Darko Glisic (BetaPhoto/Milan Obradovic)
In response to the opposition’s demands for a snap parliamentary election, Darko Glisic, the head of the Serbian Progressive Party’s executive board, said on July 31 that the Cabinet plans to fulfill its four-year term, but that his party also “do[es] not want to hold office against the wishes of the people.”
“The elections were held and the plan is to work diligently and committedly for [the next] four years, but you can never exclude the possibility of someone challenging that, claiming circumstances have changed and that the people want something different… We do not want to hold office against the wishes of the people. As far as we’re concerned, we’ll be working the full term, but we’ll see. If it happens that we have to win yet again – we shall, by a landslide,” Glisic told Pink TV.
In response to Freedom and Justice Party leader Dragan Djilas demanding snap elections because “the authorities have changed their policy on lithium mining,” Glisic said that “elections were held on June 2, two months ago,” but that Djilas boycotted them in the majority of cities and municipalities where they took place.
According to Glisic, who is also minister of public investments, the opposition “avoid[s] the defeat they know awaits them by so-called boycotting.”
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