The phrases "there will be no election" or "active boycott" are good for fiddles in like-minded social media groups, but they are not politics. It is fought tirelessly for every vote in every town and village. There is no other way
There are still 45 days until the elections in Belgrade and about a hundred other local governments. Now the progressives can say that they have fulfilled "all" the demands of the opposition, including the control of the voter list. The coalition "Serbia against violence" claims that it will make a joint decision, although the positions are different
A boycott is a bad option because it destroys the opposition fabric in the long term, Dobrica Veselinović from the Green-Left Front told Vreme. He says that "Serbia against violence" is faced with the question of whether to change, expand or narrow the coalition
In the 2019 local elections in Albania, the opposition boycotted the local elections with similar arguments that we hear today in Serbia. The turnout, according to official data, was slightly less than 23 percent. And what were the results of the boycott? None, Edi Rama and his compatriots "rocked" the bar until the end as they wanted. Has the international community been shaken? It's not. The more natural learning is imposed by itself
Will the rest of the local elections be held simultaneously with the Belgrade elections? Will the citizens of Belgrade go to the polls on June 2? Will the opposition participate in the elections? Or will they be boycotted? And if so, passive or active? And what does an "active" boycott even mean
We have already seen all of that, and that the opposition will not "give legitimacy", and that the boycott will "bare the government" and that there will be an "active boycott"... and it was all empty talk. And they are talking again, before the elections that can be won despite the theft of the regime
Last night, the Communist Party of Serbia called on citizens to boycott, Serbian Democracy today calls for a postponement of the process, and the Serbian List announces that they will not participate either.
Ana Brnabić announced the Belgrade elections for June 2. There is still a theoretical chance that Vučić will "interfere" and for the sake of "stability" perform a legal acrobatics so that the Belgrade and other local elections will be held on the same day. If that does not happen, the opposition will either go to the elections or try an "active" boycott. But not everyone is of the same opinion
"If there are no fair elections, then there won't be any," Miloš Jovanović, president of the New DSS, told Vreme. He does not believe that conditions will change and calls on the opposition and citizens to unite
If the conditions do not change, the opposition would have to be ready for a united boycott and call on the citizens to prevent the holding of the elections, several politicians told "Vreme". However, they are not revealing how exactly they want to prevent voting
Vučić's government will not improve the electoral conditions, but boycott must not be an option for the opposition, says the director of the Center for Practical Politics, Dragan Popović.
The word spread by the opposition representatives that it is certain that the Belgrade elections will be repeated cannot find a positive response in the electorate to which they are addressing. It sounds defeatist and demoralizing
The tendency to interpret the fight for fair elections as a call for a boycott rests on a loser mentality according to which it is impossible to achieve anything from the regime, Miodrag Jovanović, one of the initiators of ProGlas, who is looking for "minimum conditions" for the elections, told Vreme.
What questions does the List of basic and concrete minimum conditions for new elections raise? And how the Prime Minister of Serbia supported these demands in her own way
The big film festival in Berlin starts tonight, in the hope of the organizers that they will not be caught by "Strike Germans" and that the cancellation of the film by the director from Ghana will be the only one for now. The film "Sve te snitnice", which opens the Berlinale, was filmed based on the novel recently published by "Geopoetica".
Russian artists are massively against the war in Ukraine, even though they are being fired. Leading figures of Ukrainian culture demand the world to boycott Russian artists and their works. Many large institutions have listened to them. There are also those who believe that it is against art
The Ne davimo Belgrade movement started a campaign in which it invites citizens to go to the referendum on January 16 and round up NE. Opinions on this matter differ even within the opposition
The Americans are diplomatically boycotting the Chinese Winter Olympics. Beijing replies that they were not even called and told Biden that at the Democracy Summit, to which he did not invite the Chinese, they should compare the numbers regarding the pandemic - 4.636 deaths from covid in China and 787.695 in the USA
