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Things in this country will normalize when citizens realize that it is their right to know how the State disposes of their money, each item of the budget must be known and no one should be ashamed to ask how much something costs and the price of a monument to not a public good. It may be a state secret, the guests of the “Impression of the Week” program pointed out, commenting on the criticism that the government is directing to anyone who dares to ask how much the Stefan Nemanja Monument costs.
When asked what is shameful in the request to know the price of the monument and why the answer was that you are “haters of Stefan Nemanja and that you are against the Serbian people”, the editor-in-chief of NIN Milan Ćulibrk says that , according to him, only the price of the monument is shameful. “And that is why the government is trying to hide it,” he said. Nova.rs.
“The day we really find out how much it cost someone, it will be a great shame,” Ćulibrk said in “Print of the Week.”
He pointed out that today we learned, based on some customs import declarations, that the components of the monument alone cost about nine million eurosBut that is not all and that to this figure we must add the price of the conceptual design, the salaries of the workers here and in Russia and that everything costs money.
“When you add all this up, it is clear that it is going to cost more than 10 million euros and it is understandable that the government is trying to hide it, but I cannot understand citizens who trust a politician who says ‘what a shame to ask’ “. ., Ćulibrk pointed out.
As he says, neither Goran Vesić, nor Aleksandar Vučić, nor (sculptor Aleksandar) Rukavišnjikov made that monument. The monument was paid for by Serbian taxpayers, and how could anyone have thought of declaring it a state secret? He asked.
He recalled that the question about the price of the monument was made by NIN, a group of professors from the Faculty of Philosophy, Dejan Atanackovic separately to the City Assembly, and they all received the same answer that had nothing to do with them, that Vesic was only in charge of erecting it. He won’t mind paying you. “
“Now we don’t know who paid it, whether it was paid from the budget of the republic or whether it will be charged to Belgrade’s account on the water,” Ćulibrk said.
Atanackovic: a monument in honor of the regime and the leader
Source: Ivan Dinić / Nova S
Visual artist and writer Dejan Atanackovic said he received a decision from the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance, ordering the mayor to tell him everything he knew about the monument’s construction within five days.
He did not even receive information from the city authorities that it was an official secret.
“I don’t think they have any legal basis for declaring a monument erected in a public place out of the city budget as a state secret,” Atanackovic said.
Atanackovic said that, according to him, this monument is an expression of arbitrariness and that its megalomaniac size, problematic symbolism and price serve to make citizens feel less like citizens, to be reduced to subjects.
The problem, he added, is that the monument is being erected in the place where the urban crime occurred and the railway station was removed, and that “the monument will be erected in honor of this regime and the mad leader who decides everything.”
He added that the City Assembly has now entered into an administrative dispute with the Commissioner because they are disputing his decision.
Ćulibrk pointed out that the peak of the absurd will be when the Municipal Assembly loses the administrative dispute because it will not reveal information and will pay a fine of 350,000. 400,000 dinars and we, the citizens who live in this city, will pay that fine again.
The adjunct professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Biljana Djordjevic, pointed out that the central question is that if you are a citizen and someone manages your money, you have the right to control how that money is spent and if it is spent in your interest.
“It is our basic political right, the problem is that as a society we have not developed the capacity of citizens to ask that question, which is their right,” he said.
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