Ex-ministers reluctant to return apartments

Ministers, state secretaries are yet to move into their official residences, as their predecessors haven't moved out.

Izvor: Blic

Monday, 18.08.2008.

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Ministers, state secretaries are yet to move into their official residences, as their predecessors haven't moved out. Daily Blic writes that the General Secretariat of the new government says that only 26 official flats have been vacated. Ex-ministers reluctant to return apartments Former Trade Minister Predrag Bubalo, although not satisfied with the accommodation provided to him by the state, says that he is still “living in a student flat” with his family “all on top of each other”, because he did not have time to “get things sorted out.” "Isn’t it normal to let me make other arrangements and then move out. I was on vacation for a month and I haven’t been able to finish my new apartment… You are asking me as if I wanted to steal something, but I really have no intention of keeping that flat. It will be returned, that goes without saying, all in line with the law,” Bubalo said. Even though the government’s General Secretariat told Blic that the size of flats ranged from 40 to 120 square meters, all ministers and state secretaries that this daily contacted described their living quarters as “pigeon holes” or “little flats”. "I did not even use it. I might have slept there ten or so times. It was like a pigeon hole in the attic, a two bedroom flat. I could have returned the keys earlier, but the government hadn’t formed a Housing Commission, so they initially suggested I leave my keys with the janitor. In the end, I sent my daughter to return the keys, and that was that,” said former Infrastructure Minister Velimir Ilic.

Ex-ministers reluctant to return apartments

Former Trade Minister Predrag Bubalo, although not satisfied with the accommodation provided to him by the state, says that he is still “living in a student flat” with his family “all on top of each other”, because he did not have time to “get things sorted out.”

"Isn’t it normal to let me make other arrangements and then move out. I was on vacation for a month and I haven’t been able to finish my new apartment… You are asking me as if I wanted to steal something, but I really have no intention of keeping that flat. It will be returned, that goes without saying, all in line with the law,” Bubalo said.

Even though the government’s General Secretariat told Blic that the size of flats ranged from 40 to 120 square meters, all ministers and state secretaries that this daily contacted described their living quarters as “pigeon holes” or “little flats”.

"I did not even use it. I might have slept there ten or so times. It was like a pigeon hole in the attic, a two bedroom flat. I could have returned the keys earlier, but the government hadn’t formed a Housing Commission, so they initially suggested I leave my keys with the janitor. In the end, I sent my daughter to return the keys, and that was that,” said former Infrastructure Minister Velimir Ilić.

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