Opposition Leader Djilas: Serbia Not Deciding between Me and Vucic, but between a Normal Life and Current Living Conditions

Dragan Djilas (BETAPHOTO/AMIR HAMZAGIC)

Freedom and Justice Party leader Dragan Djilas, listed number three on the ticket titled “Serbia Against Violence” in the upcoming parliament elections, has said that on Dec. 17, voters will not be choosing between him and President Aleksandar Vucic, but rather between “a normal life without uncertainty and the current living conditions.”

“If all the Belgraders who believe it is disgraceful to have a mayor who calls some people monkeys and whose associates have robbed projects for reducing school violence in the country where a child shot dead eight of his schoolmates, if all those who want Belgrade to be true Belgrade go to the polls on Dec. 17, then we will secure a landslide victory,” Djilas told the Dec. 12 issue of Belgrade daily Politika.

The same applied for the rest of Serbia, he added.

“Should the turnout be only five percent up from the previous elections, the parties which are backed by the people who do not support the ruling parties will be able to form a caretaker government. As for the arguments, our strongest one is that we offer concrete solutions for building a decent and stable Serbia, but other arguments include the very rule of Aleksandar Vucic and what they have made of Serbia, which is also recognized by most of Serbian Progressive Party supporters,” Djilas stressed.

Djilas also said he believed that voters of all opposition parties wanted the country to be decriminalized and freed of corruption, stressing that “all want rampant price hikes to end, all are against further excessive borrowing, and all believe that we should support domestic businesses, invest in agriculture and help our compatriots in Kosovo and Metohija.”