Student: Social Covenant on Serbia’s Future More Important than Names on Student Ticket

Student of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Belgrade

The student ticket for the upcoming parliamentary elections is almost complete, but releasing it before the extraordinary vote is called would do more harm than good, Ana Kikovic, a student of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Belgrade, has said.

Ever since the demand for snap elections was made in May, Kikovic told BETA in an interview on Oct. 29, the student protest position had been not to make the ticket public until the election is called.

"We believe it would do more harm than good. Also, we want to demonstrate again that our social covenant is more important than the names on the ticket," Kikovic said. She went on to say that a majority of student plenary assemblies had picked their candidates for the student ticket, and that the main action point now was developing a plan to monitor the elections, deploy local teams to campaign and work out the social covenant, or platform.

Asked how candidates were vetted to safeguard against the possibility of their switching sides to follow the sitting government, Kikovic said the names on the ticket were proven experts in their areas -- professors, farmers, workers, economists, culture workers, and athletes -- and were there out of necessity, not personal interest.