Vucevic: News on More Resignations over Novi Sad Accident Possible by Week’s End

Milos Vucevic (BETAPHOTO/Milos Miskov)

Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic stated on Nov. 13 that news on the matter of resignations of government officials, over the death of 14 people in the collapse of a concrete canopy at the refurbished Railway Station in Novi Sad on Nov. 1, could be announced by the end of this week.

Vucevic told reporters in Cajetina that this was not a race against time just to fulfill the norm, but that the time frame would certainly be short. „All decisions are being made in a cool-headed manner and cannot be carried by emotions, which are certainly present among all the citizens of Serbia, undoubtedly, regarding the tragedy that struck us in Novi Sad on the 1st of November,” the prime minister stated.

He added that he believed the decisions that will be made in the forthcoming period would not envisage a technical and administrative “getting the job done” but “true and fundamental decisions on the issue of objective political responsibility.” The only official to have resigned since the Nov. 1 tragedy in Novi Sad, in which 14 people were killed and three suffered life-threatening injuries and are still in critical condition,  was the minister for construction, transportation and infrastructure, Goran Vesic, who did so a few days later.