Aleksandar Olenik calls for dissolution of BIA

Aleksandar Olenik, a lawyer from the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV), has proposed that the first decision of a new government should be the dissolution of the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) and the formation of a new agency.

Olenik argues that lustration is necessary in cases where actions were taken against the interests of citizens but did not constitute a criminal offense. He suggests that if lustration had been implemented in 2000, current political figures would not have been involved in politics for the last 20 years.

Comparing the BIA to the Soviet NKVD, Olenik claims the agency functions as a secret police that monitors politicians, journalists, dissidents, and academics to protect the ruling party rather than the state. He advocates for a reform model similar to post-reunification Germany, where agencies were rebuilt to focus exclusively on protecting the constitutional order and combating terrorism.