Dragan Djilas (BETAPHOTO/DRAGAN GOJIC/EV)
Dragan Djilas, president of the Freedom and Justice Party, proposed on Jan. 22 that Zdravko Ponos be the opposition's candidate in Serbian presidential elections.
"I believe that Zdravko Ponos can beat Aleksandar Vucic. He can unite Serbia and unite the people," Djilas told a session of the party's Steering Committee held in Novi Sad. He added that it was confirmed that party vice president Marinika Tepic would head the ticket for the parliamentary election.
Rade Veljanovski, an official of the Civic Democratic Forum, said Ponos was not capable of achieving significant results as the opposition's presidential hopeful. "I think Zdravko Ponos is a decent man, but I also think that he cannot achieve significant results in the election," Veljanovski told BETA.
Nebojsa Zelenovic, one of the leaders of the opposition group We Must, said former chief of staff Ponos could do well in the presidential election only if the entire opposition agreed on him as its joint candidate.
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