Vladimir Djukanovic (BETAPHOTO/AMIR HAMZAGIC)
Vladimir Djukanovic, a member of the Serbian Progressive Party’s head council, said on July 30 that President Aleksandar Vucic has “in a way, been left hanging in the storm” of public outcry against lithium mining, while the rest of the country’s top officials “are inexplicably passive.”
Other than Vucic, only “hard-fighting” Milenko Jovanov, Prime Minister Milos Vucevic, Ana Brnabic – “who is being subject to all kinds of hatred” – and a handful of other officials are “battling to explain the benefits of the project to the public,” Djukanovic told Pink TV.
According to him, the rest of the country’s top leadership “has tucked tail and ran” in a calculated move to avoid antagonizing anyone and facing the fight and insults he himself endures daily.
“The opposition doesn’t even want a referendum [on the issue] but rather a decree prohibiting any talk of lithium [mining], because in an open, fact-based debate, they would lose. So, instead, they hop from one protest to the next, sowing fear,” Djukanovic concluded.
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