Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabić stated that the primary condition for the academic community to receive full salaries and for establishing enrollment quotas for higher education institutions in Serbia is the resumption and compensation of classes.
In an interview with Kurir, she questioned University of Belgrade Rector Vladan Đokić about why they insist on enrolling a new generation of students “if they couldn’t even provide lectures, knowledge, and exams for the current ones they have.”
“It’s obvious that a large part of all this was about money. My question is, if you’re fighting so hard for a new generation of freshmen, how will you organize entrance exams, because that’s also an exam, isn’t it? So, are the faculties blocked or not? But when it comes to money, suddenly you can organize an exam, and when students’ interests are at stake, then you can’t,” said Ana Brnabić.
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Brnabić Criticizes Protests and Opposition
The Parliament Speaker assessed that the past seven months will be remembered as “months of terror,” during which students, for the first time since World War II, believed they were a privileged group with all rights.
“They occupied and privatized state faculties, and they are now preventing other students from entering those state faculties! We truly haven’t seen such scenes since World War II and the era of Nazism. In its essence, it is a Nazi ideology where you don’t allow someone who has a different opinion from you to exist,” Brnabić contended.
Commenting on the recent local elections in Zaječar and Kosjerić, she added that she was extremely pleased with the results of the Serbian Progressive Party, stating that the party achieved better results in both percentages and absolute numbers, and that student protests and demands for general elections “erased” the parliamentary opposition.
“The blockaders on the streets don’t have their representatives in institutions, so they have to wage an extra-institutional struggle, which is always difficult for any democracy. The problem is also that the parliamentary opposition knows it doesn’t have excessive legitimacy and then tries to impose itself through aggression instead of politics,” Brnabić stated.
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Source: NIN, Foto: Tanjug