Completed session of the Serbian Assembly without opposition, EU concerned about violence – BBC News in Serbian

MPs of the Serbian Parliament have completed work, and discussing amendments and the proposed laws will continue on Thursday 6. March.

Riots, smoke, torches, pepper spray, eggs and false bomb alert marked the first working day of the Prophet in 2025. Years.

The Serbian Parliament continued to work on Wednesday, 5. March, after the vulnerable beginning of spring sessionwith increased security and without most opposition deputies.

The opposition deputies said that will not return In the Parliament Assembly, after the search of the parliament, their offices and false alerts about the submitted bomb.

They sent the message during the first day of the session, they added.

Violence is unacceptable, parliament should be space for a democratic debate, they said from the EU.

The institutions « will not pull before the savagery and terrorism, » Ana Brnabic, President of the Assembly of Serbia, ahead of the session, where the deputies should discuss more tens of the agenda.

Amendments to the Law on Higher Education, which would be fulfilled one of the four requests of students in the blockade are among them.

However, the resignation of Prime Minister Miloš Vučević is not, although Ana Brnabić, the President of Parliament, announced that she would talk about her at the end of her session.

Vučević submitted irrevocable resignation after attacks on students in Novi Sad during the night of 28. January.

The resignation followed three months after the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad when 15 people were killed, waves of everyday protests and student blockades across the country.

At the beginning of the session, the opposition was said to say that « government in the resignation and cannot propose laws » and that the student requirements and resignations of the Prime Minister should only be discussed.

While on Tuesday 4. March lasted, students of several faculties in the blockade held a protest in front of the Serbian Parliament building, and a group of remaining demonstrators later threw eggs on the red carpet stairs.

For more than three months, students block colleges and protest the streets throughout Serbia.

Among the four requirements is to determine the criminal responsibility for Novi Sad Tragedy.

Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia, meanwhile, mentioned deadlines for the formation of a new government or extraordinary election several times.

The first spring session has been completed that it began – mutual accusations of majority and opposition parties.

Members of the Criminal Police Directorate were then invested in the hall to determine how pyrotechnic funds were entered.

In the meantime, it has arrived and the bomb was placed in the parliament building, but after the Ministry of the Interior (MUP), after review, they said it was a false notification.

The institutions « will not pull before the savagery and terrorism, » the day later Ana Brnabić, President of the Assembly of Serbia.

Incidents in the Assembly it condemned On Tuesday, more public prosecutor's office (VJT) in Belgrade, reminding that « parliamentary immunity does not protect national representatives from criminal prosecution for crimes in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the country. »

I was sentenced by Tonino Picula, a special rapporteur of the European Parliament for Serbia, warning that the « political crisis affected the parliament and that the physical endangerment of the MPs is unacceptable. »

« We are very concerned about the distractions of work and violence in the Serbian Parliament.

Parliament must be a place for a democratic debate in the interest of all citizens,  » has attached Marta Kos, the European Commissioner for Enlargement.

Two parliamentary days

Slobodan Maričić, BBC Reporter

Two days, two different pictures.

On Tuesday, we entered the National Assembly in a usual way – a bag or backpack at the tape as an airport, and the passage through the door scanner and then the elevator in the press chair.

Many with breakfast and bags from a nearby bakery in their hands.

The first regular session in 2025. She started for 10 hours, accompanied by an anthem by intonening and all acted as always, while they did not try to enter the ministers in the resignation.

The smoke spread through the hall, the eggs took off, and there were physical conflicts.

As a minute later, numerous deputies and employees in the parliamentary administration, swelled and red, hurriedly coughed chased the hallways.

Some others wore water, masks and napkins, others simply went to their parliamentary clubs, and Ubzo was seen and fire fields, as well as ambulance doctors.

The pinch was a little for the eyes and in the journalistic hall, and it was cold, as security has opened all the windows as to whether the Assembly spent the assembly as soon as possible.

The day later, the situation reversed.

The session flows without the opposition, whose members in the hall held two press conferences, while ministers in the resignations and deputies in the ruling majority in the hall occur for the word and controverses themselves.

Regular parliamentary day.

However, this time, entry into the home of democracy was a slightly more complicated.

There was far more security on the door, which was asked to take off the strap and watches, and the jackets were on the bar.

It was not possible to enter food and water, so certain deputies and journalists stay without breakfast.

What's everything on the agenda?

At the first session of the regular session of the Assembly, more than two months since the beginning of the year, the agenda with 62 points was adopted, mostly dedicated to the approval of further government borrowing for development infrastructure.

The ministers spoke a polished white liquid, ordering that they would not give up the set plan and change the set of laws.

The agenda is also amended on the agenda Law on Higher Educationwhose adoption will be fulfilled the fourth student request, according to the officials of officials.

It envisions a decrease in tuition for 50 percent for self-financing students and increasing budgets for higher education for 20 percent – for 12 billion dinars.

MPs should argue yo Draft Law on Housing Credits For young people between 20 to 35 years, they have none of the property owned.

Among the items of the agenda is and Draft Law on Cancel Visa For the residents of Venezuela, Guatemala, Antigua and Barbuda and Tuvalua.

Modifications are also proposed Law on Import and Export Double-purpose goods – what are products, but also software and technology, which can be used in civil and military purposes.

These goods can be used in unexplosive purposes and in any way can be used in order to expand or produce weapons for mass destruction, it is written in a valid law, aimed at protecting defense, security, economic and foreign policy interests of the state.

The last point of the agenda is a proposal for the dismissal of Ana Brnabić, who submitted opposition deputies. December, accusing it for « violations of the Constitution of Serbia, the Law on the Assembly and the Assembly ».

The resolution process is prescribed Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly of Serbia.

The function of the President of the National Assembly can stop resolving, resigning or termination of mandates, in the same procedure as for elections, « writes in the Rules of Procedure.

The proposal of dismissal may submit at least 30 deputies, and the decision is made by parliamentary voting.

Zajecar: Police in full equipment before the session

In a similar time, 250 kilometers from Belgrade, in the East of the country, began the session of the Zajecar Assembly.

The building was provided by police officers in full equipment, ahead of which opposition councilors and people who protested together.

Prior session scheduled for 25.02. It was postponed due to the lack of the quorum, when some Zajecari and opposition representatives gathered in front of the City Assembly, allegedly dissatisfied with local self-government plans.

Their entry in the hall where the session was supposed to be held prevented by private security and police.

The building took the eggs, and the pepper spray was also used.

Ten days later, the session was still held, because there was a quorum, but short, and the agenda of the original 37 points was reduced to five.

While the ruling majority argued that it was a continuation of the previous session, the councilors from the opposition said that the session was illegal.

After the voting endthe two SNS schedulers made irrevocable disasters, which has lost most of the ruling coalition in the local parliament.

See how the first session of the MPs went

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