Gojkovic: Law on 40 Percent of Women on Tickets Will Go Down in History

Maja Gojkoivc (Beta/Dragan Gojic)

Serbian Speaker Maja Gojkovic said on Feb. 10 that a law stipulating that all tickets and institutions where decisions are being made should include 40 percent of women will go down in history.

Speaking for Pink TV, Gojkovic pointed out that “once in the future, when the rights of women are discussed,” the law that was passed on Feb. 6 will go down in history and that by adopting it, the parliament “has made an exceptionally big step forward.”

According to her, it is important to pass major laws regardless of whether they are proposed by MPs from the ruling coalition or the opposition, adding that the result of such approach is a dialogue in the legislative body.

Commenting on European Parliament representative Tanja Fajon’s statement expressing doubts concerning the lowering of the threshold for representation in parliament, Gojkovic said that the increasing of the threshold could arouse suspicions, but that there is nothing disputable in its lowering.

“We did a good job in the three rounds of dialogue in which non-parliamentary parties also took part; we made progress that prior to 2012 we could not have even imagined,” the speaker said.