# Ana Brnabić Her government decided that only the Crisis Response Team would inform the public about COVID, and four days later journalist Ana Lalić was arrested. She herself was reported to the authorities over allegedly false data on deaths ahead of the elections, and she accused students and Novi Sad activists of plotting terrorism. She called the REM penalties against Informer a dictatorship of the Student List, Krušik a made-up affair, and the decision on Siniša Mali's plagiarism a political one. ## Affairs - [Concession of Nikola Tesla Airport to Vinci](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/aerodrom-koncesija-vinci): In December 2017 she promised that the contract and annexes would be made public, and after the signing she announced publication by the end of September 2018; this did not happen - [Wind Farm Affair](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/afera-vetropark) - [Arrest of Ana Lalić over an article on the Clinical Centre of Vojvodina](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/ana-lalic-hapsenje-2020): The government she headed decided that only the Crisis Response Team would inform the public about COVID; when withdrawing the decision, she called it her own fault - [Car attacks on students and citizens at blockades](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/automobili-u-studente): As acting president, she declined to comment on the pardon of the driver who hit Sonja Ponjavić - [Acquittal in the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/curuvija-pravosudje): She said she had expected a guilty verdict and that Vučić was the only one who had done anything - [Siniša Mali's annulled doctorate](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/doktorat-sinise-malog): She called the Committee's decision on the doctorate political and said Mali would remain a minister - [Weekly “Vranjske” shut down after tax inspections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/gasenje-vranjskih): She posted on Twitter that the paper had received more in 2017 than from 2008 to 2012, with the message “Enough hypocrisy!” - [General Staff: lifting of protection and the Selaković trial](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/generalstab): She called the trial "pointless and shameless" - [Novi Sad activists charged with overthrowing the constitutional order](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/hapsenje-aktivista-drzavni-udar-2025): She said in 2025 that the activists had planned terrorist actions and a civil war, and repeated it after they were pardoned - [Irregularities in the 2023 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-decembar-2023): She said the SNS lawfully organises transport for voters and called the footage from outside the Arena a fake video - [The „Jadar“ project and the persecution of locals and activists](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jadar-rio-tinto): In 2022 she announced that the government had “put an end to Rio Tinto”, and in 2024 that giving up lithium would be “abnormal” - [Sale of the “Jaroslav Černi” Institute to Milenijum tim](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jaroslav-cerni-milenijum-tim): She promised that the privatisation, if it went ahead, would be fully transparent - [Marijuana plantation on the “Jovanjica” estate](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jovanjica): She told parliament she had loved the tomatoes from Jovanjica, so she had, she supposed, financed drug traffickers - [Pressure on teachers and students at the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jovina-gimnazija): In the debate she defended the principal, saying he has been at the school since 2002 and "knows what he is doing" - [COVID death data hidden ahead of the elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/kovid-skriveni-podaci): According to a criminal complaint, as head of the Crisis Response Team she gave false figures on deaths and infections ahead of the elections - [Krušik: arms sales to the GIM company](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/krusik): Said she had not barred ministers from speaking about Krušik and called the affair made-up - [Vietnamese workers at the Linglong factory in Zrenjanin](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/linglong-zrenjanin): She said the workers had been ordered to be relocated and did not rule out that the attacks were targeting Chinese investment - [The Marija Lukić case: Milutin Jeličić Jutka convicted](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/marija-lukic-jutka): She said Lukić had been given institutional protection, and defended the appointment of the convicted Jeličić as the will of the voters - [Marko Vidojković: death threats, smear campaigns and exile](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/marko-vidojkovic-egzil): According to PEN, which relays his words, she was among the ruling party politicians who repeatedly smeared him in public - [No-tender deals under intergovernmental agreements](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/medjudrzavni-sporazumi-kina): In 2020 she said CRBC was a partner “that is reliable, fast and efficient” - [SNS supporters attack citizens in Vrbas and Bačka Palanka](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/napadi-na-demonstrante-avgust-2025): Responding to a post by Marta Kos, she said that "such a tirade of platitudes has not been heard since the last Miss World contest" - [Attacks on journalists](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/napadi-na-novinare): According to Insajder, she was nearby while people gathered outside the REM media regulator were insulting an Insajder crew, and said she had “begged them not to attack” - [Collapse of the canopy at Novi Sad railway station](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/novi-sad-nadstresnica) - [SNS call centre at the Novi Sad Fair: police slow to arrive](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/novosadski-sajam-kol-centar-policija): Wrote that the party has a call centre, that on election day members call other members and supporters, and that she sees no problem with it - [The “Helicopter” Case: Military Helicopter Crash near Surčin](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/pad-helikoptera-2015): She said the baby “would certainly, I presume, have died” if the helicopter had not been sent up - [Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/pomilovanja-27-septembra-2026): As acting president, she declined to comment on the pardons, calling them a constitutional power of the president - [REM, RTS and state money for the media](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rem-rts-drzavno-oglasavanje): She rejected the finding that RTS had been biased, and in 2026 she called for a rally in defence of Informer and called the REM's penalties a dictatorship of the Student List - [Siniša Mali and 24 flats in Bulgaria](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/sinisa-mali-stanovi-bugarska): She said the story was about what Mali had owned before he went into politics - [Srbijagas under Dušan Bajatović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/srbijagas-bajatovic): After Bajatović was removed from a meeting, she said she had "very good cooperation" with him - [Students as “terrorists”: a campaign by the authorities and tabloids](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/studenti-teroristi-kampanja): She accused students of planning terrorism and called blockaders “cowards and sadists” carrying out “revolutionary terror” - [Telekom's purchase of Kopernikus and media outlets](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/telekom-kupovina-medija): She said the Government has no say over Telekom's business - [Murder of Oliver Ivanović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/ubistvo-olivera-ivanovica): On 16 January 2026 she said Pristina was sabotaging the investigation and that the killer “is not of Serbian descent” --- Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/ana-brnabic As of: 9 Nov 2026 Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en)