Jelena Pavlovic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN ILIC)
Jelena Pavlovic, an attorney and member of the Serbian parliament, said on Aug. 13 that the purpose of the concrete barriers placed in front of the parliament building was to keep the area under constant siege and show that the state did not belong to all citizens, but only to Serbian Progressive Party loyalists.
Asked by BETA why Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was having concrete barriers placed in downtown Belgrade, Pavlovic said that the first question to ask in a functioning state of law would be who were the persons who had for months been physically obstructing access to the National Assembly, the Presidency and Pionirski Park -- the area now popularly dubbed "Cacilend" -- and why and on whose orders they were doing so.
"In our community, which is neither functioning, nor lawful and is no longer even a state, such questions are no longer asked, because everyone knows that all orders come from one place -- the president of the Republic of Serbia, who lacks the courage to call an extraordinary parliamentary election and so end the ten-month social and political crisis," said Pavlovic, an independent MP.
Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic did not respond when asked by BETA's reporter about the purpose of the concrete barriers at Nikola Pasic square. Dacic also did not answer when asked on whose orders the concrete barriers were placed there on Aug. 12 and whether the Interior Ministry had signed off on it.
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