Mentioning the names of "controversial businessmen" from Kosovo, Zvonko Veselinović i Milan Radoičić it acts on the MPs of the Serbian Progressive Party as irritating as a red cloak on a bull. Their past work and ties with Aleksandar Vučić are apparently so problematic that Aleksandar Martinović, the former head of the SNS parliamentary group who advanced to the position of Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government, personally took up the defense of their image and actions in the Parliament.
The head of the parliamentary group of the People's Party, Miroslav Aleksić, said that during the debate on the budget rebalancing, the members of the SNS in the Parliament defended with the same zeal Zvonko Veselinović and Milan Radoičić, who are on the "blacklist of American sanctions and suspected of serious crime", as they defended Veljko Belivuk a few years ago.
"They say that Veselinović and Radoičić are Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija, so I guess they are fighting for national interests and are not criminals." Veselinović lives in Novi Sad and Belgrade, and crime has nothing to do with his place of residence. If you engage in crime, then you are a criminal," Aleksic told TV N1.
Veselinović and Radoičić "and how they have connections with the SNS", said Aleksić and assessed that they were neither the first nor the last who served the regime, and then were "let down the drain".
The head of the parliamentary group of the People's Party stated that the facts pointed out by that party's deputy Borislav Novaković about the awarding of jobs paid from the Serbian budget to the companies of Veselinović and Radoičić caused "hysteria of SNS deputies".
"The authorities are most hurt by facing the truth and when you confront them with arguments and they cannot answer, they start with lies and insults," said Aleksic.
He also said that the parliamentary hall, while the MPs of the People's Party are speaking, turns into an arena where the MPs of the majority are constantly shouting, cursing and insulting.
MN/FoNet
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