Photo: CINSThe Serbian Progressive Party did not report any of the costs of the famous call center, even though it had to. President Vučić turned the story of the call center into a joke, the institutions are silent, and the citizens say that the Progressives are constantly calling them
The Serbian Progressive Party did not report to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption the costs of the call center in the preliminary report on the costs of the election campaign, writes Center for Investigative Journalism (CINS).
Corruption Prevention Agency has just released preliminary campaign spending reports.
"The cost of additional hiring of employees, the cost of communication, the lease of office space, or anything else that could be connected to the data that CINS obtained earlier, was not reported," said Nemanja Nenadić from Transparency Serbia.
CINS recently published the story of its journalist Ivana Milosavljević, who infiltrated the SNS call center. There, she proved with videos that the call center is run by a hostess agency that illegally pays call center employees and asks them to vote for SNS.
"I didn't expect," Milosavljević told "Vreme" about her journalistic venture, "that they would expose the entire system in the initial contact."
Vučić turned it into a joke
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, denied everything in an interview with NIN last week, saying that the inspection could possibly check whether there are any tax violations.
"Imagine a secret location, and we have no less than 1.500 people throughout Serbia in our municipal committees, most of them volunteers, and for those who are professionals, it is certain that the municipal committees or the party headquarters sometimes give something.", stated Vučić.
After the discovery of CINS, he sheepishly went to the call center and took a photo of himself with headphones on his ears.
However, journalist Ivana Milosavljević told "Vreme" that the case is the subject of several criminal charges and initiated proceedings - so far without an outcome.
Representatives of the opposition filed criminal charges, the City and Republican Electoral Commissions did nothing, the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office said that they would not act on their official duties, the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection also declares himself incompetent.
The application was also submitted to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, and so far without results.
Citizens' complaints
It seems that the Serbian Progressive Party has invested a good part of its resources in call centers. In a survey of our newsletter Medjuvreme, as many as a quarter of people stated that during the campaign they were called from the SNS call center.
"They called me three times," said a Belgrader to a Vremena journalist. "The point is that I never gave them a number or signed anywhere that they could call me." I told them I would report them if they turned me away again."
Pollsters of the New Serbian Political Thought also felt the glut of calls in an attempt to conduct an investigation in Belgrade. NSPM announced the results for Serbia on Tuesday, but not for Belgrade.
"Progressives spoiled everything with the frequent nagging of people from the call center." No one will talk on the phone anymore," said Đorđe Vukadinović, editor of NSPM.
NR (Time, CINS)
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