NO CHANGE OF MAYOR, NO QUORUM: SNS MEMBERS BOYCOTT SESSION ON REMOVING BELGRADE MAYOR AFTER ATTACK ON COUNCILOR!

A session of the Belgrade City Assembly, which was supposed to consider the opposition’s proposal to remove Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Šapić, was not held because councilors from the ruling majority failed to secure a quorum.

City Assembly President Nikola Nikodijević said at the start of the session that 47 of the 110 councilors were present in the chamber.

Nikodijević scheduled the continuation of the session for November 23 at 10 a.m.

On October 7, opposition councilors submitted a request to convene an extraordinary session of the Belgrade City Assembly, proposing Šapić’s removal following an incident in which he physically attacked Tatjana Mićić, a councilor from the Kreni-Promeni movement.

The request was signed by 41 councilors — 21 from the Kreni-Promeni movement, along with representatives of the Green-Left Front, the Movement of Free Citizens, the Democratic Party, the People’s Movement of Serbia, New Face of Serbia, the “We — Voice from the People” movement and the Environmental Uprising movement.

Kreni-Promeni President Savo Manojlović said ahead of today’s session that whether the assembly majority votes to remove Šapić depends on Aleksandar Vučić’s political courage.

“Whether the assembly majority will make a farce out of securing or withholding a quorum is up to them, and they will have to answer for it. Whether the assembly majority votes to remove Aleksandar Šapić depends on Aleksandar Vučić’s political courage, and that is not up to us. Whether they will have the courage to vote for his removal or try to force him to resign is also up to them,” Manojlović said.

Manojlović also said that Šapić had two pistols on him during the confrontation with Tatjana Mićić and that, even if he has a permit to carry firearms, the law does not allow him to carry two weapons at the same time.

As a reminder, Tatjana Mićić, a Kreni-Promeni councilor in the city parliament, was injured on the evening of September 28 and was diagnosed with a fracture of the left nasal bone. She told N1 that same evening that she had encountered Šapić while walking in the Bežanijska Kosa neighborhood and that, following a verbal argument, he struck her on the nose.

At a press conference the following day, Šapić denied hitting Mićić, claiming instead that he had merely pushed her away when her husband moved toward him.

The Kreni-Promeni movement soon responded to the mayor’s statement by publishing a video on social media showing him striking Tatjana Mićić while she was recording their argument on her phone.

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