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Two MPs left SSP: "We are not interested in Dubravka Đedović's earrings"

November 19, 2024, 15:09 p.m MJ
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Members of the Freedom and Justice Party, Sonja Pernat and Irena Živković, have decided to leave this parliamentary club. Such a decision comes just a few weeks after two more MPs left the party

Sonja Pernat, deputy from Zrenjanin, announced that she is leaving the parliamentary club Freedom and Justice Party, and to join the future Sloga club, taken aback by what her Party of Freedom and Justice did to her

As she told, the SSP sent her two people to hand her the decision to dissolve the board in an inappropriate and blessedly uncultured way, in the middle of the session, without notifying her beforehand, reports Danas.

She also stated that she was not informed about the collection of signatures for the impeachment of the government.

She concluded that the system cannot be changed if it is done behind closed doors.

"My capacities were marginalized only because I had my own thinking, here I take the blame on myself, I don't want to follow such a policy when you cut and marginalize someone," she said.

We are not interested in the minister's earrings

Sonja Pernat also stated that as a member of the SSP from Zrenjanin, she did not have time to talk about the problems of Zrenjanin at the sessions, a city that is a paradigm for corruption.

Her colleague Irena Živković, SSP MP from Bor, shares a similar opinion, saying that they informed the Assembly yesterday about leaving the SSP political club.

She said that in this country, anyone who has a different opinion becomes a victim of lynching, but that until now she thought that it only came from SNS, and that since yesterday she has been convinced that it is the same with the people she worked with until yesterday.

"I was nominated for the parliamentary seat by no one other than the Board of Bor, and I cannot accept that at the meeting about Rio Tinto, I, as the only Boran woman, have to remain silent while everyone else talks about my Bor, while Dubravka Đedović tells lies about my town, I have to I am silent while someone else, instead of denying her on RTS, talks about her earrings", said Živković.

Pernat also referred to the talk about earrings, who says that she is not interested in the necklace of Minister Dubravka Đedović, but in two laws that are being passed in front of the radar, and on the basis of which, for example, the company Linglong from Zrenjanin would have to prepare a unique study, that is, it would not could do business in this way.

Mentioning Goran Kovačević Goranac, who is close to the SNS, Pernat said that she does not know those connections, but she knows that the party did not provide any legal assistance to her party colleague from the SSP, whose house was thrown a Molotov cocktail.

She said that she wants to represent people who are left with a thousand dinars at the end of the month, which the center of Belgrade does not see, emphasizing that she herself was fired completely illegally after 22 years of work.

"SNS and SSP in the same manner"

"I tell my colleagues that they will never see Serbia until they leave Vračar", said Živković, adding that she will continue to deal with social issues, as she has been doing so far.

Both MPs stated that the SSP has similar manners to the ruling SNS, while Živković, responding to Tanjug's question, said that she conveyed her dissatisfaction to the leader of the SSP, Dragan Đilas, and that he justified her in that message.

"As the opposition, we have to admit that it's not working, we have to admit that we are wrong and that we need to change, we have to first give support to the citizens and then expect it from them," said Živković.

From SSP in Slog

At the end of October, two MPs, Željko Veselinović and Đorđe Đorđić, made the decision to leave the SSP parliamentary club.

"I would like to inform you that this morning I made one of the most difficult decisions in my life, which is to leave the parliamentary club of the Freedom and Justice Party together with my friend Đorđe Đorđić. The decision was not made overnight. I personally informed the President of the SSP Dragan Đilas about this back in June. I wish my comrades all the best in their future work," Veselinović wrote on his Facebook profile at the time.

As he added, he will never say a single bad word about anyone.

By the way, Veselinović and Đorđić plan to establish a new workers' party - Sloga. The two were present at the press conference together with the two MPs Pernat and Živković, who also want to join the new parliamentary club.

Novica Antić, former president of the Military Trade Union of Serbia, will also be part of the Initiative Committee for the formation of the Workers' Party.

The former first man of the Military Union of Serbia, Novica Antić, was released from custody on August 20, after spending almost six months in custody on charges of abusing the position of president of the Military Union of Serbia and misappropriating funds.

He was released by force of law, because the High Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad, which is handling the case, did not file an indictment within the legal deadline of six months. His own brother was also arrested in the meantime.

"Antic, a long-time fighter for the rights of workers in the Serbian Army and a brave trade union activist, pointed out earlier today in his announcement that the idea of ​​a workers' party among trade unionists has matured in recent years. During his mandate in the Military Union of Serbia, Antić particularly advocated for the establishment of a collective agreement that would protect the rights of employees in the army. "Unfortunately, his struggle was not understood by the authorities," Sloga Željko Veselinović said in a statement.

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