League of Social Democratis of Vojvodina (LSV) leader Nenad Canak said on Tuesday that the boycott that the opposition is calling for is a new, more dangerous version of blank ballots.

He said that the point of this boycott is not to take legitimacy away from the elections (as the opposition did in 1993 forcing the authorities to call fresh elections just three months later) but to create an impression that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is a dictator with no opposition in parliament and that the only way the authorities can be toppled is through street protests, Canak told Belgrade daily Danas.  

He warned that, unlike the people defending the election results on October 5, 2000 when the Milosevic regime was toppled, this time the streets would be filled with “Russian tanks and fans of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.