Aleksic: I’d Like Elections to be Held by End of Year, But it’s Up to Vucic

MIroslav Aleksic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)

Miroslav Aleksic, an MP and the leader of the newly-formed People’s Movement of Serbia, has said that he would like to see elections happen by the end of the year but that this depends “solely on the will and political judgement” of President Aleksandar Vucic.

“Accusations that the opposition doesn’t want elections and is trying to avoid them are part of [Vucic’s] theatrics and I’m here to say that the opposition is ready for the elections, first and foremost in Belgrade, [where] the Serbian Progressive Party lost legitimacy and where the opposition received 70,000 more votes than the ruling coalition at the last elections,” Aleksic told the Aug. 14 issue of the Politika daily.

Until recently the vice-president of the People’s Party, Aleksic further expressed his belief that the ‘Serbia Against Violence’ rallies will not stop until the protestors’ demands have been met, because these issues are essential to every single person in Serbia “regardless of political or ideological inclination.”