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It is good to be successful, and even better when success comes to all members of the family at the same time.
This is exactly what happened to members of the Brnabić family, when Ana reached an unprecedented peak in her life as Prime Minister of Serbia, and Igor, her brother, as director of Aseko, soon saw his company achieve tenfold more jobs for the state than before. Well, nothing.
Nice, but also suspicious.
Because how to explain such a rapid leap in confidence that state companies and institutions give to a company in which Igor Brnabić is the manager, if not for family ties with the formally first man of the State? And again, how to show that such a leap is really a consequence of nepotism and not a mere coincidence? After all, Aseko is a real company. It is not a ghost office, registered with the APR a few days before the tender. It is not a company that grows raspberries, and along the way it imports respirators for the state, as happened in the Republika Srpska. It is a large software company that supplies software to government institutions. So at least there is no question that they are competent for the job they are doing.
But is that enough? Is Serbia at the level of the country where we are satisfied that the work has not been delivered to a company that does not know how to do it? Maybe we are, because if we look at who has won tenders in recent years in, say, the construction sector and how these jobs ended, maybe we should be happy that EPS will not lose the electricity reading system, as it fell the slope at Grdelicka. throat. But Serbia is still a slightly more advanced country than the ordinary banana of the republic, so that reason in 2020 cannot be acceptable.
EPS, which is Asek’s largest state contracting authority, is obliged to explain to the public why such tenders come from the company of which the prime minister’s brother is director, only in the period since he took office as prime minister, and not before. How does EPS need those jobs right now, and didn’t they need them before Ana Brnabić became the head of government? And if EPS has had such big tenders before, how come Aseko didn’t win them even before Ana Brnabić gained political influence?
There may be reasonable answers to all of these questions, but we have not yet heard from the state. Imagine that in the United States, state services have suddenly increased the rent of rooms in Trump hotels around the country and the world by ten since 2017. Would that be suspicious? Would Congress seek answers? Would the prosecution be interested? We know that the prosecution in Serbia will not be interested, but the citizens of Serbia who pay for all this do not deserve to hear the answers to all these questions from the Prime Minister and the director of EPS, who will not insult the intelligence of the listeners. Or are we a banana republic after all?
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