The Law on the Origin of Property should be applied equally to everyone, without exceptions and without lists drawn up by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, Serbian media write.

The only question is whether Aleksandar Vučić will allow the public to discover how former poor people from the ranks of the radicals, upon coming to power, became billionaires who drive McLarens, buy Mitsotakis' villa in Athens and whose yachts burn in Montenegro like New Year's fireworks, his interlocutors believe. Today, commenting on the Serbian president's request that the Tax Administration deal with the origin of the property not only of SNS candidates for MPs, but also, as he puts it, the "block list".

There is a "small problem", they say, and that is that there are still no lists of candidates for deputies and that the elections have not been announced, the Telegraph reports.

They also add that Aleksandar Vučić has gone too far again with such a marketing statement, misleading the Tax Administration into believing that it does not know whose property it should audit.

They also note that its jurisdiction in this case is equal to that of 6 million Serbian citizens.

Reacting to the proposal of Novi Sad students that the origin of officials' assets should be controlled, Vučić reacted faster and better on one of his television stations, encouraging the Tax Administration and the Anti-Corruption Agency to work even harder to control the assets of state officials, as well as all candidates for deputies who will be on the electoral lists.

He noted that the Law on Asset Verification exists in Serbia and that it was adopted in the Serbian Parliament five years ago on his initiative, but that the Tax Administration has not worked enough on that law and that they need to work even harder.

He suggested that the Tax Administration review, as he put it, the assets of all 250 candidates from his list and the "blockade list."

"I believe that the blockers will support the proposal of the people's list, which is that all 250 candidates for deputies from the people's and blocker lists be investigated by the Tax Administration. Investigation is the wrong word, but the Tax Administration should take action against everyone and see who the thief is. I will not accept the fact that Jaqimović and Đjilas are honest people, and that I am a thief," Vučić said.

Zlatko Minic from Transparency Serbia believes that with such a statement, Vučić only wants to attract attention, and that his statement is like hot air and nothing more.

"According to the Law on the Origin of Money, anyone can initiate an audit at the Tax Administration. Here, Aleksandar Vučić, like five or six million citizens of Serbia, finds himself responsible for something. But it is not known what he is initiating. I believe that the Tax Administration would be confused by such an initiative, as I am, because they would not know whose property they should audit. That is, there is no list, nor do they know that elections have been announced," Minić added.

When asked how the president already knows that there are people on the list of students who have been illegally enriched, he said that Vučić's statements so far have contained more unfounded claims than supported ones.

"He can say anything, even that he respects the law of gravity and flies around the house in his free time, and he can also cancel the law of gravity, or go towards its authentic interpretation," Minic added.

A student from Valeva, Vladimir Đorđević, sees Vučić's allusion that there are already those on the list of students who have acquired property illegally as another in a series of manipulations, assessing that "neither Milan Radoićić nor Zvonko Veselinović" are on it and will not be.

"I personally support property control of anyone who meddles in politics, and that's how it should be. But just like with legalization, this is a farce. I am convinced that Vucic knows by heart the property records of all his officials and that is why he keeps them," says Djordjevic.

Stefan Janjic, a member of parliament from the Serbia Center party SRCE, believes that if Vucic is already calling for the implementation of the law, it should be applied equally to everyone, without exceptions, without lists compiled by the president of the state, and without labeling political opponents.

"It is particularly problematic to declare someone a thief in advance, before any procedure, which directly violates the presumption of innocence and makes the rule of law meaningless. Unfortunately, this has been the established narrative of the ruling party for years. If there is a sincere intention to verify the origin of assets, then the first on that list should be the head of the executive branch and all those who have had access to public money, budgets and state resources for years. Everything else is political spin and an attempt to scare citizens before the elections," says Janjic.

The president and MP of the Democratic Party, Srdjan Milivojevic, said that there is no problem with the competent state authorities checking the value and origin of his property for the umpteenth time, but that the public should also receive an answer about how the former poor people from among the radicals became billionaires after coming to power.

"Let's see which of the student list representatives bought Mitsotakis' villa in Athens, who became the owner of Kopaonik and Zlatibor, whose godfathers drive Lamborghinis and fall on McLarens, who has Easter eggs and didn't even have a bicycle. Who lives in Jovanka Brozi's villa and who usurped Dedinje. Whose yachts are burning in Montenegro like New Year's fireworks," says Milivojevic, adding that the students are not walking around in 10,000-euro clothes and not drinking 17,000-euro wine, but "Vučić and his bandits."

Branko Milush, a member of parliament from the SSP, also believes that Vučić, with such statements, is insulting the common sense of citizens who know that his party's cadres did not even have a good car at the beginning of the Progressive Party's government, and today they travel on private jets.

He notes that after 13 years of such governance, Serbia is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, and the government is closely linked to criminals.

Professor Radivoje Jovović emphasizes that Vučić, by brutally slandering the student list, is trying to show his self-confidence, that there is nothing questionable regarding the origin of his property and the property of members of his Progressive Party and their supporters.

"However, no one asked him to determine the origin of the property. This is a task for the independent institutions of tomorrow, which will control the property of every public official. In short, I think the right answer to his findings is that no one asked him about anything. He is neither competent nor relevant; let him remember everything he thinks, in order to present it before the court of justice of a liberated Serbia," stressed Jovović, while Dragoljub Anjelković, a political analyst, added that "thieves in danger usually look in the direction of others and shout: 'Stop the thief'."

This, he says, explains the regime's reactions to students' demands to control the property of state officials.

"Vučić proposes that, in parallel with this, in accordance with the existing law on the origin of property, the property of those who would be on the student list be fully controlled. This, like the current legal framework mentioned above, is a complete absurdity, considering that Serbia is a dysfunctional, corrupt and legally criminalized state. In such circumstances where we do not have a history of a legally and fiscally reliable state, any examination of the property of ordinary citizens would be reduced to poaching and even extortion," believes Đanjelković.

According to him, Vučić cunningly equates this with controlling the property of those who run public affairs, and accordingly, the SNS adopted the law on the origin of property several years ago, in order to hide the tycoons and their corrupt people among the masses of ordinary citizens.

The students, he says, are right if they insist on a law focused on those who were, or are now, in power and all persons who are connected to them in family or business terms.

"This makes those who are part of today's SNS interest community, as well as some who were previously in power, tremble," notes Angjelković, warning that people who find themselves on the student list may be exposed to various tricks, despite the fact that they have never held any public office or the possibility of trading influence. /Telegraph/

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