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The pro-European opposition is going to the elections in unison. "Vremen" interlocutors say that this is the best solution that will push even undecided voters to the polls
It is certain that the pro-European opposition will go to the elections as a single party, several "Vremena" sources confirm.
The list, which would be called "Serbia against violence", will include the parliamentary parties that organized the protests, as well as Zdravko Ponoš's HEART and several people from Boris Tadić's SDS.
In the previous days, the negotiations on the division of the mandate and the list holder were brisk, there was anger and leaving the meetings, but in the end the conviction prevailed that one column guarantees the best result in the elections.
The former Prime Minister of Vojvodina, Bojan Pajtić, also thinks so. He says for "Vreme" that a fragmented opposition would risk many parties remaining below the threshold.
"The synergistic effect should not be neglected either. A large number of people say they are in favor of the opposition, but they are undecided about who they would choose. "One column gives them the wind behind them to go to the polls," says Pajtić.
Easier and more controlled choices
Law professor Vesna Rakić-Vodinelić says that citizens expected the opposition that organized the protests to act united. "In addition, in elections that are turning points, and for these at least one can intuitively feel that they are such, joining together on a common European platform will have a better electoral effect," she says for "Vreme".
"Besides, the wider and more coherent the grouping, the easier it is to organize citizens to participate in electoral committees," adds Rakić-Vodinelić.
As we wrote earlier, the civil opposition paid special attention to the arrangement of the first 70 names on the list, which are considered to be sure to enter the Assembly, because for such a number of mandates, about 25 percent of the votes should be won.
Elections for parliament, Vojvodina, Belgrade and about sixty other cities and municipalities should be held on December 17. President Aleksandar Vučić would then have to dissolve the Assembly by next Thursday, and he confirmed that he will do so during his appearance on Dnevnik on RTS on Wednesday.
Read Nedim Sejdinović's text "One column, but what" in the weekly "Vreme" from Thursday (October 26)
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