Brnabic on Stefanovic and Hrkalovic: It's up to prosecution to decide who will be arrested and convicted

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Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabic today did not want to comment on the accusations made by Dijana Hrkalovic against Minister of Defense Nebojsa Stefanovic.

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She said that it was the job of the prosecution.

"It may have happened in the past that parties decided who will be arrested, convicted and blackmailed. The SNS is not that party, but a party that is here to build the institutions of the Republic of Serbia and implement reforms in the field of the rule of law, which we showed when we pushed through constitutional amendments for independent judiciary and independent prosecutor's office," Brnabic told reporters when asked what would be done when it comes to the accusations made against Stefanovic.

When a journalist remarked that she said the same thing earlier when the accusations came even from the party, Brnabic reiterated that she believes in institutions, that she said that before, and is doing it again.

"I believe in the state and institutions," Brnabic said when a journalists noted that she is the prime minister, and Stefanovic is in her government.

"As soon as the institutions do their job, I say again I believe in the rule of law, as soon as the institutions do their job, I will do mine," she said after the ceremony at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Belgrade, which marked its 74th anniversary by launching unique in the Balakans Implantology Research Center, with laboratories and educational facilites.

(Telegraf.rs)