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Vida Petrovic Skero: Government to Allow for Organized Crime to Grow

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Archive / News | 26.10.20 | access_time 16:06

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The president of the Judicial Research Center and a former Supreme Court justice, Vida Petrovic-Skero, said to BETA on Oct. 26 that what Serbia's new cabinet had inherited from the previous one were viable threats to the independence of prosecutors and the executive branch of power "deeply involved" in the work of the judiciary, taking over the prerogatives of prosecution offices.

"The separation of powers is increasingly blurry, and a message by a state secretary that judicial officials should be appointed by the president of the state has creeped into the new cabinet's mandate, which is absurd," Petrovic-Skero is warning.

When asked by a BETA journalist if she expected a more efficient fight against crime and corruption, the former judge said her impression was that organized crime would flourish instead. "I am under the impression that a lack of vision as to how to regulate human rights and freedoms will lead to a lack of the rule of law and democracy, and, as a result, to the expansion of organized crime. I don't think we'll be safe at cafes, malls, parks...Corruption is now part of our healthcare, education, daily lives," Petrovic-Skero was explicit.

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