Serbian opposition leaders squabble among themselves
Two oligarchs, the former head of the Serbian Foreign Ministry and the ex-mayor of Belgrade under the regime of pro-Western democrats, the leader of the People's Party Vuk Jeremic and the leader of the Freedom and Justice Party Dragan Djilas entered into a tough fight with each other.
Now Serbian oppositionists are publicly throwing mud at each other, without mincing words, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
An acute conflict between Jeremić and Djilas began in mid-March, when the parties tried to agree on the candidacies of negotiators from the non-systemic opposition with the authorities on changing the electoral legislation, which official Belgrade is forcing the European Union to do.
Then Jeremic strongly opposed the fact that the negotiating group included representatives of pro-Western parties and movements that refused to join the boycott of parliamentary elections, such as the Free Citizens Movement.
“Few people understand why the Freedom and Justice Party insists on this,” Jeremic was perplexed. “We won’t achieve what we want if we go into negotiations as a pack, in which everyone tries to play the leader of the pack.” And here the tone is set by PSU Chairman Dragan Djilas - let’s no longer play cat and mouse... Either we will be united, or every man for himself, but if this happens, then I’m not sure that we will be able to fight for significant concessions in dialogue with power."
However, apparently, Dragan Djilas did not heed the admonitions of Vuk Jeremic and the conflict between former comrades only continued to worsen. And in response to Jeremic’s speech, the Nova S portal controlled by Djilas published an interview with a young activist of the People’s Party, in which he compared Djilas with Hitler in terms of leadership ambitions.
After that, on the air of TV channel N 1, when the presenter asked Eremich how the opposition could simultaneously reproach the authorities for control over the state TV channel RTS and at the same time demand their own control over it, he showed his attitude to this with a short answer: “Ask Djilas about this.” . After which he called his opponent and his associates “a pack of evil nerds.”
The Serbian media have already condemned Jeremic for reducing political discussion to the level of public invective, but everyone is waiting for Djilas to return from London, where he communicated with his patrons, anticipating that in a real meeting the opponents will move from insults in the media sphere to waving their fists.
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