Freedom and Justice Party Official: European Politicians Are Ashamed of Talking to Vucic

Borko Stefanovic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

Borko Stefanovic, deputy leader of the Freedom and Justice Party and MP, on April 28 said that all attempts by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to restore communication with European leaders were futile, because he could not implement the requested European reforms.

Stefanovic told BETA that “the golden era of stabilitocracy” in Serbia was over for the EU, adding that Vucic and his regime had been unsuccessfully trying to restore communication with the highest European officials in the last few months.

“While trying to do this, the regime has been using all possible lies and promises which are no longer endorsed, because everyone has figure out what kind of government this is. It is difficult to have the kind of relations and communications they used to have with European officials, such Ursula von der Leyen, Antonio Costa or Emmanuel Macron, while at the same time it has been proved that the regime has rigged elections in the country, deployed thugs to beat the people, adopted criminal justice laws, and has not implement fundamental and essential recommendations ODIHR,” he stressed.

According to Stefanovic, Vucic’s diplomatic activities had been reduced to phone calls which European officials had been ignoring and were ashamed of.

“Vucic has been an increasing burden for European officials. They asses that it is not good to talk or meet with Vucic, because he uses every meeting or conversation present to the domestic public as the support of the world public for him personally. Vucic irresistibly resembles Viktor Orban and he remains the only one in the wider region who stands out in an unpleasant way,” he said.

Stefanovic stressed that Vucic could not implement what was expected by European officials, which did not include only judicial laws, but also fair and democratic elections, curbing corruption, ending violence, and freedom of the press, because respecting the rule of law would mean that “the Serbian Progressive Party and Vucic are fighting against themselves.”