Žarko Mićin was elected as the new mayor of Novi Sad. The police have been stationed in front of the Assembly of the City of Novi Sad since the early hours of the morning. Voting without opposition councilors
Žarko Mićin was elected mayor of Novi Sad. 45 councilors voted for him, as many as attended the session. Opposition councilors claim that they were prevented from attending the session, while the President of the Novi Sad City Assembly Dina Vučinić and the newly elected mayor deny this.
"It hurts my soul that today I did not have representatives of the opposition here." I really don't know why they didn't come in, even if they criticized me," he said after the session where Mićin was elected, adding that he wants to be the mayor of all Novi Sad residents and asking to be given a chance.
Dina Vučinić, president of the Assembly of Novi Sad, said that the competent assembly services and the secretary of the City Assembly, Mirjana Vasilić, repeatedly invited opposition councilors to enter the Assembly building, but they ignored those calls.
Miran Pogačar, member of the civic movement Bravo in the Assembly of Novi Sad, denies such claims for "Vreme".
"That is an absolute lie." How can councilors enter when they are surrounded by hundreds of police officers and no one can get to the front door. We managed to approach at one point, but they pushed us away from the door. That same door was locked. From the very start, the police intervened and prevented us councilors from entering the City Assembly. In this way, after 85 years, the SNS elected the first occupation government for the first time, it is their government which is absolutely illegitimate and illegal. The SNS elected a mayor for itself, the citizens of Novi Sad absolutely do not recognize that, and the daily protests support that. "Citizens are absolutely dissatisfied and want this government to leave," Pogačar told Vreme.
Apart from Minic, Dejan Mandić, Danijela Andrić, Mirjana Marković, Milica Vučičević, Maja Čeremidžić Šainović, Aleksandar Bulajić, Milovan Amidžić, Milorad Radojević, Tatjana Medved, Sonja Radaković and Vanja Petković were elected as new members of the City Council.
Compared to the previous City Council, the new members are Danijela Andrić, Mirjana Marković, Milica Vučićević, Maja Čeremidžić Šainović.
What happened in Novi Sad?
Opposition councilors were prevented from attending the session where the new mayor of Novi Sad was elected, and in front of the building of the City Assembly there was complete chaos, which was stopped at 11:52 in order to pay a fifteen-minute tribute to the victims of the accident at the railway station in that city.
The crowd called the police gathered in front of the building to show respect by lowering their shields, but they did not do so.
A strong police cordon with shields has been in front of the city's parliament building since the early hours of the morning. The gathered citizens threw eggs, yogurt, toilet paper, red paint, and flour at them and at the Skushtina building.
The candidate for mayor of Novi Sad, Žarko Mićin, previously addressed the coalition partners in the City Assembly, at the session where his election was decided.
His speech and his election as mayor were followed by riots in front of the City Assembly building.
"I regret that I was elected mayor in this atmosphere." I hope that none of the police and citizens will be hurt. I plan to be the mayor of all the people of Novi Sad," Mićin said.
Addressing councilors in the Assembly of Novi Sad before the vote for his election, Žarko Mićin said that it is a great privilege to follow the paths paved by Miloš Vučević and Milan Đurić.
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Only councilors of the ruling majority are in the assembly hall, while the opposition remained outside.
"The supporters of the opposition came together, we had one column and we took the most peaceful possible way to enter. They (the police) created a cordon and a small passage. I told them that we are members of the City Assembly and to let us in. At that moment, the police started to intervene," Miran Pogačar told N1.
He explained that the police intervened "physically, by force".
"The police started with shields, to apply force and to stop us from entering the session," he added.
Pogačar stated that the police squeezed "shields, arms and legs", as well as "hitting and pulling".
The police administration in Novi Sad announced that the allegations that members of the police prevented councilors from opposition parties from entering the City Assembly and attending the session are not true. The MUP states that five policemen were injured in incidents in front of the Novi Sad City Assembly.
Councilor in the City Assembly Mladen Cvijetić told 021.rs that the opposition councilors were prevented from participating in the session.
"We came politely and civilly to enter our workplace, this is our workplace, we are opposition councilors, the citizens elected us." We are not allowed, the largest police force that has ever been seen in front of an institution in Novi Sad was used. The session is illegal, they elect themselves inside, without the voice of the citizens being heard, without the voice of the councilors being heard. We will enter that Assembly at some point, we councilors, but also citizens, because this is the Assembly of all citizens. Later, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, we will enter, but when we enter, when the citizens enter, there will be no peace for the government, and the government will not be able to return there. It will be the same cordon, but a cordon of citizens, dignified citizens", he stated.
He added that the citizens will not recognize the new mayor, and that they will never recognize him, and he said that in the coming period, they will begin the release of all captured institutions.
Disorder in front of the building of the Assembly of Novi Sad
A large number of policemen he arrived at the City Assembly early Monday morning Novi Sad, where a session is held where a new mayor should be elected.
In front of the Assembly, around 10 o'clock, complete chaos reigned. Citizens pelted the police with eggs, and then there was a push, reports 021.
The opposition councilors tried to enter the building and showed their identification cards to the gendarmerie, but they were not allowed inside.
Veljko Krstonošić, councilor of DS, said that this is his fourth mandate and that this is unprecedented that the police and gendarmerie do not let councilors who should discuss various issues and that they are prevented from participating in the election of the mayor, reports N1.
"We came to enter the building that belongs to us, we did not come to occupy the building, we are not vandals." "This is an order from Belgrade, people are sitting here who shouted 'Ustasha, Ustasha' with their students, and now they don't allow us councilors to enter," said Krstonošić.
There are strong security measures in the Assembly of Novi Sad, and journalists were thoroughly searched upon entering. As reported by the N1 reporter, security locked the journalists in a room where the press conference of the President of the Assembly Dina Vučinić was taking place.
06.49:XNUMX a.m. bus from Velika Plana and filled the City Assembly #Novi Sad pic.twitter.com/rsJemVkKik
- zarko bogosavljevic (@zarkobns) February 24, 2025
The session for the election of the new mayor was scheduled for 10 am.
From early in the morning, around 6.30:XNUMX, the police started arriving at the building of the City Assembly. According to videos published by journalist Žarko Bogosavljević on the social network "X", the policemen brought their full equipment to the entrance to the city parliament, reports Nova.rs.
Around seven o'clock, as can be seen in the videos, the police also arrived in front of the Assembly of Novi Sad. Not long after, another group of police officers arrived at the Novi Sad parliament building. Just 15 minutes later, as the journalist Bogosavljević posted on his account on X, more medical supplies arrived.
07.05:XNUMX a.m. a long line of policemen enter #Novi Sad pic.twitter.com/Ksu6Ppwq3b
- zarko bogosavljevic (@zarkobns) February 24, 2025
Source: Nova.rs/N1/021.rs
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