The proposal of the President of Serbia that the citizens vote on his dismissal in a referendum is not grounded in the Constitution. This is pure marketing, manipulation of citizens, law professor and MP Jelena Jerinić told Vreme.
In who knows what address to the nation, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić stated that those who are protesting against lithium mining or "seduced" or that they "don't like Serbia", there is no third.
He treated the protesters with all kinds of insults, was appalled at the monstrous lies they were telling and said that they all actually "want his head", so here it is: he will ask "his friend" Miloš Vučević to provide the opposition with the necessary number of deputies in the National Assembly, since there are not enough of them to start the procedure for a vote of no confidence in the President of the Republic, and then a referendum on the impeachment of the President, that is, him, will be called, so let the people declare themselves. what about him Vučić, as far as it is concerned, it can already be in December.
"Win, and I'm no longer president, I'm not going to wait until the end of my mandate," Vučić said.
The president's "friend", the prime minister and formal head of the Serbian Progressive Party, Vučević said that the SNS will support the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, in order to call a referendum on the confidence of the President of the Republic, it was announced on the party's Instagram account.
Miloš Vučević, in his capacity as vice-president of SNS, directly participated in one of Vučić's demagogic charades when in August 2021 he filed a criminal complaint against Aleksandar Vučić, who was formally the progressive president at the time, "due to the accusations of the criminal clan of Veljko Belivuk and his associates and the lies of the tycoon politicians close to them and their media".
Vučević filed a criminal complaint against his boss so that citizens would "clearly see all the evidence" in the court proceedings, "who is lying, why is he doing it, all the tentacles of the mafia octopus, the connection of this monstrous criminal clan with various political and other power centers, after which it should be unequivocally clear to the entire public why Vučić is their common target all the time".
In the meantime, Vucevic rose in the progressive hierarchy.
Manipulation and misinformation
Jelena Jerinić, a professor at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade and a People's Representative of the Green-Left Front, assesses for "Vreme" that it is a matter of manipulation by the President of Serbia in order to misinform the citizens of Serbia, which is unacceptable for the position Vučić is in.
"It is about some kind of Vučić procedure that does not exist in the law. It is not provided for anywhere. What the Constitution foresees is the dismissal of the President of the Republic. It is about establishing the president's responsibility for violating the Constitution. That initiative is launched on the proposal of one third of the deputies, 84 of them. After that, when the deputies submit that proposal, the Constitutional Court decides on it, which should say whether the president has violated the Constitution or not," explains Jerinić.
He adds that in that case the members of the Assembly of Serbia would decide on it and that a two-thirds majority is needed to dismiss him.
"Therefore, the Constitution does not provide for the participation of citizens in that procedure at all." It is very important to say that it is not an impeachment in the sense of political responsibility and that citizens will impeach him, but it is responsibility for violating the Constitution and the institutions decide on that. Because of all this, the question arises whether such a referendum announced by Vučić is even possible and whether it is allowed", says the interviewee of Vremena.
Plebiscite on lithium
The procedure announced by Vučić would take the form of a plebiscite, Jerinić estimates.
"In a similar way, a referendum would be organized on whether lithium should be mined or not." "I think that is the overriding idea of Vučić's performance yesterday, but we will not find an explanation of that idea in the legal acts of our country," Jerinić pointed out.
Speaking about Prime Minister Vučević and his statement that the SNS will support the President of Serbia in order to call a referendum on confidence in the President of the Republic, she noted that this is also not provided for by law, because the Constitution defines that the National Assembly can put to a referendum issues within its competence , in accordance with the Constitution and laws of our country.
"Nothing can be put to a referendum, precisely because it is very easy to abuse it." I think that Vučić knows very well what he is talking about and that he knows the Constitution very well, as well as his advisors and associates.
Because of all this, Jerinić is convinced that this is a marketing performance by the President of Serbia, at the center of which is the manipulation of citizens, as he has done many times before.
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