Manojlovic: Vucic timed meeting with Scholz to avoid session on lithium

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04. okt. 2024. 12:43

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Go-Change movement campaigns director Savo Manojlovic accused Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic of deliberately avoiding the Serbian Parliament session on lithium by scheduling a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Hamburg at the same time.

Majojlovic wrote in a post on the X social media platform that while Vucic will be posing for photos with Scholz, MPs of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) will be “staging a circus” in Parliament.

Vucic said Friday that he would have canceled all his meetings to attend the Parliament session on lithium, but that the opposition MPs did not invite him.

The Go-Change campaigns director also criticized those who claim that the only obstacle to mining is the corrupt government, suggesting that with a change in leadership, exploitation could be done safely.

“According to Serbia's leading experts, any form of mining has harmful environmental consequences. Moreover, comparisons with Germany are irrelevant, since nothing is being mined there yet, and the process of extracting lithium is completely different,” added Manojlovic.

Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic has called the Parliament’s first regular session for Monday, October 7. The agenda will include a proposed amendment to the Law on Mining and Geological Exploration, submitted by 86 opposition MPs.