Ecological Uprising Submits Proposal for Banning Ruling Party to Constitutional Court

Serbian Constitutional Court (Beta/Ana Slovic)

The Ecological Uprising movement announced on Jan. 30 that it had submitted a proposal for banning the ruling Serbian Progressive Party for violating human rights, inciting racial, national and religious hatred and violently overturning the constitutional order.

"The Ecological Uprising has submitted a proposal to the Constitutional Court for banning the Serbian Progressive Party for violating guaranteed human rights, provoking racial, national and religious hatred, as well as violently overturning the constitutional order by creating a paramilitary formation of thugs, whose actions were confirmed by former Prime Minister Milos Vucevic," the party said in a statement. The movement is asking that the Constitutional Court ban the Serbian Progressive Party and delete it from the Register of Political Parties.

According to the Law on Political Parties, the proposal says no party "can act toward violently overturning the constitutional order, violating the territorial whole of the Republic of Serbia, violating guaranteed human or minority rights or causing and inciting racial, national and religious hatred."

The Ecological Uprising said that the events that ensued after the collapse of an overhang at the Novi Sad Railway Station had led "to prominent members of the Serbian Progressive Party and the party's bodies systematically and routinely acting so as to above all violate guaranteed human and minority rights and cause and incite national intolerance above all, for which there is now ample evidence based on which the Constitutional Court needs to ban the Serbian Progressive Party by applying the relevant regulations."