Part of the Serbian Opposition to Run for Office on June 2 Under the Slogan “I Choose Fight”

Photo: Beta/Milos Miskov

The opposition parties, namely, the People's Movement of Serbia, the Green Left Front, the New Face of Serbia, the Ecological Uprising, the Democratic Party and the Free Citizens Movement, announced on April 22 that they would run for election in Belgrade’s and other local polls on June 2 , using the common slogan "I Choose Fight."

The president of the People's Movement of Serbia, Miroslav Aleksic, said at a press conference in the Serbian Parliament building that those parties had decided to participate in the upcoming elections in the capital and a number of local municipalities if their basic demands were met – that a commission be formed to revise the electoral roll, that media laws be respected and that the Belgrade and other local elections be held on the same day.

Aleksic said they had decided not to give up any municipality or city to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s regime without a fight, and that he could not understand a decision by other opposition parties not to run in Belgrade, but participate in local elections. 

The Green Left Front’s MP, Radomir Lazovic, said that they had forced the regime to repeat the "rigged  elections," and that the fight for a better electoral setting had to continue, warning, however, that the Serbian Progressive Party would never provide for a free and fair vote in Serbia, and that they would have to win an  gives them fair and honest elections, so they will have to win the unfair fight.

The Ecological Uprising’s parliamentary representative, Aleksandar Jovanovic Cuta, said that to fight was their only choice, but that he would respect every decision regarding participation in the elections.

President of the Free Citizens Movement Pavle Grbovic said that his group would remain open to cooperation both before and after the elections, and that their criticism would be targeted at the Progressive regime only.