The Kentkart case: Aleksandar Šapić would have to resign immediately

Taking over the position of mayor, Aleksandar Šapić began his further journey to the heights on the subject of free textbooks, kindergartens and of course the termination of the harmful contract with Kentkart. It was characteristic of these proposals that there was no feasibility study behind them, no serious intention to fulfill the promises so that in the end it would not be "a more expensive gift than a measure" as the people would say, and in the pocket of the same mentioned people. The pre-climax of the Kentkart situation certainly sounds like something that would have to be paid for first, and if there is any common sense in the sick system, that guild will be paid by those who built it on the Šapić - Vesić route.

While the citizens were tasked with recalling the multiplication tables in an attempt to understand the new calculation of transport ticket prices that the mayor changes on a daily basis, lively discussions were held behind the scenes as to who would implement the new system. As it usually happens in lively conversations, they broke away not only from control but also from the space in which they were conducted. That's how it is in public video appeared in which the current mayor's chief of staff does not ask Kentkart representatives for the price of terminating the contract, even if that price included faking a temporary termination by setting up a new contract.

Nevertheless, "better a sparrow in the hand than a pigeon on a branch" ruled this indecent business offer, and now it's the turn of the prosecution. This must not be accepted as a precedent guided by the mayor's romanticized statement "The first time in the history of corruption that someone rigged something to protect the state and the city."

The current government is the previous government, it was called Vesić or Šapić, the mechanism is the same. The signature on a contract can be different, the damage to citizens that occurs is not different. One signs a contract without grounds, which the other tries to terminate without legal grounds. There are systems in which corruption is held accountable, in which citizens are not burdened with paying for the game played by the powerful. This is the new reality of the country and the city that we will fight for.

The author is a councilor of the Democratic Party in the Assembly of the City of Belgrade

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