Sapic: Judicial Independence Only If People Chose Judges and Prosecutors

Aleksandar Sapic ((BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC/MO)

Serbian Patriotic Alliance leader Aleksandar Sapic believes that the judicial and prosecution systems may only be independent if judges and prosecutors were chosen in elections, since thus “the people would serve as the judicial system’s corrective and control factor.”

In a pre-election interview for BETA on June 15, Sapic said that if someone is an expert on law, based on which he became a judge or a prosecutor, “that does not mean that he is an honest person and immune to corruption,” adding that honesty and probity are key factors in judiciary.

Speaking about how his party would eliminate corruption from the public sector, Sapic said that, first of all, one has to have people ready for that. “Everywhere, corruption is eliminated by making penal policies harsher and by introducing zero tolerance for corruption.”

When asked about how the Victory for Serbia group, whose ticket he is heading, would resolve the issue of party favoritism in employment, he responded that this problem will never be resolved “by talking about it from elections to elections,” after which everyone continues doing what they had been doing before.

Commenting on the decision of a part of the opposition to boycott the elections scheduled for June 21, he said that the current election conditions are no worse than what they had been two and a half years ago, adding that regardless of that “many participated in these polls.”