Zdravko Ponos (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
The government is intentionally releasing information or disinformation on the date of elections, even through diplomatic channels but several indicators that elections will be called soon are missing, Serbia Center party leader Zdravko Ponos said on April 28.
He said that pension and public sector salary hikes should be expected before the elections but that this had not happened yet.
"[Serbian President Aleksandar] Vucic is also not creating new opposition players, nor reheating political stiffs. The state treasury is empty and he will be going to China for money only at the end of May. He has succeeded in rescheduling the debt by a year with the Emirates, while bonds that are supposed to fill up the gap in the budget have been released just now. In May there will be an exercise with NATO, which is not good for his electorate ahead of elections," the party quoted Ponos as telling N1 TV.
He said that Vucic was "revving the engine of" the election story with the intention of weakening the student ticket as his main opponent, to "finally learn those 250 names so that he knows who to attack directly and how."
He added that another indicator that elections would not be held soon was Vucic's announced unveiling of the results of "major projects," including humanoid robots in six months.
"He always has something to fascinate his voters ahead of elections. This opening of small pieces of roads or plans to visit villages in an ambulance, appears to be a lower profile campaign than the kind that precedes elections, elections that will be much more uncertain than previous ones at that," Ponos said.
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