Jovanka Broz’s Villa Ani Brnabić for the second term? – politics

If the frequent assertions that Prime Minister Ana Brnabić and her family will soon be moving to the village in Dedinje where Jovanka Broz, the widow of the President for Life of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito, lived, remains a An enigma, as neither the government’s Office for Cooperation with the Media nor its associate prime ministers did not want to answer Danas’ questions on the subject.

The 750-square-meter house at Ulica Kneeza Aleksandra Karađorđevića 75 belongs to “representative buildings of the state”, but has been in poor condition for years.

The remodeling of the building, whose official name is Villa Bor, began last year at the expense of the state and according to the Nova.rs portal, the building “shines again in all its splendor, from the access sidewalk and fencing, to the most Minimal details of the facade, and a large number of security cameras. Vecernje novosti wrote in late 2019 that it was planned to allocate around 34 million dinars for the renovation of the villa. The media estimates that the villa is worth at least four million of euros.

Some representatives of diplomatic circles affirm for Danas that “given that the facility has been renovated and that large funds have been invested in it, it will surely be used by state officials, most likely the Prime Minister.”

Let us remind you, Brnabić, who recently won her second term as prime minister, stated in late August that there was a possibility that there would be a new prime minister in the village of Jovanka Broz, emphasizing that “the government will decide on that, in accordance with the needs, I don’t decide on that. “

According to available data, Prime Minister Ana Brnabić has an apartment in Dedinje, near the White Palace, with an area of ​​328 square meters, which she bought in 2014 for 490,000 euros, and “paid part of the purchase price of the loan “.

At that time, according to the official biography, she was a director of the company Continental Wind Serbia (CWS), where she was working on an investment worth 300 million euros in a wind farm in the municipality of Kovin.

She was also Vice President of the Board of Directors of the National Alliance for Local Economic Development.

Ana Brnabić entered the Government of Serbia in 2016 as a non-partisan person, becoming Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government.

Compared to 2017, when she was elected Prime Minister for the first time, Ana Brnabić has a new addition: she and her partner Milica Đurđić had a son.

Commenting on the allegations that Prime Minister Brnabić will move to the villa where Tito’s widow lived, Josip Joška Broz, Tito’s grandson and MP on the SPS list, told Danas: “Normally it should be, but they could have renewed it before “.

When asked what the relocation of the prime minister to that building would mean from a security point of view, Dragan Sutanovac, former Serbian Defense Minister and current chairman of the Council for Strategic Policies, specified for our document:

“The Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia is one of the protected persons exercising the right to stay in an official apartment or house. The BIA conducts a security assessment based on which it makes plans to protect the protected persons.”

– It is difficult to suppose if the Prime Minister is more threatened today than in previous years, but certainly by moving into the official house, security will be raised to a higher level. Unfortunately, we live in a country where the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and several high-ranking officials were killed, so the Prime Minister’s safety should not be questioned. If the house where Jovanka Broz lived is the best solution, I could not comment on that, but it is true that in this way the work will be easier for everyone involved in the protection, but also the lives of the former neighbors who suffered certain consequences Sutanovac notes. .

Where previous prime ministers lived

* After being elected to that post in January 2001, the late Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic initially lived in his apartment at Studentski trg in Belgrade and later, for security reasons, moved to a residence at Uzicka 40 in Dedinje.

* Vojislav Kostunica, who became president of the FRY in the autumn 2000 elections and then Prime Minister of Serbia from 2004 to 2008, never moved from his apartment in a building on Gospodar Jevremova street in Stari municipality of Belgrade. city.

* Vojislav Kostunica’s “successor” as Prime Minister, Mirko Cvetkovic, who led the government from 2008 to 2012, also lived in a 150-square-meter family home owned by his wife in Zemun.

* The current president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, who served as prime minister from 2014 to 2017, owns a studio apartment in the “Belleville” neighborhood in New Belgrade, which according to the available data paid 39,000 euros, and together with His studio apartment is a 104 square meter apartment owned by his wife Tamara. Vučić uses Villa Bokeljka, in Dedinje, mainly for the reception of foreign officials, but according to some sources, Danas also lives there. These accusations are borne out by the fact that a group of Vučić supporters came together to express their support when he traveled to Brussels and Washington in early September.

* Ivica Dačić, both as Prime Minister from 2012 to 2014 and now, according to available data, lives in a four-room apartment in Dedinje, which he bought from the state in 1997, when he was a deputy and spokesperson for the SPS.

2013 robbery

Villa Bor was assaulted in February 2013, during the life of Jovanka Broz. As RTS reported at the time, a desk was raided and valuables belonging to Broz’s widow were confiscated. Jovanka Broz lived in that abandoned building for 33 years, from the time she was forcibly evicted from the residence located at Užička 15 after her husband’s death, until his death. “Only one corner does not leak,” he said when ministers Ivica Dacic and Rasim Ljajic handed him their personal documents in 2009, after three decades.

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