Opposition in RS blocks the work of the National Assembly of RS

Opposition MPs in the National Assembly of RS threatened tonight that they will physically prevent the parliament's work due to non-compliance with laws and the constitution, BN TV reported.

One of the opposition MPs told the Patria agency that the opposition will do everything to prevent the violation of the rules of procedure and laws, which the ruling parties have been doing so far.

“We will not allow the work of the Assembly to be conducted in this manner as long as the law is not respected and as long as the report of the General Service for the Audit of the Public Sector of RS is not put on the agenda. You have in the most brutal way prevented us from discussing one of the key documents – the audit report – said NDP MP Dragan Čavić tonight.

After a day-long debate in which opposition MPs warned that the rules of procedure and the law had been violated, they announced tonight that they “will no longer allow the work of the National Assembly of RS to be conducted in this manner“.

“There will be no more such work and violation of democracy," said Čavić, stating that the opposition will prevent it in all possible ways, as long as answers to parliamentary questions are not given within the prescribed period and as long as the law is not respected and they do not behave as befits a parliament,“ said Čavić.  

Vice-president of the National Assembly of RS Nenad Stevandić, who was chairing the assembly, reacted by calling a half-hour break, but opposition MPs stood in the area where the parliamentary leadership is located to prevent the undemocratic work of the parliament, NAP reports.