Bozo Prelevic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/AV)
Lawyer Bozo Prelevic stated on May 21 that it was unprecedented that a president of a country calls for a blockade of the courts and prosecution and threatens to close universities, as Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has been for the past few days, and warned that Serbia would fare very badly if such a mind stood as its protector.
Prelevic told BETA that the justice minister’s (Nenad Vujic) attack on the prosecutors and judges and Vucic’s announcement of a blockade of the Appellate Court and the Prosecution in Novi Sad displaced our entire reality into a plane that is beyond reason.
In his words, the rule of law is the standard of behavior and governance for every normal president. “However, our president proposes and advocates an attack on judges and prosecutors. Vucic is referring to as ‘heroes’ to the members of his party who broke a young woman’s jaw, causing her grave bodily harm, which is why the Serbian government of Milos Vucevic resigned. A president who is in conflict with the judiciary, the prosecution and the university cannot represent the state and its people,” the lawyer pointed out.
“Vucic will not stop destroying the state institutions because he views them as enemies. He will not stop because he holds a kind of irrational grudge, which he unleashes against any institution he believes had done him wrong. Vucic has set vulgarity as a desired and mandatory standard in relating with the state institutions. He wishes to humiliate and defeat anyone who opposes him,” Prelevic assessed.
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