NADA: Free and Democratic Elections Organized by an Interim Gov't Are the Only Solution

Milos Jovanovic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)

The NADA (Hope) coalition, comprising the New Democratic Party of Serbia and the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia, said on March 5 that the only item on the agenda that this makeup of the National Assembly could decide on was the election of a transitional government which would organize free and democratic elections.

"On March 4 we showed determination not to agree to a manipulation attempt by (Serbian President) Aleksandar Vucic to present the situation in the state as normal, where institutions are doing their job and where the opposition is a part of that. The truth is completely opposite, that in his 13 years of rule he has rendered every institution in the state meaningless, including the parliament," New Democratic Party of Serbia leader Milos Jovanovic said.

In his words, the parliament has long stopped being a temple of democracy and does not represent the legislative branch, rather, as he put it, it is a smoke screen designed to give citizens the illusion that they have a say through their representatives, while the truth is that one man makes all the decisions instead of them.

Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia President Vojislav Mihailovic said the regime had turned the parliament into the site of "a dirty propaganda war" against the opposition a long time ago, and had made the house - where "democracy has not lived for 13 years now" - completely pointless. According to him, North Macedonia and Montenegro have had interim governments in the past, tasked with holding elections, as did Serbia back in 2000.