“APPLICATION OF THE LAW MEANS THE FALL OF THE REGIME”: How Selaković’s response to the prosecution exposed the nature of the rule of Vučić and the SNS

By stating that Vučić is the real target of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, Selaković was apparently alluding to the American anti-mafia RICO law—it does not only prosecute those who directly participated in criminal acts, but also the one who was at the head of the organization that committed them. And it is known who leads the Progressive Party’s government.

Do you remember Federica Mogherini? She is the former High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, whom Šešelj fiercely insulted in the National Assembly eight years ago.

Today, Mogherini is suspected of corruption from 2021/22 while she was head of the College of Europe. Because of this, she was detained and interrogated for ten hours in Belgium.

“I have full confidence in the judicial system and I am convinced that the College’s procedures will be reviewed,” Mogherini said after leaving the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. “Of course, I will cooperate fully with the authorities.”

I will judge you

On the other side of Europe, Nikola Selaković, the current Minister of Culture of Serbia, was questioned at the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime. He is suspected of two criminal offenses—abuse of official position and falsification of official documents.

This current and former minister of everything told the prosecutors that he would personally arrest them. First, he did not respond to the call from the POOC because he had “smarter things to do,” and then he came twice in front of the building where the prosecutors sit and caused a public scandal by threatening and insulting them for the regime’s cameras.

“They are not just an organized criminal group, they are an autoimmune disease in Serbia,” Selaković honoured the POOC after he was finally heard.

Plowing up the constitutional and legal order

Where is all this leading?

It does not cross Selaković’s mind to cooperate with the prosecutors like Mogherini. Why would he? He is in the Progressive Party’s government; he can do anything. Even not to care at all about the judicial system and laws.

As if driving a bulldozer in a state of significantly diminished capacity, Selaković cries out, plowing up the last remnants of the constitutional and legal order of the Republic of Serbia. However, there is one ‘but’ here…

By stating that he is not the real target of the POOC but Vučić, Selaković was apparently alluding to the American anti-mafia RICO law. Simply put—it is not required that someone directly participated in the criminal acts, but that he was at the head of the organization that committed them.

And since Vučić is the alpha and omega of the Progressive Party’s regime, it is easy to draw the logical sequence in the General Staff affair—Selaković did not do what the POOC accuses him of out of personal whim. On the contrary, the head of state and the entire Cacilato repeatedly demanded the adoption of a lex specialis related to the alienation and gifting of the General Staff.

Thank you very much, Nikola

In all likelihood, Selaković’s appearances have brought Vučić a new headache. Now, more than ever, he must fear every corrupt official from his own ranks. They all only carried out the President’s orders. And haven’t they repeated that so many times?

It is clear to the Progressives—either lawlessness or their fall. At the same time, it is also clear to the citizens of Serbia—either the fall of the regime and the application of the law or the collapse of the state.