Brnabic: Meeting between Vucic and the SSP leader took place at request of Djilas

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Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said today that the meeting between President Aleksandar Vucic and SSP leader Dragan Djilas did not represent Vucic playing a political "simultaneous exhibition" and added that the meeting took place at Djilas' request, while Vucic, as the president of all citizens, was supposed to accept it.

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"I think that the meeting is reported anout in an imprecise and bombastic manner. It is not a meeting between Vucic and Djilas as if they are close pals, it is a meeting that came at Djilas' request, with the president of the Republic, now his party is in parliament and the president's role is to accept that meeting," Brnabic told TV Happy.

According to her, Vucic does not need to meet with someone who called him an autocrat, dictator, madman, who insulted him and his family via his media, but he did accept the meeting as the president of all citizens.

In that sense, she recalled that the president was in the past also meeting with all leaders of both parliamentary and non-parliamentary parties.

"The president always tried to pacify the political scene, to talk to everyone, even to the media that brutally attacked him, as well as his family. He did not want to guest on those media, but he always answered their questions and the president's office always invited them to news conferences," said Brnabic.

Asked whether the meeting would reduce rhetorical tension on the political scene, she said that did not depend on the SNS or Vucic.

"The president always tried to talk to everyone, he didn't talk to those who didn't want to talk to him," she said.

Brnabic added that what has is leaving the deepest impression on to her at the moment is that no presidential candidate has congratulated Vucic on winning the election.

According to her, not even Zdravko Ponos, who was Dragan Djilas' candidate and who finished second in the elections, did that.

"The most normal way and the beginning of deflating tensions would be if someone said, 'I congratulate Vucic on the victory, I hope we will succeed in cooperating in the future'. The fact that no one has congratulated is disgraceful, it represents a lack of political culture, but also of basic culture," said the prime minister.

(Telegraf.rs)