Parliamentary Opposition: Transitional Gov’t of National Trust Is Way out of Crisis

Miroslav Aleksic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

The parliamentary opposition announced on March 20 that they had reached consensus about the need to form a transitional government, i.e. a government of national trust, for which the deadline began on March 20, in order for Serbia to move out of the crisis, and declared that the regime had lost its legitimacy.

Speaking on the behalf of the opposition, the president of the People’s Movement of Serbia, Miroslav Aleksic, told reporters in the Assembly of Serbia that the opposition had demonstrated that they can cooperate functionally and that it was necessary to form a fixed-term “government of national trust.” Aleksic stated that the society was experiencing a deep crisis and that the forming of the transitional government was an urgent necessity, going on to say that the government of Milos Vucevic actually fell on Nov. 1, the day of the Novi Sad tragedy.

A co-president of the Green-Left Front, Biljana Djordjevic, stated that the fundamental mandate of that government would be to create the conditions for fulfillment of the students’ demands and for the holding of free and fair elections. “That is a fixed-term, temporary government, lasting no more than nine months and having particular tasks. The goal of that government is for the citizens to be able to freely elect a legitimate government. The current authorities have no legitimacy,” Djordjevic said.

After the expiration of the mandate of the government of national trust and the verification of fulfillment of all the conditions, the parliamentary elections would be schedule, she said.