Milivojevic: Nestorovic is the Most Desirable Coalition Partner, Perhaps Belgrade’s Next Mayor

Cvijetin Milivojevic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)

A political analyst, Cvijetin Milivojevic, said on Dec 18 that the election success of Branimir Nestorovic’s list of candidates “We – The Voice of the People”, which won around five percent of the voter support, happened because the party had collected the votes of the right-wing opposition, but also because it hadn’t been “excessively criticized” by the authorities.

Milivojevic said for BETA that Nestorovic was the most desirable coalition partner in Belgrade, and that the Serbian Progressive Party and the Socialist Party of Serbia were helpless without him, adding that he might even “work out” the post of Belgrade mayor, or influence the appointment.

“It wasn’t an overnight success for Nestorovic’s candidates – they are public figures and successful people, and the authorities did not want to interfere, because they wanted to bring down the ratings of the right-wing opposition,” Milivojevic said.

The analyst also said that the opposition jeopardized their victory in the Belgrade polls with a request that the parliamentary elections and the polls in Belgrade be held together, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic gladly accommodated them.

“The results would have been different had the opposition requested a snap vote in Belgrade last June, where the protests reached their peak,” Milivojevic said, adding that the opposition would have won then.