everything that Aleksic was saying for 38 minutes and that at no point did she hear what exactly Gasic's responsibility was.

"The only thing would be if you think we should arrest everyone as a preventive measure, then there will be no more crime, everyone will be in prison. Citizens will have to wait for you to come to power to have that kind of democracy, free society and the rule of law, so that like in 2009, you can politically replace all judges overnight and appoint your own prosecutors," said Brnabic.

Brnabic added that it is not realistic that demands made during protests against violence should be met in the street, and she also said that the deputies making them should come to work in the Assembly where that should be discussed.

Brnabic said that when there were problems with securing the quorum, neither Radomir Lazovic, Djordje Miketic, Nebojsa Zelenovic, nor Sinisa Kovacevic were present in the Assembly...

After several warnings, Assembly President Vladimir Orlic issued a warning to Aleksandar Jovanovic Cuta, who was heckling the prime minister during her speech.

(Telegraf.rs)