Izvor: N1 televizija, 04.Maj.2018, 13:28 (ažurirano 02.Apr.2020.)
Serbia’s PM: Minister offends citizens
Serbia’s Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on Friday that a member of her government had insulted a number of the citizens by discriminating the LGBT population.
She told him to “better do his job.”
Brnabic said on Friday she had refrained from an immediate reaction after seeing Minister without Portfolio Nenad Popovic’s tweet in which he called for an immediate stop to importing of what he said were gay picture books for children.
"We have to stop those >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << who want to convince us that it’s all right for ROKO TO HAVE TO MUMS AND FOR ANA TO HAVE TWO DADS,” the minister tweeted.
The Belgrade-based Gay Lesbian Info Centre said on Thursday that it had filed a complaint against the minister, citing discrimination against the LGBT population and demanding an apology.
Popovic later said he only expressed his legitimate opinion as “a parent and Serbia’s citizen, who honours the traditional values.”
“I do not call for a violence and I have never done it,” he said, adding he "got back only insults, instead of any arguments.”
But Brnabic, herself an op[en gay person, said she would talk to Popovic privately to try to understand his statement, but added she thought he got mixed up with all issues.
She said she wanted to end the talks on the issues of homosexuality and birthrate once for all.
“There is no any link between the two. Gay people have the reproductive organs. No minister, no government in this world should decide whether they would or would not have children. Neither they could have a control over it,” Brnabic said.
She added she would very much like the ministers to do their job a bit more, rather than publicly talk about things without being asked and about issues that had nothing to do with their duties Serbia’s citizens were paying them to execute.
Brnabic said that Popovic was in charge of innovations. “The minister's job is above all that those Roko and Ana or Stefan and Milos, or whoever, stay in Serbia. His duty is to create conditions for them to stay, not to deal with who their parents are,” Brnabic said.
