Opposition Leader: Conflict with KFOR the Last Thing Serbia Needs

Zdravko Ponos/BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV

The Serbia Center (SRCE) movement’s leader, Zdravko Ponos, said on May 31 that a conflict with the Kosovo Force (KFOR) was “the last thing Serbia needs right now,” and that it’s Belgrade’s job to restore a trustful relationship with the peacekeepers.

“It wasn’t KFOR’s decision that Serbs should leave their posts in Kosovo institutions, or that they should boycott elections and, above all, accept as legitimate the authorities born in the false polls,” Ponos said in an interview with the Nova newspaper. When asked about the idea to form a transitional government in Serbia, Ponos said that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic would consider it an attempt to remove a fuse from the mechanism keeping him in power.

“Even before, the only thing Vucic has reacted nervously to was my request for a provisional government. He knows that it would remove a fuse from the mechanism keeping him power – making a regular election impossible. A provisional technical government should secure a peaceful transition from his obstinacy to normality, which can begin with the first regular election after 2012,” Ponos said.