The first man of Dveri, Boško Obradović, talks to "Vreme" about the upcoming elections, ideas for supporting the domestic economy and why he is still against homosexual marriage.
Dveri leader Boško Obradović claims in an interview for "Vreme" that there is "panic" on the political scene since it was measured back in October that his coalition with the Zavetniki could get up to 11 percent of the votes in Sunday's elections.
He says that since then there has been a strong negative campaign against them because they have become "the second strongest political force".
"For us, all major media are banned, unlike all others from the opposition who normally visit there." "Now it is clear who is the main obstacle to the ruling regime and whose rating is constantly increasing," claims Obradović.
And he explains: "We are banned because we represent an alternative to both the current and former government, and because many disillusioned former voters and supporters of the parties of the ruling regime are turning to our electoral list because they see the future in us."
In power only if it is "sovereignist"
Obradović says about the possibility of Dveri and Zavetnica entering into a coalition with the Progressives and Socialists:
"We are the opposition, we have never been in power or in cooperation with the current government. "Our goal is to change the SNS government at all levels: from the republic to the provincial to the local, and especially in Belgrade, where the proud, incompetent and corrupt progressive government disgusted the people of Belgrade," he says.
He adds that after the elections, it will not be a question of who they will be with, but who will be in a coalition with them, because it will be difficult to form a government at any level without the National Gathering.
He emphasizes, however, that he will not go to power with those who are in favor of the Franco-German "ultimatum", sanctions against Russia or Serbia's membership in NATO. "And there are them both in the pro-Western government and in the pro-Western opposition. We will remain in the opposition if we are unable to form a government based on our sovereignist programmatic foundations, and family and social policy, economic and environmental patriotism and cultural identity policy are also particularly important here," adds Obradović.
The goals of the coalition are the establishment of domestic banks that encourage development, exports and agriculture, then tax breaks for the IT sector and freelancers, the replacement of imports with domestic production, the obligation of state institutions and public companies to purchase domestic goods, vouchers for the poor to purchase basic foodstuffs of domestic origin …
Next, he says, is the renovation of the maternity hospital, tax reform and reductions in income and property taxes for anyone who gets married and has a child, an increase in the minimum pension and a reduction in the retirement age.
"We will provide 20.000 dinars to each student every September 1st, free textbooks for all students, not only in Belgrade, 1000 apartments per year for educational and health workers and 200 kilometers of new rural paved roads in all municipalities in Serbia." Those are essential priorities, not the National Stadium, EXPO or the Nis-Pristina road," says Obradović.
"Marriage is the union of a man and a woman"
Has anything changed in Dveri's attitude towards the rights of LGBT persons and minorities? Obradović says that all citizens of Serbia must have all the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
He says that it does not occur to them to interfere in anyone's privacy, on the contrary, they fight for the protection of the right to privacy.
"But we do not agree with the imposition of a new ideology that is contrary to public morality and our traditional and family values." For us, as in our Constitution, marriage is the union of a man and a woman," says Obradović.
"We are against the concept of parent number 1 and parent number 2 and the ideology of gender change that confuses our children in the most sensitive, teenage period of life. It is not acceptable for us to promote to children that they can feel like a woman in the morning, a man in the afternoon, and an intersex in the evening," he states.
"It is against our civilization and we will always be against it, as well as against homosexual marriage and the possibility to adopt children." Nothing has changed there, nor will it change in our beliefs," concluded Obradović in an interview with "Vreme".
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