Boris Tadic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC/DS)
Former Serbian president and the leader of the Social Democratic Party, Boris Tadic, has said that his party will support a student ticket in potential snap elections, adding that this decision was made by the party leadership.
He said he saw no other solution but elections in a situation where "the entire country" had been out in the streets for six months demanding the fulfillment of the students' demands.
"Today students and citizens are calling for elections after half a year of mass protests across the country over a tragedy in which human lives were lost," Tadic said in an interview with the Danas newspaper.
He further said that the demand for elections proposed by the students blockading the Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences was "the last democratic means" by which "the crisis can be resolved."
"After the students came out with the proposal, Serbia is certainly closer to a snap general election," said Tadic.
Tadic also said that, if the authorities refused an election, that would mean "occupation" by the regime, and added that the best way to fight was for "all the forces" that were against the regime to gather in one place.
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