Marko Milosevic: My Grandfather Slobodan Considered Stepping Down in 1997

Slobodan Milosevic (Wikimedia/Stevan Kragujevic)

Marko Milosevic, a member of the Serbian parliament from the ranks of the Socialist Party of Serbia, said on March 11 that he knew "for certain" that his grandfather, former president of the former Yugoslavia and Serbia Slobodan Milosevic, "considered in 1997 no longer being president," but that "his closest circle did not support him in it and persuaded him against it."

"Were there mistakes or failures? There surely were, which is why I have tried for half my life to learn the objective truth, because I can see, together with the strongly positive and affirmative, that there is a strongly negative sentiment toward Milosevic, which I also consider relevant," Milosevic told the Politika daily in an interview on the 20th anniversary of his grandfather Slobodan Milosevic's death.

"I absolutely do not assume that someone is right just because they are close to me. Anyone who knows me knows that I am not biased or emotional in any of my attitudes or analyses, and that I prize the truth above all," Milosevic said. He said his political ambitions involved educational reform and building a functional socially just society, and that this was why he decided to enter politics.