Zivkovic: Election day to be pushed back over pandemic

Zoran Zivkovic (Photo: Beta)

New Party leader Zoran Zivkovic has said that Serbia's parliamentary election should be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

"There are also legal requirements for such a decision, it's just something that needs to be done. It is easy for (Serbian President Aleksandar) Vucic to suspend election activities when there's nonstop coverage of him and his people," Zivkovic said in comment for the Blic daily.

Zivkovic also said that his party didn't want to use door-to-door campaigns either, as his activists did not want to jeopardize anyone. "This will leave us with very little space provided by some media outlets and social networks. We hope that a better government strategy for the pandemic will make it possible to communicate directly at some point," the New Party leader said.

Speaking of the results that he was hoping to achieve in the coming election, Zivkovic said that there were between 300,000 and 400,000 people in the country, who believed that an election boycott was nonsense, and had a "pro-European vision" of Serbia. "We are talking to them. Whether we will succeed or not depends on us, and on them. I would remind them though that it is not the fate of politicians that they will decide in the polls, but rather their own," Zivkovic underlined.