Serbian Maidan activists again threaten unrest in Belgrade
Serbia's pro-Western opposition has demanded that President Aleksandar Vucic not participate in any way in the upcoming parliamentary campaign, where pollsters predict the pro-presidential Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) will win first place, polling several times more than the opposition.
Maidan activists from the Union for Serbia voiced such demands at the next round of negotiations with the authorities, which took place at the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade. Like last time, the two-hour meeting was closed to the press, but its details have already leaked to local media.
Present at the negotiations from the authorities were the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Stabilization and Association Vladimir Orlich, acting. SNS Chairman Darko Glisic, a number of deputies. And from the opposition - the scandalous mayor of Sabac Nebojsa Zelenovic, the leader of the Democratic Party Zoran Lutovac, Miroslav Aleksic from the People's Party and others.
The only wish of the opposition this time was that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic not participate in the election campaign.
Janko Veselinović, one of the leaders of the Union, in the absence of his boss, the ex-mayor of Belgrade, oligarch Dragan Djilas, who is now on vacation in Greece, even threatened to take his supporters to the streets, threatening riots if their demand was not met within seven days.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Nebojsa Zelenovic said the Union would not participate in the elections unless “fair conditions” were met.
President of the Open Society Foundation Milan Antonijevic, one of the organizers of the negotiations, announced that the next meeting, dedicated to the situation around the media (the opposition demands greater representation on government platforms), will take place in ten days.
He said that the opposition still has a demand to remove all members of the body dealing with electronic media (EMB) and elect a new composition. Also, opponents of the authorities want the dismissal of directors and members of the Anti-Corruption Agency.
Such demands of the Maidan activists look quite interesting against the background of the fact that an anti-corruption investigation is ongoing in relation to the aforementioned Djilas in Serbia for fraud with advertising on state TV, when the current oppositionist held high positions in power.
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