Belgrade (Photo: Print Screen YouTube)
On June 20, at a session which began around 10 a.m., the members of the Serbian capital’s assembly will be electing a new city mayor, deputy mayor and city council.
Running unopposed for mayor is Aleksandar Sapic, nominated by the ruling Serbian Progressive Party.
City assembly representatives from the oppositional People’s Party, Freedom and Justice Party and Movement of Free Citizens have announced that they would boycott the vote for mayor because they consider Sapic “unworthy” of the position. According to them, Sapic has “demonstrated a tendency toward breaking the law and abusing power in his political career so far.” The oppositional representatives have further claimed that they were not provided with the biographies of any of the candidates being considered in today’s vote.
Of the 110 seats in Belgrade’s City Assembly, the Progressive party and Socialist Party of Serbia together won a total of 56 in the April elections. Their nominations for the capital’s leadership were also supported by a representative who was ejected from Vojislav Mihailovic’s Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia.
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