Serbian PM says Freedom House not objective enough

“The Freedom House report is relevant to me but I do not agree with it. I absolutely do not think and do not feel that I live in a partly free country but rather that I live in a country which is freer than it was a few years ago,” she said.

Freedom House’s Freedom in the World 2019 gave Serbia a ranking of Partly Free and a score of 67 out of a possible 100 points which is 6 points less than a year earlier when the country had a ranking of Free.

The prime minister said she thinks a country is free when its government takes care of the population in the way that her cabinet does, adding that she is at the disposal of all citizens. “I think that is the right way to show freedom and tolerance,” Brnabic said.

She said that Freedom House has a perspective that she does not agree with.

Brnabic said that she had not seen the entire report but would look at it in detail to see what can be improved.