Photo: Zoran Zestić/TanjugThe question is whether repeating the elections at polling stations where there were irregularities in Belgrade will change the balance of power in favor of the opposition. However, the joint struggle of all opposition parties to respect the electoral will of the citizens certainly inspires hope. And ideology, in case the opposition wins the majority, should not be an obstacle. Because, well, they don't have to agree on Kosovo, Russia and NATO, but on water and sewerage and the criminal prosecution of those who, from the top of the previous city government, carried out criminal activities
A scene to remember: representatives of the United for the Victory of Serbia/Belgrade, Moramo, the coalition NADA, Dveri/POKS, Zavetnik and Let's People all together in front of the cameras, with one goal, that after all the irregularities, irregularities, pressures, malfeasance and abuse of the rulers until the end of the fight to respect the will of the people of Belgrade, and that, they say, is the change of government in Belgrade.
Dragan Đilas, as the host, in whose party premises the emergency meeting was held, said that a total of 70.000 citizens of Belgrade voted for a change of government, but that is not the point, because the electoral system is as it is, but that the voters on many polling stations were prevented from expressing their will freely, that in many polling stations their will was cheated, and that the entire opposition together will deliver to the City Election Commission (GIK) appeals with accompanying documentation.
The idea, Đilas explained, is to help the opposition colleagues from Ajmo ljudi (Boris Tadić/Duško Vujošević), who in Belgrade were 0,2 percent below the threshold of 3 percent, to get into the City Assembly in the repeated elections, and all with the ultimate goal to break Belgrade from the disastrous rule of Vesić/Vučić. Djilas explained that it is mathematically very possible and that Duleta should be voted for in the repeated elections.
It means: first, all together in a principled struggle for respecting the electoral will of the citizens of Belgrade, and then to see on what basis they could form a joint government in Belgrade.
The question is, of course, could it not have been done before the election? Not to go in a single column of confusingly tortured ideologies, but to give the voters, who recognize in the current city government a social sediment connected to financial interests, the assurance that no one will trick them, to further encourage them to go to the polling stations, because there is a chance for changes realistic.
And it is, of course, about communal elections. The parties do not need to agree on Kosovo or NATO and Russia, on where the heart of Serbia is, but on the water supply and sewerage system, the cleanliness of the air, the transparency of the City's functioning, the exposure of all the criminal acts that may have been committed in Belgrade, which fell into the water .
There is no inconsistency if you agree with ideological dissenters on a program for better functioning of communal services, city transport, development of Belgrade's infrastructure, green areas, the route of the metro, kindergartens...
In the first step, all opposition parties showed good will.
The question is, of course, whether all this is a little too little a little too late, and Aleksandar Vučić will not sit idly by and watch the stolen loot that he has already seen in his display cabinet with trophies taken from him.
All in all, the battle for Belgrade is still going on, the momentum could be on the side of the opposition, which has finally closed ranks. It seems that whether right or left and green, not enough people can simply watch Goran Vesić flaunt and disfigure Belgrade anymore.
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