Vuk Jeremic (People's Party photo)
Commenting on the planned formation of the Serbian Bloc – a political organization to be led by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic – People’s Party head Vuk Jeremic has stated that, despite Vucic’s aspirations, Vucic remains Serbia’s version of Boris Yeltsin, not Vladimir Putin.
“That bloc is supposed to replace the Serbian Progressive Party and expand the grasp of the regime. Vucic aspires to emulate Putin, who is quite popular in Serbia. Putin has his United Russia and the idea is for the Serbian Bloc to imitate it,” Jeremic said in a statement issued by the People’s Party on Sept. 5.
“But Vucic is not the Serbian Putin – he’s the Serbian Boris Yeltsin: in how he has dismantled state-owned companies like Elektroprivreda Srbije and Telekom [Srbije], in how he has criminalized society, in how he has handed the economy over to foreign firms and newly-minted tycoons, in how he has abandoned the interests of [our] nation. And, after seeing the hours-long broadcast from the wine fair on the public service, one could add alcoholism to the list as well,” Jeremic concluded.
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