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Law professor Vesna Rakić Vodinelić declared today that the “improvised” crisis personnel must be disbanded immediately and the bodies formed by the Law on Protection of the Population against Infectious Diseases and the Law on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management must be formed. of emergencies.
In a conversation with the Beta agency, Rakic Vodinelic emphasized that the existing crisis personnel have no authority and are not mentioned in the law at all.
“The Law for the Protection of the Population against Infectious Diseases mentions a commission of the republic that should have a permanent composition. The Crisis Staff was supposedly constituted by the government on March 13 of this year, although there is no trace of a government session on that date. it could have established a crisis headquarters, but it did so with a conclusion where it only listed the names of the staff members, “says Rakić Vodinelić.
According to her, the question arises as to why we have a crisis headquarters when, according to the Law for the Protection of the Population from Infectious Diseases, there is already a commission of the republic of infectious diseases as a permanent organism.
So, if there is the possibility provided by the Law for the Protection of the Population against Infectious Diseases, the question arises as to why the government establishes an alternative working body when the law prescribes it as a commission. It is important that the conclusion that determines the names of the officers does not determine their mandate. the task of the staff, what they should do ”, explained the teacher.
She says crisis staff can do whatever they can think of and that no one has to listen to them.
“All this legal action of the crisis headquarters gives the impression of a great improvisation, without our government giving any explanation of why it did it when the Law for the Protection of the Population from Infectious Diseases says something different”, says Rakic Vodinelic.
It points out that the Law on Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Management defines in detail the measures that can be applied and the bodies that apply them.
The law stipulates that emergency personnel will be headed by the Minister of the Interior.
According to the Law for the Protection of the Population against Infectious Diseases, the commission would be headed by the Minister of Health and he would determine the measures.
“I do not know what were the reasons for such improvisation with the establishment of the Crisis Personnel, but I can affirm that in both laws, which were not taken into account, there is sufficient legal basis to introduce a state of emergency, not a state of emergency. a triumvirate made up of the Prime Minister, the President of the Republic and the President of the National Assembly, with the explanation that the Assembly could not meet. It turned out that this was not true, “said the law professor.
Rakic Vodinelic estimates that the state of emergency was introduced so that the health part of the Crisis Staff was managed by the Prime Minister and the economic part by the President of the Republic, “which is not within its competence and allows centralization of the procedure in four hands “.
“On the other hand, it allowed to promote the personal role of the President of the Republic in the acquisition of respirators, so that it could be used for the electoral campaign. In all, the sad thing and in some way difficult to forgive is the large number of deaths” . “It is being officially carried out, if we believe the research carried out by BIRN, which is based on data carried out by the Government of Serbia, and the considerable suffering of the people, the overcrowding of the healthcare system and considerable disorganization. “said the professor.
“Take care of the infection in the regular flow of things”
Asked by Beta if it is too late to form organs for the fight against the pandemic provided for by law, Rakic Vodinelic said that according to the forecasts of epidemiologists, the pandemic will last a long time and that it is necessary to introduce attention to the infection in the regular course.
“Those bodies had to be formed already. This makeshift headquarters must be abolished and the bodies prescribed by law must be formed. It seems that the vaccine is quite far away and attention to this epidemic must really be brought into the regular course. The protection law of the inhabitants against infectious diseases is the law. not a decision or decree of the government and it determines precisely the competences “, said Rakic Vodinelic.
Asked whether crisis staff members are subject to legal liability, the professor said “they are not subject.”
“There is a question about the accuracy of the death toll and one of the most eminent epidemiologists in Serbia, Professor Zoran Radovanovic, asked the crisis staff members to send an apology to the citizens of Serbia, but they did not even do so. asking the government to make that decision, but of course holding the government accountable under such conditions is not realistic, “explained Rakic Vodinelic.
The Agency should have reacted to the conflict of interest
Regarding whether there is a conflict of interest between some members of the crisis staff, considering that their family members concluded lucrative deals related to the pandemic, Rakić Vodinelić says that the Anti-Corruption Agency had to react to knowledge that the brother or sister of one of the crisis personnel concludes million-dollar contracts with state agencies.
“The Law on the Anti-Corruption Agency defines the concept of conflict of interest and defines the circle of linked persons. This circle of linked persons certainly includes family members such as brother and sister, and in this case the entity could have raised the issue of the conflict of interest Dr. Darija Kisić Tepavčević and Dr. Zoran Gojković, but she did not, the two in this case, despite all the improvisations that have been made, are public officials because they were appointed by the public authorities, so the issue of conflict of interest really needs to be raised and if that is established, then the Anti-Corruption Agency Law provides for certain measures that the agency must take, “said Rakic Vodinelic.
Speaking of why we still do not have information on where 370 million euros was spent and to whom during the state of emergency, the professor assures that this information is hidden by the President of the Republic.
“We are not aware because the president of the republic likes to act like a monarch. The monarch is a legally irresponsible person, so he can, but the person who would have to give that report because it is within his competence is the Prime Minister of Serbia. The President of the Republic in general cannot get respirators, that is not his competence, “said Vesna Rakić Vodinelić.
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