Svetlana Stanarević, a representative of the Student List, has called for the opening of secret intelligence files to become an absolute priority, stressing that the process must be carried out through strict legal procedures rather than used as a tool for political revenge.
Stanarević, a professor at the Faculty of Security Studies, said Serbia urgently needs the complete depoliticisation and professionalisation of its defence and security structures, alongside strict civilian and judicial oversight.
“Opening the files must be an absolute priority, but this process must not be driven by political revenge, but by strict legal procedures,” Stanarević told the newspaper Nova.
She noted that Serbia is among the few former socialist countries in Europe that have never completed a comprehensive lustration process or opened their secret intelligence archives.
According to Stanarević, this failure has allowed the same networks of informants and compromised officials to move between successive governments for decades, serving each new administration as instruments of political blackmail.
Speaking about the challenges a new government would inherit, she identified the merging of state institutions with organised crime as one of the most urgent problems facing the country.
