The Serbian opposition is trying to instrumentalise international institutions, the OSCE, and all foreign embassies because it is preparing for failure in the elections it itself demanded, said Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić.
“They demanded that elections be held by the end of the year, parliamentary and local together. Now they are turning to the international community and foreign embassies and trying to postpone the elections and change the decision that there will be elections at all,” claimed Brnabić.
When asked if the demands she outlined in the official letter to the OSCE, in which she requested the consideration of sending a mission of experts to assess the pre-election environment and election preparations, differ from those mentioned by some members of the opposition in their letter to the international community, she responded that the y are not similar.
“We are serious and concrete, while they are unserious in everything they do. They are trying to involve a foreign factor in causing unrest, which has never succeeded so far, and I don’t think it will succeed,” the prime minister said.
Ana Brnabić dismissed criticisms from opposition representatives that nothing has been done to improve electoral conditions.
She said Serbia has implemented 79% of OSCE recommendations within two electoral cycles.
(Jelena Jevtić | EURACTIV.rs)
Read more with EURACTIV
Polish government, opposition commit to media freedom ahead of elections
Source: euractiv.com
