At the session of the Judiciary Committee, reports on the work of the prosecutor's offices are being reviewed

On the agenda of the session are the reports of the Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office, specifically the work of public prosecutors in combating crime and protecting constitutionality and legality in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, as well as the reports of the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office, regarding the work of public prosecutors in combating crime and protecting constitutionality and legality in 2023 and 2024.

Most members of the Committee are attending the session, while the Supreme Public Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac did not respond to the invitation to attend. Instead, she sent her closest associates from the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office—prosecutors Zorica Stojšić, Miljko Radisavljević, and Tamara Mirović, according to media reports.

As Politika notes, if the Committee does not adopt these reports on the work of the prosecutors over the past five years, a source from the judiciary says the question will arise whether the Supreme Public Prosecutor, who was appointed by the National Assembly and to whom she is accountable, loses legitimacy.

Failure to adopt the reports and loss of legitimacy would also call her continued tenure into question, as all her further actions would then become uncertain.

Dragan Nikolić, a member of the Judiciary Committee, stated that as a Member of Parliament, he feels deeply offended by the absence of Supreme Public Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac at today’s session of the Judiciary Committee, where the work reports of the prosecutor’s office are being reviewed.

'This shows her great disrespect for the legislative branch… Overall, her behavior represents an attempt to form a fourth branch of power—the prosecutorial one, which is unacceptable,' Nikolić said, criticizing the actions of the prosecutor’s office.

He emphasized that Dolovac is 'first among equals,' but has been at the head of the prosecutor’s office for 16 years and embodies it personally.

'The citizens of Serbia do not deserve such behavior. The citizens who elected me as a Member of Parliament for my fifth term would say that these reports should not be adopted. I will vote against them,' Nikolić stressed, Politika reports.

Dolovac has been at the head of the Serbian prosecutor’s office since 2010, which has been in a chaotic state over the past year, although even before that it could not boast of strong results—quite the contrary.