Photo: Tanja Valić/Tanjug"Evaluating or stigmatizing people only on the basis of whether and how many children they have, besides being an invasion of privacy, is inadmissible and represents discrimination," said Brankica Janković, commissioner for the protection of equality, for the "Vremena" portal.
We have almost become accustomed to hearing various insults in the Serbian Parliament, and it is as if the border has been crossed a long time ago. But what was heard from the current Minister of State Administration and Self-Government, Aleksandar Martinović, can be said to go down in one of the annals of dishonor.
The commissioner for the protection of equality, Brankica Janković, told the "Vremena" portal that such a statement is extremely inappropriate and offensive for a large number of our citizens, and for many of them it is very painful.
And what exactly did Martinovć say, and why wasn't he taken away from speaking, and he had to, and today the opposition demanded that he leave the assembly hall?
Martinović insulted and called opposition MPs without children.
"Now you want us to list which of you are neither married nor have children, but instead of children they feed dogs, kittens, goldfish and so on," said Martinović, addressing the opposition MPs. All the opposition MPs responded to the name-calling of Minister Martinović, who, as he said, "feeds three", and the most violent was Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, who at one point called Martinović a "scum", for which he was removed from the session, and it was interrupted.
An apology would soften the weight of the words somewhat
"Evaluating or stigmatizing people based only on whether and how many children they have, besides being an invasion of privacy, is inadmissible and represents discrimination based on marital and family status." It is inappropriate for anyone to say something like that, especially when it comes to a minister in the government as the holder of the highest office," says Brankica Janković.
She points out that "although members of the Government and MPs are protected by immunity, they should not use their statements to insult and disparage political dissenters or anyone else." I believe an apology would soften the weight of the words somewhat."
Sociologist Dario Hajrić believes that the main goal of such behavior is the collapse of the political process. It is impossible to talk to someone who openly provokes you and tries to reduce the dialogue to an exchange of insults.
"The authorities want to present the Parliament as a dead end for democracy and thereby signal to us that it is not worth fighting for." Politics should appear to us as a dirty process that is best left to the ruling elite, because otherwise we expose ourselves to bullying."
However, as he adds, such communication is actually an excellent representation of the progressive technology of governance.
"Verbal violence in parliamentary broadcasts has its roots in the legal violence of the political class that has placed itself above the law, and is only possible thanks to it." That should be fodder for revolt," said sociologist Dario Hajrić for the "Vremena" portal.
Very dangerous and discriminatory statements
Sanja Pavlović, an activist of the Autonomous Women's Center, also comments for the "Vremena" portal that statements like this are not only inadmissible, but also very dangerous and discriminatory, especially since they come from the parliament speaker from the current minister.
"We already know about different tactics for dealing with dissenters, and therefore this kind of statement no longer surprises me, but it still shakes me, because it must not be normal. Although the minister did not address women in this particular situation, we know that women are always the culprits on duty when it comes to the demographic picture of Serbia and the evaluation of people based on whether they have or don't have children."
Pavlović adds that "families are different and that in itself is a value that should be recognized and nurtured, and if the demographic picture is a problem, then systemic solutions should be devised to improve the position of families with children, especially mothers and children, which are not discriminatory at the same time." , humiliating or leading back to medieval values, as is often the case in our society."
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