Djilas: Regime Is Falling Apart, but Terror Is on the Rise

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Party of Freedom and Justice leader Dragan Djilas said on Oct. 17 that the fight against the regime will continue even after the election boycott, stronger and more determined, adding that the first results of the battle are already visible – “The regime is falling apart, but the terror is on the rise.”

“If someone was to say three days ago that the police would arrest a man who gave us the evidence against Stefanovic’s father, we’d ask why him, for surely if there was anything criminal going on, they’d arrest Stefanovic (Minister of the Interior) and his father; but no, they arrested the man who provided the documents which speak of what’s going on inside the company,” stated Djilas in an interview for Novi Magazin.

“We’ll boycott these elections, we’ll get the new conditions, new energy will be created, and almost four million people will go out to vote in these new elections,” added Djilas.

“Even today the ratio of pro-government and pro-opposition voters is such – and Srdjan Bogosavljevic, with whom I frequently disagree, says so – that the voting potential of the opposition is 1.6 million votes as opposed to the government’s 1.8 million. One million and six hundred thousand – in these conditions,” Djilas stressed.

Djilas said that the main feeling he got from the boycott campaign is – fear. In all the places the Alliance for Serbia had campaigned, he explained, people showed fear. At the same time, if Vucic was to suddenly lose the office, 80 percent of the people would not even know it had happened.

“Vucic rules Serbia by the means of smoke and mirrors, and fear,” he added.

He also claims that the Democratic Party owes him nothing.

“The debt I took over from the bank, lifting the mortgage on the apartments was paid off after four years. I didn’t take a penny over that from the Democratic Party, and every dinar from the interest that by law belongs to me – the sum now amounts to EUR200,000 – was transferred, as agreed with the party leadership, to the account of the Ljuba Davidovic Foundation for the Development of Democracy,”  Djilas explained.

When asked about Kosovo, Djilas said that he would “never sign an agreement which recognizes Kosovo’s independence as it is against our laws, the international law, and goes against notions such as morality and honor, which I still believe in.”

“On the other hand, I wouldn’t close my eyes before the truth of what Kosovo has become in past 20 years, nor would I waste time buying back ‘de-recognition’ of Kosovo from some islets Pacolli had bought off a few years ago,” Djilas concluded.