Photo: Bojan StekićFormer presidential candidate and head of Generalshab Zdravko Ponoš founds a political movement. He says that he will advocate for membership in the European Union, but only when the conditions are met. The nearly 700.000 votes he won in the April 3 elections are an excellent basis for establishing a new political organization
The presidential candidate of the "United for the Victory of Serbia" coalition in the elections held on April 3 Zdravko Ponoš he said that the political organization he is founding will be a movement, because it is easier to form a movement than a political party.
"Somehow, something called a movement is more acceptable to people than a party, and from the point of view of political engagement and activism, it's not so important what your name is, but what you do," Ponoš told TV Nova S.
And further: the orientation of his movement will be advocating for Serbia's membership in the European Union, but "when the time comes, when they have the appetite, and we are in a good condition for it".
When asked if Sava Manojlović, Dejan Bodiroga and Bishop Grigorije were in his team, Ponoš answered that Manojlović was not, and for the other two: "The other people mentioned are people with whom I gladly talk, consult, help on some of the possible ways in this situation", but that there is no membership yet.
In the presidential elections held on April 3, in unequal conditions, the former head of Generalshatab was in second place with 18,40 percent (698.497) of votes behind Aleksandar Vučić, who won in the first round with 58,58 percent (2.224.555) of votes. Vučić did not accept a TV duel with Ponoš.
After the election, the coalition "United for the Victory of Serbia" fell apart.
"Citizens of Serbia should take their destiny into their own hands. This is done in elections. I will tell them - you don't owe the state anything, the state owes you. Don't let someone take something from you, rubbing your eyes that they have the right to it. No one has the right to take your youth, no one has the right to steal your house and field for lithium, no one has the right to take your pension - it's yours. No one has the right to take away your future. Whatever the government, you have the right to take matters into your own hands. The state is your property, and you are not the property of a corrupt and private state. And that what was taken from you is never returned on a spoon saying "I gave it to you". You didn't give me anything, you stole it from me," said Ponoš in an interview with "Vreme" under the title Fit for president in February this year.
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