Odgovornost ministаrа. Slučаj Nаstаsа Petrovićа 1907–1911

Abstract

Случај Настаса Петровића особен је у нашој парламентарној по- вести по томе што су паралелно била покренута питања политичке и кривичне министарске одговорности, расправљана у опсежним скупштинским расправама о двема интерпелацијама (новембар–де- цембар 1907. и март 1911. године) и о предлогу парламентарне оптужбе (април 1911. године). У раду су приказана схватања која су тада била исказана о важним питањима министарске одговорности: комплемен- тарности политичке и кривичне одговорности, разграничења сфера индивидуалне и колективне одговорности, солидарности хомогених ка- бинета и коалиционих влада, разграничења јурисдикција државног суда и редовног кривичног правосуђа, природе министарских кривица и прин- ципа и критеријума парламентарне оптужбе.

Concerning the dramatic assassination in the prison in 1907 in the Assembly were initiated the questions of political and criminal responsibility of minister in office and collective responsibility of the government. In November and December 1907 and in March and April 1911 an comprehensive discussion took place during parliamentary debates concerning two interpellations and the motion of accusation. Party leaders, among which were some excellent intellectuals and respective scholars, expressed on those occasions their conceptions on important questions of ministerial responsibility: mutuality of legal and political responsibility, delimitation of the spheres of individual and collective responsibility, solidarity of homogeneous cabinets and coalition governments, delimitation of jurisdictions of the State court and ordinary criminal judiciary, the nature of ministerial guilt and principles and criteria of parliamentary accusation. Parliamentary debate of those questions reflected a developed comprehension of notion of ministerial responsibility as fundamental principle of parliamentary government and guaranty of constitutionality and legality. In spite of that the result of voting on interpellations and on the motion of accusation demonstrated in case of Nastas Petrović that party discipline prevailed over both conventions of parliamentary system and idea of legality. Led by party interest Radical party parliamentary majority protected the minister of nonconfidence vote and subsequently of accusation and also by parliamentary support kept in power both Pašić’s cabinets.