Vučić criticized Tadić in 2009: the president has no place to speak at the patriarch’s funeral

The Serbian Foreign Minister confirmed today that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić will also speak at the funeral of Patriarch Irinej. In the video on its Twitter account, the Freedom and Justice Party recalled Vučić’s words and criticisms in 2009, on the occasion of former President Boris Tadić’s speech at the funeral of Patriarch Pavle, delivered at the State of the Nation show in B92. Vučić later said that the president had no place to speak at the patriarch’s funeral.

Foreign Minister Nikola Selaković stated today on TV Pink that, according to the protocol published by the Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Chrysostom, the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, the Serbian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, and Belgrade elder Father Petar Lukić will speak at Patriarch Irinej’s funeral. Cathedrals, broadcast Flash.

However, the president of the SNS once criticized the speech of former president Tadic at the funeral of Patriarch Pavle: “There was no place for Boris Tadic to ask for a live broadcast, so he participates in the extraction of the coffin, the Serbian bishops They do. He had no place in the Synod session. There was no place for him to speak after the Ecumenical Patriarch, “Aleksandar Vučić said in 2009, the day after the funeral, on the program. The state of the nation in B92, where he was invited with then-DS officer Jelena Trivan. Trivan then said that it was the church’s wish, that Tadic was invited, and that she would have been personally defeated if the president of Serbia, whoever he was, had not been there.

He was supposed to be there, I don’t deny it, that was his obligation, but not to give a speech, just as he did not have a place to give a speech at the Synod, Vučić said on the program, criticizing what happened then, as he said , RTS turned on the cameras at the time of Tadic’s address, interrupting the match.

Let us remind you that the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Pavle, passed away on November 15, 2009.