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Although the government itself announced that the vaccination points would also work during the holidays, the H1 team found people in front of the Belexpo Center, while the center itself was closed. The Prime Minister called an extraordinary press conference late in the afternoon, accusing H1 TV and its journalists of spoiling the vaccination plan and of being “political opponents” of the live and text inclusion – seven hours earlier, in the one that the statements of people who were waiting in front of that checkpoint, claiming to have a call. At the same time, the Prime Minister admitted that she personally did not allow people from eGovernment and her cabinet to answer the H1 questions.
The Prime Minister of Serbia denied that the vaccination was scheduled for today at the Belexpo Center, as some citizens told H1 Live, accusing H1 of “wanting to jeopardize the vaccination process” and the success achieved by the state, stating that the news was spread by other means. Brnabic said that no one would be invited to receive the vaccine today, and that the people who made such a statement were scheduled to be vaccinated for February 17 at the same time.
“Where did the H1 team come from when the Belexpo Center is not working today? What did you do there? People gave you information that is not accurate and you could check their phone. So you are trying to contact the Electronic Government Office, I said that they do not give answers, because if the director gave a denial, that would be the last piece of news in the lower left corner of your portal where the denial is a phrase and I did it. I don’t want to give it to them, because I’m here to defend the vaccination process, “he replied the first Minister.
H1 journalist Jelena Zorić, who was at the conference, explained that the television crew was in front of the Belexpo center, because she reviewed the announcements that vaccination would continue during the holidays, and that it was not a practice for journalists to read phone messages other people’s mobiles. He said that it is not possible to control what citizens say in the live program, but also that there is correspondence, in which the e-government says that the director Mihajlo Jovanović will not give statements, so it was not possible to verify.
The H1 journalist asked the Prime Minister if this was another political turnaround and if it was possible to really believe that the H1 journalists wanted to ruin the vaccination process, even though they had vaccinated themselves, to which the Prime Minister replied affirmatively: saying that he didn’t mean it. “Know that”.
The confession of the prime minister
N1 executive producer Igor Božić said that at the conference, Prime Minister Ana Brnabić admitted that she did not allow the director of the Office of Electronic Government, Mihajlo Jovanović, to give a statement to H1, so that we could verify whether citizens they had a scheduled vaccination. for today at the Belexpo Center, then he accused our television of publishing false news.
Bozic explained why the H1 team was in front of the Belexpo Center this morning and what preceded the Prime Minister’s extraordinary conference.
“Direct involvement of our reporter in the morning program, in which she tried to find out what was happening with the people who are there in front of the Belexpo center, she found about 40 people who arrived and waited 5-10 minutes and left, because they were waiting, considering that the government itself announced that vaccination will continue normally during the holidays. “He found people who came when they saw the camera and said we had a call, that they couldn’t believe their phones, whether they received it or not, and the site broadcast a live broadcast,” Bozic said.
Subsequently, according to Bozic, they contacted him from the electronic Administration, in order to deny those statements of the citizens, to which they were offered the director to declare and explain what happened.
“I said let’s clarify and let the director give us a statement. Our reporter was supposed to record it, but there was no response from the other side, then we received information about 1 o’clock that the director would not give a statement. And then we learned at the conference that the Prime Minister did not want to allow him to make a statement, because the Prime Minister wanted to have an affair. “It was all done because she wanted to make a romance, that H1 wants to ruin the vaccination process,” said the H1 executive producer.
“The prime minister asks her if she checked it, and then she says that she prevented that information from being verified and obtained in time. We changed the news, because in an informal conversation, an employee of the Electronic Administration Office told me what happened. We wanted to show that we have information, but it is not official. We offered live participation to the director and she did not allow it. The employee told me that she checked if the man who spoke on H1 this morning had a call for today, Brnabić did not verify, he manipulates in his statements and that is frustrating, ”says Božić.
As you said, the goal of the conference is to discredit what H1 is doing about banal examples.
“This is a direct game with the media, when you have a problem with citizens, citizens may not be honest, they may have thought they were invited but they did not, but to turn this story around we wanted to endanger the vaccination.The process is absurd, and it may only serve political purposes to express public opinion against H1, because the Voice of America carried that story. You were waiting for a press conference to do a circus. He said that no one called from H1 and then said that I would not allow him to make a statement, “says Igor Božić.
Ivan Đurić from the Youth Initiative for Human Rights said that J.If it is dangerous to make that kind of division, in which the representatives of the authorities insist, on ours and theirs, especially in the media. “The Prime Minister is wrong when she calls the opponents of vaccination at any time, except televisions with national frequencies that promote anti-vaccines every day,” she said live on Dan, referring to the conference.
The authorities, he stressed, must be available to comment, especially in regards to vaccination and public health, that although there is a mistake to prevent it, and not to make it big news.
