Photo: FoNetSSP Vice-President Borko Stefanović and other high-ranking officials withdrew from the "European Serbia" list because they do not agree with going to the elections, it was confirmed for "Vreme". This made this list even more empty
In fact, "European Serbia" intended to submit signatures on Sunday (September 20). voting. Now that grouping, which consists of the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP), SRCE and the Solidarity movement, is facing a new fallout.
As it was unofficially confirmed for "Vreme", four more high-ranking officials of the SSP withdrew from the list because they are against this type of participation in the elections.
As first reported by the Nova portal, they are party vice-presidents Borko Stefanović and Goran Petrović, and party leaders in Nis and Novi Sad, Jelena Milošević and Vladimir Vrsajkov.
Previously, the former general secretary Peđa Mitrović and the head of the party's Belgrade committee, Mila Popović, did the same.
They do not agree with the decision of the party leadership to participate in the extraordinary parliamentary elections on October 25 in a narrowed coalition.
SRCE Presidency members Slobodan Petrović and Boško Šindić also withdrew their names and left the party.
Slobodan Petrović announced on the X social network that as a member of parliament and vice president of the Serbia Center party, he made a decision to support students in the parliamentary elections.
"Why exactly at this moment? At the session of the Party Presidency that was held on Friday evening, I confirmed my decision that I do not want to be a candidate for MP," Petrović wrote.
As he stated, he did not announce this decision earlier because "with a certain number of his colleagues, he believed until the last moment that there was a chance to fight within the party to change the previously adopted position".
"Unfortunately, we didn't make it," he said.
"In the Srce party, there is a huge number of hardworking, honorable and honest people who have made various sacrifices all these years in the fight against this government. No one asked a large number of those people in a timely manner about the decision not to go to the elections and support the students, perhaps because they, like me, feel the same, which is that the decision to go to the elections at this crucial historical moment is deeply wrong," Petrović wrote.
The party, on the other hand, issued a statement in which it is stated that the former members of the Presidency have not questioned their participation in the elections so far.
Previously, the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) refused to participate in the elections in a coalition with these three pro-European parties because there was no consolidation on the opposition side of the political scene.
A part of the opposition parties supported the Student List a priori for the sake of the "referendum atmosphere" and made its logistics available to it.
Previously, the Green-Left Front did something similar.
It seems that in "European Serbia" there is a commotion similar to what happened in the "People's Serbia" coalition, which, under the pressure of the membership, first announced and then gave up participating in the elections and sided with the students.
There is a possibility that the opposition coalitions, including the "Authentic Right", between the two dominant blocs, "Aleksandar Vučić - United Serbia" and "Studentska lista - Students are winning", will not succeed in crossing the threshold of three percent and thus threaten the change that is floating in the air.
*the text was subsequently supplemented with a statement by Slobodan Petrović
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