Source: Glas javnosti

The exceptionally long pre-election campaign has just ended. Over twenty political parties or coalitions with the lists of nearly 4,000 candidates for members of Parliament, worked very hard for over two months to convince the voters that the right, the best, even the only answer to all our questions is to vote for their list. We will soon be able to see the effects of their campaign. And soon after that, we will be able to see how the promises made in the campaign are kept. For many Serbian citizens, the promises regarding anti-corruption action, which dominated the campaign, are particularly interesting.

Belgrade - The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Rodoljub Sabic said that the reports of political parties about the funding of the election campaign were documents which should be accessible to the public, regardless of the results of the audit of their content.     

Source: Blic

„After a verbal duel between the applicant and the responsible person, Ms. V.D., the latter ended up in the ER and is currently in hospital.” Believe it or not, this is en excerpt from a statement regarding a complaint I have recently received. What makes this shocking incident even more bizarre is that the individual requesting the information is not just your average citizen, it is somebody who works in the same municipality - in fact, it is one its officials. So, the real cause of this was not only the person's primitivism but something else too, which is, unfortunately, slowly becoming one of our traits - a widely spread animosity towards the people “associated” with various political parties. This is a phenomenon that often jeopardizes even the fundamental functions of the government, especially the application of new laws based on European standards.