"Postponing the Belgrade elections to June is not a concession," political analyst Dragomir Anđelković told Vreme
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić announced on Sunday that new elections in Belgrade will be held on June 2.
In an address from the Presidency of Serbia, Vučić said that the elections in Belgrade will be announced on April 3.
The representatives of the opposition assess that Vučić is forced to give up holding the elections on April 28, as he previously proposed, and demand that new elections be held under fair conditions.
New elections are being held in Belgrade because after the vote on December 17, there was no agreement on the formation of the government in the capital of Serbia.
Political analyst Dragomir Anđelković tells "Vreme" that Vučić is trying to create the appearance that he is making concessions and that he is ready to make compromises regarding the elections.
Fake implementation
"His goal is actually to falsely implement the OIDHR recommendations and not change anything." "He is afraid of an international investigation because if the European Commission makes a decision to accept the recommendations of the European Parliament, he will have an international investigation and that is a big problem for him," Anđelković says.
He adds that the investigation would show that the elections in Serbia are rigged and that the proverbial system is set up in such a way that it drastically favors the government.
"That's why Vučić is now postponing the elections and acting apparently leniently, but I think that the opposition must not agree to that." They must insist on a complete change of election rules in accordance with the recommendations of the OSCE," Anđelković concludes.
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is in the report stated that in the elections on December 17, the conditions were not equal for everyone because the dominant participation of President Vučić was in them.
It is added that pressures on employees in the public sector to vote for the government, misuse of public resources in its favor and Vučić's media dominance have been recorded.
Vučić said on Sunday that it is "very important" to fulfill the ODIHR's recommendations.
He said that the members of his Serbian Progressive Party asked for the elections to be held on April 28, but that he said that he asked them for the elections to be held on June 2.
The President of Serbia said that the constitutive session of the National Assembly will be postponed for a week, but that everything will be within the legal and constitutional deadline.
During the summer, 120 bottles and cans of spirits, wine and beer were purchased for the needs of the municipal buffet in Kuršumlja, and in the new call, 240 units of various alcoholic beverages are requested.
The third primary public prosecutor's office announced that the directors of "Millennium Team" Ivan Bošnjak and Ivan Vujko were interrogated by the police, from where they were released, and then a warrant was issued for their arrest.
Has the time of responsibility really come and who could be the first to feel it? All this is discussed, analyzed and commented on by Sloba Georgijev, Željko Bodrožić and Igor Božić in the new episode of the podcast "This Situation".
Prosecutor Branko Stamenković in the cover interview of "Vremena" talks about the political background of Nenad Stefanović, the bizarre behavior in the "sound cannon" case and announces the criminal and disciplinary prosecution of some prosecutors
Economist Milojko Arsić expects a drop in employment in companies that operated with the support of the outgoing government. For Vreme, he talks about how to save jobs and what threatens public finances due to the debts of the city of Belgrade and Telekom
At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vučić's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
Vučić pardoned the batterers and Dijana Hrkalović. The election winners should abolish the sultan's power that allows one man to run afoul of the entire judicial system
Interview: Branko Stamenković, public prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office
A black picture and the breakdown of the rule of law subscribeThe archive of the weekly Vreme includes all our digital editions, since the very beginning of our work. All issues can be downloaded in PDF format, by purchasing the digital edition, or you can read all available texts from the selected issue.
See all
