Political Scientist: Opposition Should Run Two Presidential Candidates

Cvijetin Milivojevic (Photo: YouTube)

The political scientist Cvijetin Milivojevic said on Nov. 1 that the opposition should run two candidates in the coming presidential vote in Serbia -- a nationalist and a non-nationalist one.

Milivojevic told BETA that the opposition should not insist on a sole candidate in the first round, as two candidates would ensure a run-off round of the vote.

"The important thing is that the entire opposition make an iron-clad deal to vote against Aleksandar Vucic in the run-off, i.e. for whichever opposition candidate wins the most votes in the first round. The opposition should apply the Montenegrin election formula and not 'force' a shared candidate, but pick the best ones in the non-nationalist and nationalist opposition parties," the political scientist explained.

He stressed that a significant number of Serbian Progressive Party voters "aren't a sure vote base for them." "The opposition candidate would need to stand for everything Aleksandar Vucic's voters perceive as his advantages, and be the antithesis to the sitting president in all other respects," Milivojevic said.