Ex Fellow Party Member Accuses Marinika Tepic of Lobbying for Progressives

Dejan Bulatovic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)

The former vice president of the Freedom and Justice Party, Dejan Bulatovic, on Dec 27 accused Marinika Tepic, an official of the same party, of being a lobbyist for the Serbian Progressive Party, stressing she was the reason he had left the party.  

Speaking at a news conference in Belgrade, Bulatovic said he would stay in the Serbian parliament as an independent MP and announced launch of “a political initiative” and his readiness to cooperate with, what he called, true opposition parties.  

Bulatovic also said that while he was a member of the Freedom and Justice Party, Tepic had been trying to contest everything he had been striving for, adding they had had “disagreements for several years.” He also stressed that Tepic wished to destroy the party and that she “has daily contacts with the Progressives.”  

Party leader Dragan Djilas has dismissed Bulatovic’s allegations about Tepic, branding them as “ultimate nonsense.” Djilas also said that Bulatovic’s attacks on Tepic were “identical to those under which Tepic has been from the Progressives,” according to a release from the Freedom and Justice Party.  

“Those are falsehoods, which, aside from the Progressives, were published by tabloids and TV Pink and over which lawsuits have been filed,” Djilas said in the statement, which, as stated in the release, was backed by some party top officials.