Jeremic: Differences between New Democratic Party of Serbia and an Oath Keeper Block Agreement

Vuk Jeremic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC/DS)

The People’s Party leader, Vuk Jeremic, said on Oct. 30 that his party had done everything to facilitate a joint campaign by right-wing parties ahead of the new polls in December, but “an escalation of irreconcilable differences” over post-election local coalitions between the New Democratic Party of Serbia and a senior official of the Oath Keepers made the agreement impossible.

“The People’s Party did everything it possibly could to secure a joint list of right-wing candidates, because we think it’s the most effective way to prevent the implementation of the so-called ‘Franco-German’ plan for Kosovo’s independence and the sale of national interests and Serbia’s natural wealth and resources,” Jeremic said in a comment for BETA.

According to the People’s Party leader, based on a compromise suggested by his party, and at the initiative of Serbia’s renowned intellectuals, including the academician Matija Beckovic and the professors Milos Kovic and Milo Lompar, right-wing parties had met on Oct. 29 and were very close to an agreement.

Jeremic promised that the People’s Party would continue to support “very strongly” a joint campaign by the state consolidation opposition ahead of the upcoming polls.