Repeating the Belgrade elections

05.march 2024 DW

"Noah Züricher Zeitung": They will neither be fair nor free

Even in the upcoming elections in Serbia, the starting position of the participants will not be fair. The government camp will no doubt use state resources and media dominance again. In addition, the divided opposition lacks a charismatic figure to present as an alternative to the omnipresent Vučić

Dobrica Veselinović

Beograd

01.march 2024 Sanja Zrnić

Veselinović: The constitutive session should not be held

It is scheduled for today at 10 a.m., and it is still uncertain whether the constituent session of the Belgrade City Assembly will take place at all. Dobrica Veselinović from the Green-Left Front tells "Vreme" that the position of the pro-European opposition remains the same - that the session should not take place because the official result of the December elections does not reflect the will of the citizens.

Post-election turmoil

25.April 2022. MN

Opposition wanderings: Who will with whom and under what conditions

Political scientist Boban Stojanović believes that Dragan Đilas more or less does not exist politically after the meeting with Aleksandar Vučić, while his colleague Vuk Velebit points out that in the end everyone who agreed or negotiated anything with Vučić was deceived. PSG leader Pavle Grbović defends Đilas and says that a pro-European coalition will be formed

Comment

18.April 2022. Andrei Ivanji

Aleksandar Vučić's hit-tweeting: Master of the election

If the Belgrade elections are indeed repeated, it will not be because of any legitimacy or concession to Dragan Đilas, but because of the behind-the-scenes calculations of Aleksandar Vučić, who has proven that he does not care about the legitimacy of anything. By the same logic, it would be better for the opposition parties to prepare just in case for a repeat of the early parliamentary elections held on April 3.

Analyze

11.April 2022. Andrei Ivanji

Conversation between Đilas and Vučić: United for victory in Belgrade in repeated elections

Đilas, he says, asked Vučić to lower the tensions in society and to repeat the elections in Belgrade because the majority that the SNS would have "would not have legitimacy". And it would be illegitimate, Đilas explains, because some parties that had declared themselves as opposition would jump over to the side of the progressives. So that the two of them, as the heads of their respective parties, should agree on this for the sake of the citizens of Belgrade. Vučić did not say anything after the conversation