While the expelled members of the movement call for no vote for Nestorovic, the famous doctor is struggling with mysterious medical problems and claims to have the support of Moscow. Can he do anything in the elections?
The saga surrounding the movement "We - the power of the people" of doctors continues Branimir Nestorović, although one part of the mystery is somewhat solved.
When his - former - comrades from the movement claimed that he doesn't contact them for days and that they don't know where he is, Nestorović appeared at a bizarre press conference.
With a sunken face, a visibly changed appearance, speaking weakly, he talked about betrayal, the attempt to take away his movement and "500.000 euros" of campaign funds, and how he has Moscow's blessing to gather pro-Russian forces.
On Friday (September 18), the movement finally confirmed that Nestorović is in the hospital again, but did not say why.
"After detailed examinations, eminent experts from the University Clinical Center of Serbia decided to keep Professor Nestorović in the hospital for additional monitoring and therapy, in order to ensure his full and speedy recovery," they stated in the statement.
They informed with "joy" that Nestorović's condition is stable and that he will return in a few days.
What would Nestorović return to? A new episode of the saga and already the third splitting of the movement based on the joviality and charisma of Nestorović began when several seen members and deputies stated that the authorities were trying to force that movement into a coalition with the Movement of Socialists Aleksandar Vulin.
It ended with the expulsion of those members, which they contested, claiming it was illegal.
One of them, Borislav Antonijević, confirmed earlier that Nestorović was hospitalized. He rejected claims that they tried to "take over" the movement, but confirmed that he once went to talks with the brother of the Serbian president, Andrej Vučić.
"I was delegated for that meeting by President Branimir Nestorović. Some of our activists in Vojvodina, on the street, had problems and it was said that he could solve it with one call," said Antonijević.
This is based on stories that Andrej Vučić controls the boards of the Serbian Progressive Party and the black party coffers, especially in Vojvodina.
MP Branko Lukić added: "What they did with Doctor Nestorović, who is very ill, and how they convinced him to act illegally, I cannot get into that. But everything about our exclusion was done against the acts," said Lukić.
In the end, nothing will come of the coalition with Vulin's movement. The Socialist Movement announced that it does not want to be the reason for the split of Nestorović's movement or his impaired health.
Nestorović himself confirmed at the aforementioned conference that he remains in the coalition only with the People's Party.
As he said, at the end of August he stayed in Moscow, where, he says, he was "received at the highest level" and where his "party received the status of a strategic partner".
"We had an agreement with people from the Russian Federation to gather as many Russophile and pro-Russian forces as possible, because there is an enormous amount of such parties and movements in Serbia, but for some strange reason they don't unite very much," he said.
Within that, he continued, was Vulin's Movement of Socialists. "There was a bit of tension because I thought that (coalition with Vulin) would lower our rating," Nestorović added.
That group has not yet collected signatures, and it is not known whether it is collecting them. While the expelled members urged not to vote for them at all, considering that Nestorovic was "processed" and actually a player of the government.
According to a recently published survey by the Faktor plus agency, which is close to the authorities, Nestorović's movement would have around 2,9 percent of support. According to the research of the New Serbian Political Thought - admittedly from July, before this saga - Nestorović could count with 3,8 percent.
In the 2023 elections, as many as 179.000 citizens voted for Nestorović and his team, which was enough for nearly 4,8 percent of the vote and 13 mandates.
The question is how many voters are still ready to support Nestorović, who entered the general public as the cheerful face of the pandemic and an opponent of vaccination, after which he moved on to theories about aliens and the like.
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