Political Reincarnation

Marko Bastac (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/MO)

A former president of Belgrade’s Stari Grad municipality, Marko Bastac, is very likely to get his old office back, even though he has kept low profile over the past four years. Bastac, formerly a senior official of the Democratic Party and the Freedom and Justice Party, won an incredible 16.4 percent of the vote in the central Belgrade municipality on June 2, and became a factor to tip the scales and decide if the ruling Serbian Progressive Party will stay at the helm of the local self-government in this district, generally perceived as the major opposition stronghold in Serbia.