Photo: Marija JankovićThe 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
In the first interview since accepting the presidential candidacy, Zdravko Ponoš says to "Vreme":
"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, 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 took it away from me."
Happy states and happy societies have one or two big problems. We have many of them, it is difficult to count them all. I think one of the biggest is that we have become a fragmented society that the regime divided into 'its own' and everyone else. That is their biggest sin. That is why the biggest challenge is to normalize this society because the current situation is not good for anyone".
"Unlike me, Vučić perceives the state as a private matter. It's no wonder since he spent too much time in Seselj's lap. Practically, the first job in his life was the Minister of Propaganda and that at the age when he was supposed to be a junior officer for labor law in a company. He was delighted with Max Weber at the age of 45, with a rifle at the age of 50, and read the Constitution only for the exam. I used to do things at a time when it was done. Some and a little earlier. I borrowed a rifle at the age of 15. In the military schools I went through, there were also telecommunications and civil-military relations, as well as Weber. The Constitution was at hand when I was Chief of the General Staff. When I am the president of the country, I will not read it for the first time".
"No one should allow themselves that kind of humiliation to fear if they don't 'bring' safe votes or a picture of a ballot. When the citizens wake up on April 4, the government will be changed. As before, they will go to work, but they will not have to account to anyone for how they voted, and no one will harass them because they voted this way or that way."
Read on full interview with Zdravko Ponoš in the weekly "Vreme" from Thursday, February 3
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