Jelisaveta Vasilić responded to the Prime Minister – Reactions

The Council is a collective body that responded to the statement of the Prime Minister, with whom I fully agree.

However, since I was personally appointed, I have the right and the obligation to give my personal answer.

I thank the Prime Minister for finally taking an interest in the work of the Council after many years, because in these eight years no one in the Government has been interested in what we do, why we work and how we work, although we are an advisory body of the Government.

Each year, the Council submits to the Government its work report for the current year and its work plan for the following year.

If the Government had been interested in our work, it could have known from the report and work plan which areas of corruption would be addressed, with the issue of protection of public property being a constant subject of prosecution, as it is highly valuable assets. and unpredictable consequences of corruption.

Public property is regulated by the Constitution and the Public Property Law, which lists the forms of public property that I will list to remind you of the property that we must all protect.

These are natural resources (waters, waterways, aquatic lands, bodies of water, springs; mineral resources; assets of general interest (agricultural and other lands, forests and forest lands, cultural assets); assets of general use (roads, railways, bridges, squares, parks). and networks).

Working on these reports is very problematic, because it is a large public property that is very attractive to corruption.

Since I spoke in my interview about the unavailability of data in relation to state-owned agricultural lands, I have mentioned the RGA as an institution from which we never received full documentation, so we were never able to complete the reports written in November 2012, May 2015 and December 2017.

All these years we have been persistently searching for documentation because in the 2017 report we found the disappearance of property data from 84 agricultural companies in the area of ​​122,000 ha, that we identified 11,000 ha of some property that was named as “unspecified property” We do not know what a form of property is, because it is not in the Constitution.

We also determined that property data on 11,000 ha were missing and 7,650 ha and 3,511 ha were missing, which were named “some other property” and “mixed property”.

RGZ refused to present data and documentation to the City Council with the explanation that it was a commercial secret, so the last refusal would be explained by the lack of security controls.

We constantly file complaints with the commissioner, all made by decisions, but those commissioner’s decisions were never carried out.

Since we had several meetings with dissatisfied farmers, we decided to try once again to obtain the necessary documentation from the competent institutions to establish the truth in relation to the facts of the alienation of state agricultural lands.

The Prime Minister’s speech is surprising, who instead of determining how the RGA works and why it does not present the requested data and does not execute the binding decisions of the Commissioner, as well as why the farmers are unhappy, asks to be given the names disgruntled authorities.

An interesting question is what would the Prime Minister do with those names, what possible consequences could it have for them because they addressed the Council and said that in Vojvodina there are cases where the government illegally allowed some people to acquire hectares and hectares of state agricultural land . to the detriment of paora.

The Council will not give the names of dissatisfied people, it is not the names that the Council cares about, but the reasons for the dissatisfaction and how to help people obtain justice according to the law.

Finally, I almost forgot that the Prime Minister asked me to resign as a member of the Council.

Of course I will not resign, but I will teach the president that it is her responsibility to fire me, if she wants, and that she can do so at any time without my decision.

I will not talk about the president of the state, about the way he addressed me and my family, which is illegal, uneducated and uneducated, it is simply not my level, but it is not his constitutional authority to address a member of the Council of that way.

The author is the president of the Council for the Fight against Corruption.

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