Djilas: Our Polls Indicates Possibility of Ruling Party Losing Election

Dragan Djilas SSP (Photo: Luka Filipovic)

President of the Freedom and Justice Party Dragan Djilas has stated that, according to public opinion polls conducted by his party, there is a chance that the current establishment will not be re-elected in the upcoming April 3 vote for parliament, president and local Belgrade government.

"Our research shows -- and we've been conducting it for 20 months -- that there is an actual possibility that the [current] regime will lose these elections. That the opposition, [its] party members [and] individual fighters, will win. For that to happen, for our victory to be certain, 900,000 people must cast a vote in the Belgrade elections and 3.8 million [must vote] across Serbia to ensure that the regime does not have a majority," Djilas told Nova S TV.

Djilas further stated that his party's polls show that about 500,000 people remain undecided but he refused to name the agency in charge of the polling, claiming that, "in this country," identifying it would cause the agency to "lose commercial clients."

The Freedom and Justice Party head also said that people in Serbia are afraid that the Ukrainian war will spread to the Balkans -- a fear he believes is rooted in a lack of faith in the current government.

With regards to the international sanctions on Russia, Djilas said that he opposes them. "I am actively against imposing sanctions against anyone. We know what [sanctions] are like. Research shows that half of Moscow is against the war, yet they, too, face sanctions. Don't impose sanctions on ordinary people because you have no justification for that," Djilas concluded.