CeSID: Serbian Opposition Is Weak, Fragmented and Timid  

Bojan Klacar (Photo: Milos Miskov)

The Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) executive director, Bojan Klacar, has described the opposition in Serbia as “weak, fragmented and timid,” leaving the impression that no one had a clear plan on what to do.

“Divisions that existed before the elections have continued, although one was to expect all the parties to focus on new elections instead of dealing with personal reasons, successes or failures of the boycott, the real and false opposition,” Klacar told the Dec. 8 issue of Croatian weekly Hrvatska Rijec.

He added that it seemed that the opposition parties were still focusing more on themselves than on voters and that they had reduced all their activities to struggle for better election conditions, which, he said, was an important part, but at the same time, it was necessary to offer to voters the answers to other fears, problems and worries. “Without serious work and changes to the manner of activities, political changes are not feasible,” Klacar specified.

According to him, today, the opposition is in the rearrangement phase, where it seeks for new arrangements and platforms for the next elections. Klarac added that Aleksandar Vucic was not powerful because he was the president of Serbia, but because he was the leader of the biggest party which provided a majority in the parliament for forming the executive branch.