Opposition Party: Authorities Have Majority to Cancel Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime

Milos Jovanovic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)

New Democratic Party of Serbia president Milos Jovanovic said on Dec. 11 that the ruling majority would probably change the law and cancel the special prosecutor's office for fighting organized crime.

The party quoted Jovanovic as recalling that the Serbian Progressive Party "has a mathematical majority" in parliament to do this adding that Minister of Culture Nikola Selakovic's behavior, who called prosecutors "blockaders," showed that the Progressive Party had lost its bearings and "no longer knows what it is doing."

Speaking on the current geopolitical situation in the world, he said that there were major inconsistencies in the West as to relations with Russia given that on the one hand the West was saying that this country was incapable of gaining anything militarily in the war and on the other, that Russia posed the largest threat to the West and would attack a EU member state after Ukraine.

"The West committed a huge mistake at the beginning when it did not heed Russia's warning that Ukraine was a vital national interest to it," Jovanovic said.