Member of the People's Party in the Belgrade Assembly, Miloš Pavlović, said today that the People's Party and the coalition United for the Victory of Belgrade did not give a mandate to the President of the Freedom and Justice Party, Dragan Đilas, to negotiate with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, about repeating the elections in Belgrade.
"Đilas gave a private statement about the talks and negotiations with Vučić about repeating the elections in Belgrade. The session of the Presidency of the People's Party will be held on Saturday, and then we will take a position on that issue," Pavlović told N1.
He pointed out that the agreement on repeating the elections in Belgrade before the announcement of the final results and the attempt to form the city government would be "playing with the electoral will of the voters". "We have a Constitution and a law that clearly define the procedure for repeating the election." I think we can come to power even before the repeated elections for the Assembly of Belgrade", said Pavlović and added that it is necessary to first determine the final results of the elections for the city parliament, when it will be seen who has the majority, whether the majority can be formed and whether it is sustainable, "and only if that is not possible, then a decision should be made to call new elections in accordance with the Constitution and the law".
He said that they expect the election to be repeated in a much larger number of the four polling stations, as well as that "Bulgarian trains" and the installation of cameras have been observed. Pavlović stated that if the Let the People coalition enters the city parliament, the number of SNS councilors will be reduced, and the number of opposition councilors who would have a majority will be increased.
He explained that the change of government in Belgrade would mean "the end of SNS and Aleksandar Vučić", despite Vučić's convincing victory in the presidential elections. "Local elections in all of Serbia will be held in two years, and the victory in Belgrade would spread to cities and municipalities throughout Serbia," Pavlović said.
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