Democratic Party Leader on Government's First 100 Days: Fatal Policy Continues in All Areas 

Zoran Lutovac (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/DS)

Democratic Party leader Zoran Lutovac said on Aug. 7 that the first 100 days of the cabinet led by Prime Minister Milos Vucevic were "the continuation of a fatal policy in all areas."

On May 2, Serbian MPs voted in the new government, headed by Serbian Progressive Party President Vucevic.

Lutovac told BETA that Vucevic was "formally leading" that government, and that it was in fact a government of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

He said that the first 100 days of that cabinet had been marked by "more stolen elections, this time local ones," as well as "the revival of the lithium mining project and further indebting of the state."

Lutovac added that the period "was also marked by the failed attempt to save Vucic's plummeting popularity with the 'All-Serb declaration.'"

"The All-Serb, that is 'all-Vucic' declaration was actually supposed to stop the decline in his rating over lithium, over the collapse of the Kosovo policy and over the fall in the population's purchasing power," said the Democrats' leader.

According to him, "it may turn out that this government will pay the price of all the previous failures and bad policy, that here (in Serbia) lithium will be what the religious processions were in Montenegro."