Photo: Milica Vučković/FoNetThe pro-European opposition is going to the elections in unison. "Vremen" interlocutors say that this is the best solution that will push even undecided voters to the polls
It is certain that the pro-European opposition will go to the elections as a single party, several "Vremena" sources confirm.
The list, which would be called "Serbia against violence", will include the parliamentary parties that organized the protests, as well as Zdravko Ponoš's HEART and several people from Boris Tadić's SDS.
In the previous days, the negotiations on the division of the mandate and the list holder were brisk, there was anger and leaving the meetings, but in the end the conviction prevailed that one column guarantees the best result in the elections.
The former Prime Minister of Vojvodina, Bojan Pajtić, also thinks so. He says for "Vreme" that a fragmented opposition would risk many parties remaining below the threshold.
"The synergistic effect should not be neglected either. A large number of people say they are in favor of the opposition, but they are undecided about who they would choose. "One column gives them the wind behind them to go to the polls," says Pajtić.
Easier and more controlled choices
Law professor Vesna Rakić-Vodinelić says that citizens expected the opposition that organized the protests to act united. "In addition, in elections that are turning points, and for these at least one can intuitively feel that they are such, joining together on a common European platform will have a better electoral effect," she says for "Vreme".
"Besides, the wider and more coherent the grouping, the easier it is to organize citizens to participate in electoral committees," adds Rakić-Vodinelić.
As we wrote earlier, the civil opposition paid special attention to the arrangement of the first 70 names on the list, which are considered to be sure to enter the Assembly, because for such a number of mandates, about 25 percent of the votes should be won.
Elections for parliament, Vojvodina, Belgrade and about sixty other cities and municipalities should be held on December 17. President Aleksandar Vučić would then have to dissolve the Assembly by next Thursday, and he confirmed that he will do so during his appearance on Dnevnik on RTS on Wednesday.
Read Nedim Sejdinović's text "One column, but what" in the weekly "Vreme" from Thursday (October 26)
Subscribe to the digital edition
Read daily news, analysis, commentary and interviews at www.vreme.com
A group of individuals has created two websites where public procurement of the Telecom and IT sectors can be searched and compared. They invite the media, experts and citizens to review the documentation and submit reasoned observations
Very soon it could become obvious whether Milan Radoičić has left Serbia or not
The hospital formed a commission for an extraordinary expert check and informed the health inspection. Cases of death during childbirth in Serbia rarely receive a judicial epilogue.
Two unions of public services supported the request of FDU students for information about RTS employees, since claims appeared in the public that it was a request for "files". The students say they are looking for "public truth about public service."
Among those pardoned is the man who attacked a citizen who came to ask about the street in the office of the mayor of Kosjerić in April. The pardon applies only to one of the two offenses, and the injured party announces a constitutional appeal.
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
