New Democratic Party of Serbia: We Won’t Allow a Majority in Belgrade Assembly Facilitated by Turncoats

Milos Jovanovic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

Ensuring a majority in the Belgrade City Assembly facilitated by two turncoats, who had joined the Serbian Progressive Party and the Socialist Party of Serbia, would be illegitimate and the opposition would stand against it, New Democratic Party of Serbia leader Milos Jovanovic said on Feb. 13.

“If new elections were organized in Belgrade, in normal electoral conditions, the Progressives would lose. Should Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic resort to imperiousness, exercising power and endorsing turncoats, as this regime is violent in its core, he is risking street protests and rising tension, which would not be in his favor either,” Jovanovic noted.

Jovanovic also said that the Progressives and the Socialists could not together form a majority in Belgrade, adding he did not know what they in mind for the assembly constitutive session. 

“The idea of creating a majority with two turncoats, who had earned their seat through We-The Voice of the People ticket, would not give legitimacy to such legitimate. It would only add more illegitimacy to the already illegitimate situation arising from irregular voting, because this ticket ran in the elections as an utterly regime opposing group,” Jovanovic specified.

He added that the only solution to the ongoing political crisis was to hold a new vote in Serbia’s capital.