Opposition Party: Protests “Serbia Against Violence” Not a Platform for Election Campaign

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The People’s Party whip, Stefan Jovanovic, said on Aug. 16 that the protests “Serbia Against Violence” should never be used as an election campaign platform, because they had been initiated to commemorate two enormous tragedies.

“The focus must remain on the struggle against violence and improvements to the media sphere in Serbia, used to create vilence,” Jovanovic said in an interview with the Danas paper. The People’s Party official explained that the opposition “must think very carefully what the protests should look like as of September.”

In a comment on the Serbian speaker, Vladimir Orlic’s words that “everyone runs away from the protests as soon as the opposition takes the floor,” Jovanovic said that Orlic “should deal with his own people, not the opposition,” the People’s Party quoted Jovanovic as saying.