Opposition Criticizes President's Visit to China

Branko Miljus (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

Opposition parties in Serbia have criticized President Aleksandar Vucic, who is visiting China, for his "relationship of servitude" toward the Chinese Communist Party and sale of natural resources to China and for turning the country into a Chinese colony.

"Since coming to power Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has been leading a propaganda campaign against Europe and European values,  and judging by everything, by visiting to the Communist Party of China's museum today has ritually renounced even the European People's Party which the Serbian Progressive Party is an associate member of," Freedom and Justice Party presidency member Branko Miljus said.

Miljus said that "for the sake of a last ditch attempt to stay in power for at least a little longer, Vucic is willing to turn Serbia into the only Chinese colony in the middle of Europe."

People's Movement of Serbia president Miroslav Aleksic said that Serbia paid for China's support "in gold," by giving it its copper and gold deposits in Bor worth USD200 billion.

He said that Serbia's citizens "have gotten a country led by a man willing to sell off its natural wealth and national resources to ensure the support of certain international power centers."

The Monarchists - Movement for the Kingdom of Serbia said that the Chinese medal that Vucic received "is a symbolic reward for selling off Serbia's national resources, after the Zijin company extracted billions of euros in profits from Serbia."

"Finally the first gold from China has arrived in Serbia, but not for the people, but in the form of a medal for Vucic. As the regime talks about a golden era, our real gold and copper is ending up in the hands of foreign companies, leaving Serbia with ecological devastation and a miserable mining rent, lower than in African countries," co-president of the Monarchists and MP of the National Democratic Alternative coalition Nenad Tomasevic said in a written statement.