Vesna Pesic
Sociologist Vesna Pesic said on Jan. 30 that she is for the election boycott because “for a year now the opposition has been demanding that the [coming] elections be free and fair; expert NGOs have given detailed proposals, of which none have been accepted.”
In an interview with the latest issue of the NIN weekly, she also said that, “the media outlets are being increasingly shut down and controlled so that the citizens can’t hear the opposition, and nothing reaches them except for Vucic’s propaganda and squabbles in Parliament.”
“Vucic’s cabinet is, as we speak, setting up “auxiliary” parties so as to cover up the fact that we have a one-party system and a political monopoly; certain parties have to be rearranged and dispatched to the right wing next to the extremists, and some fake “civics” to the opposite side. That’s why [Vucic] has lowered the [parliament representation] threshold, with the intention of placing dummies inside the parliament and hide the fact that the emperor has no clothes,” said Pesic.
According to her, the Alliance for Serbia should team up with the others “boycotters” and all of them should work together until the elections, adding that she does not see “why [the Alliance] wouldn’t disband after the elections, as they aren’t a coalition, and their political views and programs differ.”
“And now, when the Movement of Free Citizens, Let’s Not Drown Belgrade, Enough is Enough and the Social Democratic Party, four parties that are not in the Alliance, have joined the boycott, it would be better that they came together under the name ‘The Boycott Group’,” concluded Pesic.
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