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Miodrag Majic, a judge of the Serbian Appellate Court, said on Nov. 14 that the Serbian judiciary was merely surviving in an atmosphere of fear, and that this made it impossible for the judiciary to exercise its basic function in a democracy.
In an interview with the BETA news agency, Majic said that the situation in the judiciary was very bad, and that, given the circumstances, he didn't see how it could improve.
When asked if he was under the impression that more and more of his peers were giving in to pressure and incitements while adjudicating, the judge said that when pressures lasted too long, people yielding to them was a natural reaction.
"If you create such an atmosphere in a society that everyone knows that all the power comes from a single center, and that it is where all the decisions are made, it becomes universally accepted, and more and more people adjust their decisions to this pattern," Majic said, saying that he would not run in Serbia's next presidential elections despite being seen as "a good potential nominee."
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