After meeting PM, Serbia's journalist says she will stop hunger strike
N1 Info 07.05.2019 | RTS N1 Belgrade
Maja Pavlovic, the owner of the independent Channel 9 TV from the northern city of Novi Sad, decided to stop the 23-days of hunger strike, after meeting Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, although two of her crucial demands were not fulfilled. At the beginning of the publicly televised meeting, Brnabic told Pavlovic, that some of her demands could not be met, adding the hunger strike was a kind of serious blackmail.
Brnabic added that “it was unbelievable that in the society in which we all brag how much we need the rule of law everyone expects the Government to intervene with courts and are angry when it does not.” “I don’t support hunger strike; it’s a kind of serious blackmail. We haven’t reached that level since the Government is always open for talks,” Brnabic added. She said that “since some of the demands were fulfilled and some cannot be met and you
