At the three-hour sitting, MPs can get an answer from the Prime Minister or ministers, live and immediately. And not only that. Afterwards, they have extra time to ask additional questions and in the end, give a final comment. In that way, as required by law, the National Assembly would exercise its oversight role of […]
How can an average citizen, or even an MP, understand whether the current parliamentary convocation has debited us for a lot or little? How much do the public know about such loans anyway? Here is an illustration of the worth of two billion euros: Aleksandar Vučić, the President of Serbia, has recently announced that the […]
We will not go too far into the past, only to the last Ana Brnabić’s exposé and to the five-hour speech delivered by Aleksandar Vučić in 2016, when the length of the exposé was inversely proportional to the length of the mandate. MPs of the Serbian Progressive Party, as well as the Prime Minister herself, […]
“If we would just count the number of requests only very few citizens are among the applicants for information of public importance.”
“We have removed 16 acts from the agenda by majority voting. I believe this is not a model for us to deal with the urgent procedure, for us to physically win over the government representatives or the government as a whole by majority voting. But we have managed to reduce this percentage from huge 66% to also substantial 44% proposals of the acts, which was the percentage of laws scrutinised under the urgent procedure in the last year.”
The amendments of the Republic of Serbia Criminal Code were initiated by the Foundation “Tijana Juric”, but also due to the needs to prescribe the harsher punishment for offenders who are recidivists and multiple recidivists. Namely, on 9 November 2017, the Foundation submitted the initiative to amend the Criminal Code supported by exactly 158,460 citizens’ […]
