Students demanded extraordinary parliamentary elections, but the behavior of certain opposition parties is indicative. It's as if they don't want to give up a piece of the cake or have other interests
Some will slip away and give all their resources to the students in the elections. On the other side are those who don't seem to think about it. Before the representatives opposition is an important decision – whether to vote, even though they know that the student list is the only one that has a chance of defeating SNS.
Money or something else
Those who want to leave at any cost probably do so in order not to run out of money that is received, either for participating in the elections or for working in the National Assembly. Because, small parties that pass the census often live off the money they get from working in parliament.
Nevertheless, the years behind us have shown that the parties that undermined the election boycott from the opposition when it was massive, actually helped the progressives to a large extent to cement power and maintain the semblance of an open parliament that functions in a multi-party system.
Who will stand with the students?
Some of them gave a preliminary answer to this question, such as the Democratic Party, whose president said that if the students were involved in the elections, this party would give up all its infrastructure and expertise to help the students in the elections. The party, Srđan Milivojević said in Utsik Sunday, will not participate in that race.
The Presidency of the Movement of Free Citizens, as they state, unanimously made a decision to provide full support to the students and their request to call extraordinary parliamentary elections as "the only peaceful solution to the deep political crisis."
"Despite the position we have advocated for months that the progressives should not be allowed to organize elections by their own rules, which is why we proposed the transitional government model back in December, we believe that the student movement, as the strongest political group, has full legitimacy to propose further steps in the fight, and that it is up to other political actors to help them as much as possible," the PSG statement said.
The Ecological Uprising movement was among the first to send support to students. In a statement, they called on all environmental organizations and citizens to support them in this.
The Green-Left Front also believes that the request for parliamentary elections is justified and calls for a discussion. "The question of election conditions remains open and we are open to cooperation and support for students. We all need to join forces, especially bearing in mind the theft that we have to count on, and we hope that concrete modalities will be discussed soon. The first and most important goal for us is the replacement of this criminal government, so with that in mind, we will support the solution that leads to that goal the fastest and most safely," the ZLF said in a statement.
The leader of the Kreni-Promeni movement, Savo Manojlović, in a statement supported the announced students' participation in the elections and said that students have become the key initiators of social change, establishing a unique organizational mass, which the previous opposition party structures have not been able to achieve.
Who wants to go out?
The president of the People's Party, Vladimir Gajić, said that it is good that the students asked for early elections because now everything is clear and it is up to the government to decide whether to accept the request, and to the opposition whether to cease to exist. Since, according to him, she is being asked to commit political suicide and not participate in the elections.
Gajić said that the student-professor list could be the biggest opponent of the government in the elections, because students are stronger than any opposition party, but that he thinks it is unrealistic for the opposition to stand aside and vote for the student list.
"The People's Party will certainly not give up its existence and it is out of the question not to go to the elections and at the same time support the student list," Gajić told Blic.
Who else thinks?
The president of the New Democratic Party of Serbia (New DSS), Miloš Jovanović, said that the request of the students in the blockade to call for extraordinary parliamentary elections is a wrong step because, according to him, the elections under the current conditions suit only Aleksandar Vučić.
The Freedom and Justice Party announced that it is ready to talk with all forces in society that would form a united front and that it is ready to support any solution that leads to victory in the fight against the regime of the Serbian Progressive Party, regardless of party interests.
"We believed that the best way to fight for this is by forming a transitional government, but we are ready to discuss other modalities as well. It is a very dangerous thesis that is emerging among the public - that even with these election conditions, a list drawn up or supported by students would surely win," the statement of the SSP states.
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