Dikic: Talks on Joint Candidates to be Suspended over Ponos Nomination, or Democrat Leaders to Step Down

Aleksandar Dikic (Photo: PrintScreen YouTube)

A member of the Democratic Party Board, Aleksandar Dikic, said on Jan. 24 that “using a fait accompli technique, a party, which for unknown reason aspires to lead the Serbian opposition, nominated Zdravko Ponos as a presidential candidate,” referring to the Freedom and Justice Party.

“Without any prior agreement or clear, credible parameters, without a series of meeting involving a broader spectrum of coalition partners, this hasty nomination is yet another proof that conflicts within the opposition hadn’t been resolved, and that there’s more than animosity and unhealthy ambition behind them. The problems are much deeper,” Dikic said in a featured article for the Danas newspaper.

He wants to know “where in all that lies the role of the Democratic Party, which has always been the connective tissue of the Serbian opposition,” explaining that there are only two options left. “First, for the lack of sheer decency and for heedless messages that have reached the opposition public in the aftermath of the decision, the Democratic Party is suspending talks to make it possible for the opposition to run together in the next city and parliamentary elections,” Dikic wrote in his article.

The other option, as he put it, was for “the Democratic Party Board to vote no confidence in the party leadership if they proposed a vote of support to the candidacy of Zdravko Ponos.”