Justice Minister: Parliament Has Right to Question Prosecutor General’s Responsibility

Nenad Vujic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIĆ)

Serbian Justice Minister Nenad Vujic said on Dec. 8 that the National Assembly of Serbia has the right to question the responsibility of Prosecutor General Zagorka Dolovac and anyone she has appointed.

“The Parliament chose [Dolovac] and has the right to reevaluate its choice, to seek certain information and raise the question of responsibility, even the removal of those she has appointed. All of this is within the Parliament’s purview,” Vujic told Pink TV.

According to the minister, the National Assembly is entitled to consider “whether the network of [Serbia’s] courts and prosecutor’s offices is functional, since it hasn’t achieved particular results, which is why we’ve been hearing about integration within the system of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime – which are all things the Parliament can and should do.”

“Seventy percent of the European Union has the integrated model,” Vujic explained, adding that this entails special departments usually operating under Higher Prosecutor’s Offices.

Vujic went on to say that Dolovac was obligated to appear at a recent meeting of the Parliament’s Committee for the Judiciary when a report on the operation of the prosecutor’s office was to be presented yet she did not attend, despite the fact that she was supposed to present the report herself.

The minister concluded by stressing that Dolovac also failed to notify the cabinet on the agreements she recently made at the Eurojust headquarters in the Hague, regarding cooperation with the prosecutor’s offices of six countries in Central and South America.