‘Serbia against violence’ opposition supporters to unite in elections

Various Serbian opposition parties will join together at the 17 December elections following cooperation in the parliament and the protest organisation ‘Serbia against violence’.

The opposition parties uniting include the Party of Freedom and Justice, the People’s Movement of Serbia, the Green-Left Front / Not drowning Belgrade, Heart, the Ecological Uprising, the Democratic Party, the Movement of Free Citizens, and the Party Together.

The holders of the list in the republican elections will be Miroslav Aleksić and Marinika Tepić, while the first on the list will be Radomir Lazović. In the Belgrade elections, the candidates will be Dobrica Veselinović and Vladimir Obradović, and the first on the list will be Mila Popović.

Obradović will be the first candidate of the pro-European opposition bloc for mayor of Belgrade. List holders for the provincial elections will be announced later in Novi Sad.

As they stated at the press conference, the joint performance in the elections was achieved based on good cooperation in the parliament, the cooperative protest organisation “Serbia against violence”, and numerous other actions.

These parties had previously signed the “Agreement for Victory”, that is an agreement to decide, based on research, whether one or more columns of the pro-European opposition will go to the elections.

As they announced, all the research indicated that there is an excellent synergy of joint action, and that is why they decided to go to the elections together.

According to the announcement, these elections were demanded and fought for to fulfil the demands of the “Serbia against violence” protest as a first step:

“We want to organise Serbia so that it is not run by people connected to organised crime and so that we are not poisoned by the air we breathe or the food we eat. We want to invest in education, to create opportunities for young people, and not have them leave us in search of a better life”, announced the pro-European opposition parties.

(Milena Antonijević/EURACTIV.rs)