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Danas sources on relations between the president of Serbia and some of his godparents: closer to Petrović, reconciled with Bašanović
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, is closest to the businessman and former CEO of the Serbian Electric Power Industry, Nikola Petrović, when it comes to relations with his godparents, who, as he himself publicly states, ” He’s 75, “but he” doesn’t let anyone else “with whom he also has” godfather connections, “unofficial sources in political and security circles say de Danas.
Photo: FoNet / InstagramOur interlocutors claim that Petrovic was Vucic’s best man at his second wedding, to Tamara Djukanovic, in the fall of 2013. While all the details of that celebration remained under a veil of secrecy, it is known that Vojislav Seselj was his best man when married for the first time – the journalist Ksenija Jankovic, to whom he has been married since 1997.
At that time, Vučić, let us remember, was serving as the general secretary of the Serbian Radical Party.
As we have learned unofficially, the Serbian president is no longer “that close” to Zoran Basanovic, the pop manager, whom he sponsored at the 2010 wedding, at a time when Basanovic was a member of the Serbian Progressive Party, formed two years earlier. , but “the two are not in hostile relationships.”
It should be remembered that Vučić declared for TV H1 that Bašanović, together with Dragan Đilas, the leader of the Freedom and Justice Party, “buys televisions and together with Đilas destroys me.”
Commenting on such claims, Djilas briefly told Danas: “Vucic is lying.”
Some sources in our newspaper explain: “Basanovic introduced Vucic to Tamara Djukanovic, for a while the two fought a silent war, but they reconciled when the story about the mini Schengen began, because Basanovic has excellent relations with the Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev “.
Reacting recently to KRIK’s revelations that Nikola Petrović bought an airline from controversial businessman Stanko Subotić, Vučić said he “has no idea what (Petrović) is buying and what he’s doing, I have 75 godparents.”
“A person is engaged in a private business, his whole life, I have nothing to do with it,” he said. When asked if he believes that Vučić, when he claims that he knows nothing about Petrović’s affairs, Bojan Pajtić, former Prime Minister of Vojvodina, tells Danas: “There is no place where Nikola Petrović does not point out that he is Aleksandar Vučić’s godfather. . “
– Even in the proceedings he initiated against me because he allegedly “damaged his business reputation”, he claimed that I called him because he is Vučić’s godfather, leaving the impression that they are “one”. So one of the godparents is definitely lying: Alec or Nikola. Vučić also says that he has 75 godparents. He really is the best at everything. Even when a person sees the structure of these godparents in the media, they realize that the leader even “crossed over” to Alibaba almost twice, Pajtić notes, when Petrović sued for “damaging business reputation,” but that claim was rejected. in 2018, three years after its presentation. The subject of the dispute was the transcripts of Pajtić’s alleged conversation with Lidija Udovicki, then one of the managers of “Continental Winds”. Pajtic said that in that telephone conversation, as well as in the e-mails that the company “Continental Winds” sent to state institutions, there was a claim from people from the company that Petrovic was “blackmailing” them.
Without a doubt, the most controversial godfather of the state president is Petar Panić Pana, the former bodyguard of Vojislav Šešelj and the then comrade in arms of “Seselj” Tomislav Nikolić. According to the media, Panic has a “too rich police record”, and joined the SNS shortly after Nikolic and Vucic founded it. It is speculated that although “it has been a long time since he had a friendly relationship with Panić”, Vučić would not even “let him pass the water”. As our sources explain: “Panic is serious business and has strong connections in the security structures.”
The godfather ties between Seselj and Vucic are multiple. In addition to the aforementioned best man, the SRS leader was also the best man at the baptism of Vučić’s children, Danilo and Milica. Although he made no secret of his deep disappointment in Vučić for leaving SRS, Seselj later “calmed down the rhetoric” towards him, while continuing to harshly criticize his second godfather, Tomislav Nikolić, the former president of Serbia. The leader of the radicals once told TV Pink 3 that two days after returning to the country from prison in The Hague, he was called by Danilo Vučić, who was still a minor at the time, and said: “Godfather, I am Danilo, I’d like to see you. Seselj invited him as a guest, and he came with his sister Milica. “A nice gesture on his part, if he hadn’t called, I wouldn’t have called, I wouldn’t have called anyone … I kept a best man with Danilo, but I’m still a political opponent with Danilo’s father, “Seselj said.
When asked if Seselj and Vucic are still in contact, Vjerica Radeta, SRS vice president, told Danas: “They don’t have any private contacts, but the two should comment on that.” When asked how he commented on Vucic’s statement that he has “75 godparents,” Radeta says: “I didn’t understand that he thought he had exactly 75 godparents, I think he meant there are a lot of godparents, which is quite common among Serbs. Otherwise, I don’t think it is important to perform any functions if someone has and how many sponsors. “
Great confidence in Glisic
Darko Glisic, the current chairman of the SNS Executive Board, is also on the “list” of the Serbian president’s godparents. Our sources explain that he is one of Vučić’s most trusted people and “the main operative of the party.” “Glisic earned the trust of the president of the Progressives while he was running the municipality of Ub, because he obtained the best results in a municipality of all the SNS officials,” the Danas interlocutors specify. What is less known is that Vučić has a godfather relationship with Nebojsa Stefanović, the current Interior Minister. It is claimed that they regained their reason while Stefanović was the president of the National Assembly.
Other godparents among politicians
Godparents among politicians are relatively common, but some of the godparents no longer have a close relationship. Among other things, Boris Tadić and Dragan Sutanovac, Vuk Drašković and Vojislav Šešelj, Maja Gojković and Igor Mirović, Branko Ružić and Dejan Backović, Dušan Bajatović and Jovica Stanišić are connected by godfather…
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