Cvijetin Milivojevic (Photo: YouTube)
A political analyst, Cvijetin Milivojevic, said on Aug. 21, that the opposition should boycott local and parliamentary elections expected to take place next spring, unless Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic fulfilled a promise he had given earlier that Belgrade should have a vote by the end of the year.
“The opposition must insist that elections in Belgrade should be held before the others. The opposition should request a vote in Belgrade, which Vucic promised during an April 12 meeting with Djilas. The polls in Belgrade will be a test for the spring elections,” Milivojevic said to BETA.
His peer, Boban Stojanovic, cautioned that a decision to hold local and parliamentary elections together was made to kill local democracy, and make it virtually nonexistent.
“Vucic plans to run a national campaign revolving around his name, in a bid to hide behind it the party and unpopular individuals in towns and municipalities,” Stojanovic said in a comment for BETA.
When asked what the opposition should do about Vucic’s announcement that the elections in Serbia would be merged, Stojanovic said that it was not knew to the opposition, and that it should get ready to win some major cities.
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