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00:00:20Good evening, N1 daily news begins. I am our hands are tied. At a Tanja Veselinović, this is the news
00:00:24of the day.
00:00:28Ursula von der Leyen bypasses Serbia on her tour of the Western
00:00:32Balkans in October. The European People's Party initiates
00:00:35proceedings for the exclusion of the Serbian Progressive Party. Is
00:00:39Brussels changing its course towards the government in Belgrade or is it just
00:00:43one of a series of rebukes? They
00:00:45partially react to that. They no longer see a stable partner in Vučić or
00:00:49his party.
00:00:53And other topics in the news
00:00:54tonight.
00:00:59The Republic Electoral Commission proclaimed
00:01:02the electoral list "European Serbia, Marinika
00:01:06Tepić, Zdravko Ponoš". Why are several officials of SSP and
00:01:09Srce not on the list, and what is their future in these
00:01:12parties?
00:01:16They remain comrades-in-arms, and as for us, absolutely
00:01:20yes. All employees have always been forced
00:01:23to go to SNS rallies. Now they are forcing them to sign for
00:01:26the SNS list, they announced that they will give them
00:01:30filled-in ballots, and that they will have to return
00:01:33empty ones. The "Kreni-Promeni" movement records
00:01:37more testimonies than ever
00:01:38many is that from employees in public and even private companies about
00:01:41pressures to vote for SNS and to
00:01:45gather sure
00:01:46votes.
00:01:50According to the scenario from Jovina Gimnazija in Novi Sad, a showdown with
00:01:53teachers in Subotica. 12 professors of the Polytechnic
00:01:57School were fired.
00:02:01the coalition From Monday, the weather will be mostly cloudy with a drop in temperature,
00:02:05tomorrow up to 25, from Tuesday up to
00:02:0820°.
00:02:14Are some new winds blowing from Brussels or is it just an
00:02:17impression? The President of the European Commission, Ursula
00:02:21von der Leyen, on her tour of the Western Balkans, will not
00:02:24stop in Belgrade, allegedly due to the ongoing election
00:02:28campaign. Some European media, however, interpret this as
00:02:32a change in attitude towards the government, primarily due to the state's role in
00:02:35organizing Ratko Mladić's funeral. At the same time, for
00:02:39the same reason, the European People's Party is initiating
00:02:42proceedings against its member, the Serbian Progressive
00:02:47a different Serbia, we must get used to Party.
00:02:52The traditionally cordial greeting between the President of the European Commission and the Serbian
00:02:55President will be absent during the election campaign because
00:02:59Ursula von der Leyen decided to skip Serbia on her Balkan tour.
00:03:03Is it a political message? Aleksandar Vučić
00:03:07says that the elections are just an elegant way for her
00:03:10to cancel the visit, adding that von der Leyen does not want to
00:03:14meet with a government in a technical mandate. There isn't much
00:03:18sense to it. There aren't at that
00:03:21moment you have legal institutions,
00:03:24the government is legal, the acting President
00:03:28of the Republic is legal, but there are no legitimate institutions anymore because we are in
00:03:31an election campaign. They will wait for the elections to end, then they will work
00:03:35with whoever wins. Is that really so? German
00:03:39press writes that the European Union has lost patience with
00:03:42the authorities in Serbia, and even the expulsion of the
00:03:46Serbian Progressive Party from the European political family is being considered.
00:03:50We have started a process against the Serbian Progressive Party, the voices regarding
00:03:53this in the EPP are now very
00:03:56strong.
00:03:59Enough is enough. We have waited too long. The Serbian Progressive
00:04:02Party has led Serbia for almost a decade, sitting on multiple
00:04:05diplomatic chairs and, according to experts, making most
00:04:09decisions against the will of Brussels. Why is patience
00:04:13breaking now? A professor of political and cultural sociology from
00:04:17London believes that the turning point was practically
00:04:20the state funeral of a convicted war
00:04:23criminal.
00:04:26We should not speculate too much about the motives of people from the European Union, it's.
00:04:30quite obvious. What's interesting is that Vučić and his party seem
00:04:34unaware that they crossed a civilizational line with this
00:04:37funeral. This alienated Serbia both from its neighbors in the region
00:04:40and from the European Union. The funeral,
00:04:43he says, was used by the government to present it as
00:04:46practically a pre-election
00:04:48rally.
00:04:51Meanwhile, Vučić openly says that the European
00:04:54Union will not accept Serbia, and before the elections, he
00:04:57sharpens his rhetoric towards Brussels officials. Here's what he said
00:05:01after the Commissioner for Enlargement canceled her visit to
00:05:05Serbia after Mladić's funeral. Her comments bother
00:05:08me. That bothers me. I won't let you humiliate
00:05:12our country. And don't lie, and don't
00:05:15lie. Defiant messages serve well in a pre-election
00:05:18campaign, says Gordi, but they are dangerous for the reputation
00:05:22of the Serbian Progressive Party in Brussels.
00:05:25I think that we truly have an indication that all these things, provocations, demonstrations
00:05:29of confidence by the regime are actually an indicator of their weakness
00:05:32and insecurity. And if we return to the European Union, they
00:05:36partially react to this, they no longer see a stable partner in Vučić or
00:05:39his party. Not only that. As he says, the fall
00:05:43of Viktor Orbán in Hungary has fundamentally changed
00:05:47regional geopolitics.
00:05:50Now the European Union no longer has to worry about satisfying Orbán and his
00:05:53satellites. Orbán is history, as is his entire network of far-right movements
00:05:57across Europe, that's no longer a factor. Another thing that
00:06:00I think is happening is that the European Union is not convinced that it can provide them with
00:06:04the Jadar project. All the things that he had that kept them on his
00:06:07side no longer work. A similar policy once
00:06:11led Serbia to international isolation and sanctions, the professor
00:06:15reminds. Nevertheless, he feels a great difference in the mood
00:06:19of voters, he doesn't see that the current generation is ready to pay
00:06:22that price as the one in the 90s, because he says today there is a
00:06:26clear alternative. Miodrag
00:06:29Sovilj, N1
00:06:31Belgrade.
00:06:39The Republic Electoral Commission today proclaimed the electoral list.
00:06:42European Serbia, Marinika Tepić, Zdravko Ponoš for
00:06:46the upcoming early parliamentary elections. What surprised
00:06:51some of the more prominent members of the Party of Freedom and Justice from Serbia
00:06:55Centre, Borko Stefanović, Jelena Milošević, Vladimir
00:06:58Vrsajkov, Goran Petrović, Peđa Mitrović and Mila
00:07:02Popović, as well as Boško Šindić and Slobodan Petrović
00:07:05from Srce, decided to support the students. How will this
00:07:09affect their stance? status in the parties, and how will it affect
00:07:14in general?
00:07:17Unlike some others, they brought all the letters
00:07:20to the submission of the list, but unlike some others, they did not
00:07:23bring all the members. That supporting students is a better
00:07:27choice than participating in elections is believed by at least six officials
00:07:31of the SSP and two members of the presidency of Serbia
00:07:34Centre, as well as the leaders of those parties. A part of the people
00:07:38believed that they should not participate, that is their
00:07:40right. Those who want to participate, who believe that the
00:07:44best way to increase turnout,
00:07:47the possibility to vote for a European coalition,
00:07:51a national option, that one
00:07:54central list, are on this list. I think that if we want to create
00:08:00the fact that democracy also implies the right to
00:08:03a different opinion. And what do those who exercised the right
00:08:07to a different opinion and a different decision say? Nothing,
00:08:11we tried to contact some of them, but we didn't
00:08:14get any comments. The leader of the Party of Freedom and Justice has only words
00:08:18of praise for those who left the list of European Serbia. He says they are
00:08:22great fighters against the current regime. They remain
00:08:25comrades-in-arms. And as for us, absolutely yes. And at
00:08:29Serbia Centre, they explain that at the last session of the party's presidency,
00:08:33they were unanimous in the decision to go to the elections, but some
00:08:36still changed their minds. That is their legitimate
00:08:39decision. Uh, there were no exclusions from
00:08:43party membership, none of that happened. I have
00:08:46the impression that things, that things looked much more dramatic in the media
00:08:50than in the parties. Of course, these are people who
00:08:53deserve full respect. Respected or not, it is not entirely
00:08:57clear what the future engagement of those who did not
00:09:00agree with their party's decision to participate in
00:09:03the upcoming elections will be. And can the pro-European list count on
00:09:06voters respecting its decision? Now in this
00:09:10situation, a referendum. which under such
00:09:13pressure, I do not see that
00:09:17the opposition parties who are determined to go out
00:09:21can create space for themselves. Simply, it will be the same atmosphere as it was on the 24th
00:09:25for that part of the opposition that came out. There will be more talk about
00:09:28why you are coming out than what you are offering, who the people are and what is being
00:09:31done, so I think it will be difficult for them to escape that discourse that is now
00:09:35imposed on them. First, the parliamentary opposition announced the formation of a united
00:09:38bloc, then three columns appeared, now
00:09:42two remain, while in the meantime, as many as six
00:09:45parties from the last parliamentary assembly decided to withdraw
00:09:49from the election race and offer support to the student
00:09:52list. Nenad Nešić, N1,
00:09:55Belgrade. The leader of the United
00:09:58Serbia list, Aleksandar Vučić, continued his campaign by visiting villages across
00:10:02Serbia. In a video clip, he said that instead of changing
00:10:06the government, it is much more important to, as he says, change
00:10:10ourselves and listen to the citizens.
00:10:13What I have seen all these past days is that the citizens of Serbia want
00:10:17to change a lot of things. They are satisfied
00:10:19with the progress, but they are not satisfied with
00:10:22the care shown for them and for... we
00:10:25will have to show that we have understood our
00:10:29citizens, to change those who are arrogant,
00:10:32haughty, to change ourselves, everyone, because
00:10:35people do not want to play with their future, they do not want to
00:10:39give their trust to those for whom they know would take them back to
00:10:42the past, but they want to see us differently, this is my
00:10:44message to everyone in Serbia who is in
00:10:47power, that there will be great
00:10:50changes, but that we will have to work even harder, even
00:10:54more. that we will undoubtedly have to
00:10:57respect the word of our people, to listen to them
00:11:01and to serve them.
00:11:03Vučić today reiterated his invitation
00:11:07to the leader of the student list Ilija Srdanović for a TV
00:11:11debate. He stated that it can be whenever he wants and
00:11:14wherever he wants. Srdanović responded in a short video
00:11:18post on Instagram, along with which he wrote "you don't have enough
00:11:22credit for this call".
00:11:25Ignorance is very
00:11:26painful.
00:11:29The students are continuing their bicycle tour across
00:11:32Serbia. The group cycling through Vojvodina has arrived in
00:11:36Subotica, while those cycling through Central and
00:11:40Southern Serbia have entered Kraljevo. In those two
00:11:42cities are N1 reporters, Ina Džakula in Subotica,
00:11:46Nenad Božović in Kraljevo. And Nenad,
00:11:50what was the reception like in Kraljevo? They raised
00:11:53their voices. Tanja, as you said,
00:11:57the cyclists arrived about 15 minutes ago and were greeted
00:12:01here at the Square of Serbian Warriors in Kraljevo. We will now
00:12:04show you approximately what it looks like in the square. At this moment,
00:12:08speeches are being given from an improvised stage.
00:12:11There are candidates for members of parliament who are on
00:12:15the student list. At this moment, the high school professor
00:12:19Vesna Seničić is speaking, but
00:12:21other candidates will also speak. We assume
00:12:25some of the students as well. They were greeted just as we saw them in
00:12:28other cities, with flares,
00:12:32through a line of people and those usual
00:12:35customary shouts that
00:12:38we hear at every student
00:12:42protest. What awaits these cyclists
00:12:46is that they will go to Vranje, then
00:12:49from Vranje, they will return again via Niš
00:12:52to Kragujevac where it is held.
00:13:04in this tour that goes through Central,
00:13:07Western and Southern Serbia. Now, if I were to make a
00:13:11comparison between the tour to Strasbourg and this one now, how would you
00:13:14describe it? Well, it can't be compared, this is more
00:13:17now we are again approaching our people, to remind them that
00:13:21there is a constitution, to remind them
00:13:24that. a thing that can be voted for, that our list is
00:13:27the right thing, that we will fight against corruption, to free
00:13:30the judiciary, so it cannot be compared in that sense, in
00:13:34some sense, how difficult it is, yes it can be compared, but that's not
00:13:37important, nothing is difficult, it's important to revive the awareness that it can
00:13:41be better, that it's not just "oh be quiet, it could be worse," no, it can absolutely
00:13:45be better, here we are to show that it can be better, here is our list that says it can
00:13:48be better, because on that list there are you started
00:13:52this tour in that campaign, or rather. under
00:13:55the slogan "Guardians of the Constitution". And now, what does it look like, you go
00:13:58on country roads, you cycle on some that are not so
00:14:01busy, what does it look like when you pass through those areas, and
00:14:05this was still a more rural area? Well, it depends, the route
00:14:09changes every day, and today, for example, we traveled on the highway and on those
00:14:12country roads,
00:14:15then as guardians of the constitution, we show ourselves on the highway and on those country
00:14:18roads, so I can say
00:14:22the route varies.
00:14:41That's what interests me, the people who live in those areas, what did you notice, did you notice anything about them? Well, we noticed
00:14:45smiles, we noticed that maybe they were somehow
00:14:48surprised to see us, as if we were some mythical creatures, as if
00:14:51we were, probably we are a bit distorted in all media.
00:15:25impressions from this part of the journey. Once again, I want to
00:15:28reiterate, we are at the Square of Serbian Warriors in Kraljevo. The square
00:15:32here is quite full, the students, the cyclists, were welcomed.
00:15:36At this moment, the speakers are addressing
00:15:40the audience. We heard Nenad Božović, that's
00:15:43what the welcome for the student cyclists in Kraljevo looks like, and now we go to Ina
00:15:47Džakula in Subotica, there they have just
00:15:50arrived cyclists who are visiting
00:15:53Vojvodina. Ina, what is currently
00:15:55happening?
00:16:01you can see in the picture what's happening, I believe you can hear me. So,
00:16:05here is a, I would say, very
00:16:08euphoric atmosphere. Just a few minutes ago,
00:16:11cyclists arrived, so they came on two wheels from
00:16:14Kikinda, early this morning they covered 90
00:16:17km, they stopped at
00:16:20nearby places on the roads where people greeted them
00:16:24and they came, so to Subotica, that is their
00:16:28final destination for today,
00:16:30they will also spend the night there, and you see, so
00:16:34how the residents of Subotica greeted them, so... a warm
00:16:38welcome with ovations, with applause, with the famous
00:16:41chants of "pumpa" and "students win", which is also the name
00:16:45of their "Lice,sk" list, but also with
00:16:48this song which has somehow, let's say, marked their
00:16:52wonderful journey. Today is the fourth day of this
00:16:56ten-day tour, "Guardians of the Constitution" as the students
00:16:59called it, and so you see what the current
00:17:03atmosphere is like. Before this, there was a
00:17:07pre-election rally organized right here in Prozinka Park in
00:17:11Subotica. At that pre-election rally,
00:17:14some of the candidates from the student list were actually
00:17:18presented. The gathered crowd was addressed first by the geological
00:17:20engineer, Zoran Đajić, who became known to the public
00:17:24for being a characteristic public speaker,
00:17:28a commentator on the circumstances under which the water tower fell.
00:17:31After him, Nemanja Đurić from
00:17:34the judiciary trade union also spoke, and
00:17:38certainly also another candidate, Dejan
00:17:42Đoškić, who is an economist professor. I suggest
00:17:46that you listen to what they told the gathered crowd
00:17:49at the pre-election rally before this welcome of the
00:17:53students. A wise man
00:17:57said, if you want to destroy a
00:18:00nation, it is not necessary to have a conquering
00:18:04army that will come and subjugate that
00:18:07country, it is enough to just convince the
00:18:11people in that country, in that nation, that
00:18:15corruption is
00:18:15normal.
00:18:24when they appoint that someone
00:18:27undeservingly, just because they are politically suitable,
00:18:31a party member, loyal,
00:18:34but lack sufficient knowledge.
00:18:38he will most often know that he doesn't know, he
00:18:41feels that he doesn't belong there, he knows that
00:18:44he would never be in that position if it weren't for
00:18:48those who put him
00:18:49there,
00:18:52then what do we think, to whom is he loyal? Is he
00:18:55loyal to his colleagues, is he loyal to his
00:18:59institution, is he loyal to
00:19:03society and the state?
00:19:05No, he is then loyal only to...
00:19:10that we never again have the burning
00:19:14of a prosecutor's
00:19:15car,
00:19:21that we have a judiciary that is ready to
00:19:24stand up to anyone who breaks
00:19:27the law.
00:19:30That is what the student list will bring,
00:19:34that is what we as candidates, that... program that
00:19:38the student list has, we will only
00:19:41implement it.
00:19:46That's what was conveyed from the
00:19:49stage, and the current atmosphere is like this: a few
00:19:52minutes ago, the cyclists arrived, those who, as I said, came on two wheels,
00:19:56started today from Kikinda, arrived in Subotica, covered 90 km
00:20:00and currently a folk dance is being performed, and this is the atmosphere
00:20:04of the pre-election rally.
00:21:08So you heard what it was like, this
00:21:12is the reception for the students, the cyclists,
00:21:15certainly for the citizens who cycled. Today is
00:21:18therefore the final destination. Subotica, they continue their journey tomorrow
00:21:22to Sombor, but first they will actually
00:21:25spend the night here and therefore continue their
00:21:28journey tomorrow morning.
00:21:31And we heard Ina Džakula and Nenad Božević, this is what the reception for
00:21:35the students, the cyclists in Kraljevo and
00:21:37Subotica looks like.
00:21:39And as part of the election campaign, the president of the Socialist Party of Serbia,
00:21:43the leader of the "Factor of Stability" list, Ivica Dačić,
00:21:47presented the younger members of that party. He states that
00:21:50socialists pass on their political values from generation
00:21:54to generation. The Socialist Party of Serbia,
00:21:57like in the Bible, a burning bush that burns but does not
00:22:00burn up, we leave the flame for future generations
00:22:04of socialists and socialists, said
00:22:07Dačić.
00:22:10New DSS today sends a message that it is against
00:22:13the recognition of same-sex marriages. The president of that party,
00:22:17Miloš Jovanović, claims that Serbia's entry into the European Union
00:22:20implies the recognition of same-sex marriages, adding that for
00:22:24the Authentic Right coalition, whose leader he is in the
00:22:28elections, such a thing is unacceptable. He reminds
00:22:31that in the Constitution of Serbia, marriage is defined as a union
00:22:35of a man and a woman.
00:22:38The People's Party will participate in the parliamentary elections in a coalition with
00:22:42the "Mi snaga Naroda" movement, Branimir Nestorović, and two
00:22:46Russian minority parties, confirmed the president of that party,
00:22:50Vladimir Gajić. Gajić says that the coalition agreement should
00:22:54be certified tomorrow, after which the collection of signatures for
00:22:57the electoral list would begin. At the same time, Aleksandar
00:23:00Vulin's Socialist Movement will definitively not be part of that
00:23:03coalition. Gajić also said that Branimir Nestorović's
00:23:07health condition is improving and that
00:23:10Nestorović confirmed the agreed composition of the
00:23:12coalition.
00:23:17As the elections approach, the pressure on citizens, and
00:23:21especially on employees in public enterprises, increases. Lists are being
00:23:25compiled for door-to-door campaigning, for voting, and for
00:23:28collecting sure votes. The "Kreni Promeni" movement, which has
00:23:32enabled citizens to report such types of
00:23:35pressure and offers legal assistance and advice on
00:23:39how to act in such situations, says that there are
00:23:41more reports than ever before, and that employees in the private
00:23:45sector are also
00:23:47subjected to pressure.
00:23:50Letters to the "Report Blackmail" address, which was opened by "Kreni Promeni", come from
00:23:53public enterprises. However, as the campaign heats up, the
00:23:57pressures expand. What distinguishes these
00:24:01reports from previous ones, when party rallies were organized, is
00:24:05that this time there is also a large number of reports from
00:24:08private enterprises, not just from the public
00:24:12sector. And as for the public sector, this time,
00:24:15the pressures were drastically greater from
00:24:19superiors towards employees. A large
00:24:22number of them reported that after they refused to sign
00:24:26for the Progressives' list or refused to
00:24:29participate in door-to-door campaigning because they were being forced
00:24:33to, they simply lost their jobs or their
00:24:37contracts were terminated. Respected Infostan workers went organized
00:24:40to Vračar municipality to give their signatures to SNS and who knows who
00:24:44else, because we heard that several fake citizen groups were established who
00:24:48present themselves as students, so it is very possible they signed for them too.
00:24:51They went there towards the end of working hours in organized groups, so not
00:24:55all together, so it wouldn't be discovered that they were organized. The quota was
00:24:59up to 100 workers, of which the legal department could organize twelve
00:25:03of them. The main organizer is, as always, the general
00:25:06director, known for his presence at SNS stands in Vračar
00:25:10and as an usher at last year's SNS rally in
00:25:12Niš. Reports arrive in cycles, as soon
00:25:16as some Progressive activity is announced, pressure arrives.
00:25:20Not just for rallies, but also for conducting campaigns, and in the form
00:25:24of instructions for election day. Dear Sir/Madam,
00:25:27my acquaintance works at Simpo in Bujanovac, she is under
00:25:31enormous pressure to support SNS. All
00:25:35employees have always been forced to go to SNS rallies. Now they
00:25:38are forcing them to sign for the SNS list. They announced that
00:25:42they will give them filled-in ballots, and that they will have
00:25:45to return empty ones.
00:25:48Employees rarely turn to unions, from which they say that everything
00:25:51is a consequence of a bad labor law that gives workers no
00:25:55rights. For us, as a union, in such
00:25:58situations, it is only to appeal that
00:26:02they contact us, that we will do our best as a union,
00:26:06an organization that deals with the protection of workers' rights, to help
00:26:09them. I'm not sure how successful we can
00:26:12be in all of that, if
00:26:15you know that someone's contract will be
00:26:18terminated after three months, meaning
00:26:22meeting held on Saturday, the superior
00:26:25jokingly asked who we were voting for. A guy said
00:26:29for students. His contract will not be extended, he works until
00:26:32the end of the month, allegedly he works well. The company is otherwise connected
00:26:36with Siniša Mali and Ana Brnabić, the owner
00:26:39is a drug dealer, google it. I'm looking for another
00:26:42job. The assistance offered by "Kreni Promeni" is legal and
00:26:46free, but the movement has also dedicated itself to international
00:26:49institutions, as well as collecting
00:26:52data. Uh, "Kreni Promeni" therefore now has an enormous
00:26:55database with the names,
00:26:59surnames, and positions of Progressives who have
00:27:02been, especially during the past year, exerting pressure on
00:27:05citizens. We contacted the Commissioner for the Protection
00:27:09of Equality, simply to see what their response would be. Their response was,
00:27:13they sent us a form, so
00:27:16people who report need to stand behind it with their name and surname data.
00:27:20They simply do not understand or do not want to
00:27:23understand why citizens do not want to, even though I must emphasize
00:27:27that citizens introduce themselves to us with their name and surname, so they do not hide their identity from
00:27:30us, but they simply insist and ask that their identity be protected from the public.
00:27:34Odir is before more than
00:27:37500 complaints from citizens with evidence that they were blackmailed when it came to
00:27:41elections, and these complaints were supported by either
00:27:44audio or video recordings. Žina
00:27:47Tatalović, N1
00:27:49Belgrade.
00:27:56In the continuation of the diary, this
00:27:58story.
00:28:01What did the deaths of Stefan Smiljanić at the construction site
00:28:05in Žička Street in Belgrade mean, according to his family members and
00:28:09friends?
00:28:14Before that, about the conflict with educators
00:28:17in a vocational school in Subotica,
00:28:21a scenario from Jovina Gymnasium, parents and
00:28:24professors claim that since the beginning of the school year at the Polytechnic School,
00:28:28at least 12 professors have lost their jobs, and that they were
00:28:31informed about it just before the beginning of the school
00:28:34year. Master of Forestry Engineering
00:28:38Milan Batinić, for three years, taught vocational
00:28:42subjects in the field of forestry at the Polytechnic
00:28:45School in Subotica. On the eve of the beginning of the new school year,
00:28:48he lost his job.
00:28:51On August 31st, I went to school, for three days I asked
00:28:55in the secretariat if there was any contract, there was no contract.
00:28:59After consulting with a lawyer, I was informed that when the
00:29:02contract expires, i.e., on August 31st, concluding with that, from September 1st, I
00:29:06am no longer employed. Despite asking for days before
00:29:10the beginning of the school year about the
00:29:12contract, he did not receive an answer and
00:29:16he is not the only one. As far as I am informed, 12 people were
00:29:19left, that's already a double-digit number. What I know
00:29:23is that their contracts also expired, but as far as
00:29:27I am informed, they received the notification a few days before
00:29:30the beginning of the school year. The contract was not renewed, just like
00:29:33mine, civil engineer Pal Gabor Berček, who worked at the
00:29:37school for five years and taught in two
00:29:40languages, also lost his job and
00:29:44without explanation. The director did not consider it necessary
00:29:48to confirm or deny my professional qualities, let alone
00:29:51explain her decision at the last minute before the beginning of
00:29:55the school year, leaving me without a job, practically on the street,
00:29:58and thus without a stable existence. Today I cannot
00:30:02qualify such behavior of the head of one of the best schools
00:30:05in this field, except that I can suspect that behind all this are
00:30:09reasons of a political nature. A mother from the parents' council tells
00:30:13us that the dismissal of teaching staff affects
00:30:16students. Her daughter found out on September 1st that her
00:30:20class teacher was fired. My daughter called me
00:30:23crying. She is very
00:30:26upset.
00:30:29We did not receive any information from the school. I myself, thank
00:30:32God, personally went to the school that day to get at least
00:30:35some information about what was happening, what it was
00:30:38about, what we would do with the children? The problem is in
00:30:42the poor organization of classes and practice, says
00:30:45the mother. The schedule of classes would be in the evening until
00:30:4811:00, she used to get a message on Sunday evening at 11 o'clock,
00:30:51that's your schedule for tomorrow.
00:30:55I ask how those commuters who come, and she has half a class of
00:30:59commuters.
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