Employment in state-owned companies: All by competition or nepotism?

Republika Srpska Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic confirmed on Sunday that her son recently got a job at Elektroprenos Bosnia and Herzegovina and sees nothing controversial in that fact.

In a statement to reporters in Laktasi, the Prime Minister said that her son, with a university degree, got a job in a state-owned electricity transmission company after a competition was announced, which, in addition to him, employed another 90 people.

The Prime Minister said that speculations on how the mentioned competition was annulled and that her son and daughter Zoran Tegeltija, the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Srpska, were employed without any competition.

This is certainly neither the first nor the last case that relatives of the most prominent officials are employed in public institutions and public companies. Most officials use their position to employ family members and friends.

That is not against the law either, says Ivana Korajlić, spokesperson for the TI BiH organization, for BUKU, because you cannot forbid someone to get a job just because they belong to someone else.

“Of course, that goes to extremes, so you have complete family trees in public companies and institutions, while on the other hand other young educated people, if they don’t have good acquaintances and family ties, have been waiting for employment at the bureau for years,” Korajlic said in a statement for our portal. .

She says there are several factors to determine whether the employment of the prime minister’s son and the minister’s daughter is controversial, – “whether Cvijanovic and Tegeltija were in a position to decide on the employment of their children, in which case it would be a conflict of interest, and on the other hand, did they really prove to be the best candidates in the competition ”

On the other hand, TI BiH will today send a request to Elektroprivreda to submit information on the conducted competitions, in order to determine whether the best candidates were indeed selected and whether the criteria and procedures were met.

Korajlic says that the fact that the representative of Elektroprenos BiH in charge of personnel issues stated that he did not know that they were “privileged children” sounds like science fiction, and playing with the intelligence of the people.

“Zeljka Cvijanovic is a shareholder representative in Elektroprenos, and therefore it is naive to expect that no one knew anything. Especially, because this is a small country, Banja Luka is a small city where everyone knows everything,” says Korajlic.

She states that the Republic Commission for Determining Conflicts of Interest in RS Authorities is responsible for determining conflicts of interest, and that she deeply doubts that she will determine the existence of conflicts of interest, because the Law itself is conceived in such a way that it is practically impossible to find conflicts of interest. She recalls the cases of Milorad Dodik and the loan to his son, as well as the former Minister of Agriculture, Miroslav Milovanovic, whose company received a loan from the RBI.

Ivana Korajlić says that our public officials have been sending a message to citizens for a long time that they cannot get a job or achieve anything through education and honest effort and work, but that they must be privileged to get a job or live a normal life. Of course, they have long since reached such a level of arrogance that they do not even consider anything controversial in such cases, openly abuse their positions for personal gain and count on the citizens to remain silent and suffer indefinitely.

Why such behavior? Firstly, they use their position in power as much as they can to ensure the existence of themselves and future generations, and secondly, so far they have never had consequences for such behavior, not only legal, but also in terms of support from citizens. this – they can!

Source: buka.com