Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić today asked the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime to inform the public whether it has taken action against individuals who, in his words, collaborate with drug cartels and "serve up lies" through certain media outlets with the aim of influencing public opinion and changing the country's political course.
In an extraordinary address to citizens from the Presidency of Serbia, Vučić called on the prosecution to "take a good look" at the correspondence between the alleged leader of the Kavac criminal clan, Radoje Zvicer, and lawyer Dejan Lazarević via the Sky app.
"I have reliable information that the Sky correspondence has been in the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime for several years. I demand that the public hear who Radoje Zvicer ordered this to, who in the media he influenced, and that those who participated in it be punished as prescribed, or that they tell me that I made this up and then I will confront them with evidence from Europol in Lyon," said the Serbian President.
Vučić added that he has never had or used the Sky app.
"No one from my family. If that's not true, let the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime announce it and I'm no longer president," Vučić said.
He rejected as incorrect the allegations made by the Vice President of the Freedom and Justice Party, Marinika Tepić, that his face was on packages of cocaine seized in Tahiti and showed photographs showing that it was the face of Colombian President Gustavo Pedro.
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Asked about the petition from academic networks and organizations to call early parliamentary elections, Vučić said that there will be elections "when the time comes for it."
"It's up to the competent institutions that they want to overthrow. I promise that they will have early elections when the competent institutions assess that it will be good for the country," Vučić said.
He added that Serbia yesterday received a report from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), which, in his words, is essentially in line with the proposed amendments to the law on the voter register.
"There is one important question that remains, whether it will be a permanent body or will it be replaced by the Republic Election Commission after the elections. It will be important to resolve this in the next few days and then proceed to the parliamentary procedure, to adopt all three media laws, to continue the procedure for electing members for the regulatory agency and to adopt a new law on the election of deputies, i.e. on a unified voter register," said the President of Serbia.
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