Two Years On, Accountability Is the First Test of the New Majority
The movement that grew out of Novi Sad now has the votes. It should be judged by how quickly the facts of the collapse come out.
On Sunday Novi Sad remembered its sixteen dead for the second time. This year the crowd stood in silence knowing that the movement born at the station gates now holds 140 seats in parliament. That changes what accountability means. It is no longer a demand made from the street; it is a task for the majority.
The incoming government has promised a review of projects of public importance and the recovery of illegally acquired assets. Those are large ambitions. The first test is narrower and more concrete: a complete, public account of how the canopy at Novi Sad came to fall, who signed off the work and why the investigation has taken two years.
That account should come from institutions, not from the new majority’s own commissions, and it should be published in full. A new government that settles scores will lose the trust that brought it to power as quickly as the old one did. A government that lets prosecutors and courts work, and protects the journalists who scrutinise them, will earn it.
This is the standard The Serbian Review will apply in its coverage of the months ahead, to the new majority as much as to the old one.
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