Most of Serbia’s opposition rejects document on election conditions

NEWS 18.09.202116:30 0 komentara
Rade Prelić/Tanjug

Most of the opposition in Serbia, which participates in the inter-party dialogue with the mediation of MEPs, rejected the document for improving the election conditions. The authorities have previously accepted the formation of a body that will supervise the media, as well as changes in the composition of the Republic Election Commission (REC) so that representatives of the opposition are included as well. The parties that refused on Friday to take part in the continuation of the inter-party dialogue were joined on Saturday by a part of those who sat down at the negotiating table with representatives of the authorities and the European Parliament, who also rejected the proposal.

Nebojsa Zelenovic from the party ‘Together for Serbia’ stated after the session of the inter-party dialogue on Saturday that the proposal for improving the election conditions does not contain anything that was proposed by the opposition and that the government „does not allow fair elections“.

„None of what the opposition was looking for was found in the document that was discussed,“ Zelenovic said.

He said that his party did not agree to „in any way“ support the document, because „there is nothing in the conclusions that can improve the election conditions.“

„Insufficient progress to change the decision“

The People’s Party Deputy Leader Miroslav Aleksic stated that the opposition received a document „which is the fruit of an agreement between the government and the MEPs“.

„Very little or almost nothing of what we proposed was found in the draft document. We could not accept such a document because it is more cosmetics than essence,“ said Aleksic.

They suggested, he added, that the dialogue continues.

Obradovic: This is not an agreement with the opposition

„This is not an agreement with the opposition, this is an agreement exclusively between the government and the MEPs,“ said Dveri leader Bosko Obradovic.

According to him, the paper they received Saturday at the end of the inter-party dialogue is better than the first one.
„It has an excellent diagnosis of all the problems that Serbia is facing in the election process, and that is the best proof that we have been right all these years when we said that the elections in Serbia are neither free nor fair. The MEPs confirmed that with this paper. However, they didn’t offer us any guarantees that essentially anything would change in the next six months. The opposition did not get a specific place in the control of the future process, and only in that way can we influence the improvement of the election conditions,“ Obradovic noted.

Some parties accept the proposal

The Leader of the Social Democratic Party, Boris Tadic, stated that his party will participate in the work of the assembly and supervisory bodies.

Tadic said that the platform that was adopted „does not mean that election conditions are ideal now,“ adding that the government can violate even the best platform.

The co-leader of the Party of Modern Serbia (SMS), Tatjana Macura, stated that she would not agree with the part of the opposition that did not agree to the proposed document.

„It seems to me that after two and a half years of negotiations with the authorities, concrete steps have been taken,“ said Macura, adding that she was sorry to hear that after two days of intensive talks, the participants gave up participating in the REC or supervisory bodies on which they persistently insisted all the time.

Among those who accepted the proposal of the MEPs are the representatives of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV), who said that they supported the proposal, although they were not completely satisfied with its text, but that it was „a matter of compromise.“

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