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The idea of a boycott has disintegrated, and the question is whether the Alliance for Serbia still exists, said the president of the Social Democratic Party (SDS) and the former president of Serbia, Boris Tadic, and evaluated that “a new reality has emerged, caused by the state of emergency and the pandemic, and then by the decision of the Free Citizens Movement to go to the polls. “
He said he could not support Boško Obradović’s action in front of parliament, explaining that the Dveri leader was addressing his electorate as quite extreme.
For the SDS president, such an action “is not understandable,” but he also believes that Obradović and Dveri are reacting to “the general circus and extremism that Vučić and the Serbian Progressive Party have been building in Serbia for eight years.”
According to Tadic’s warning, reacting to extremism with extremism leads to very risky circumstances, “which can lead to a major final conflict within the citizenry in Serbia.”
As he explained, in societies like ours, in which “Vučić builds a primitive cult of personality, injects lies into public life every day, spreads aggression to all sides with the desire to become a historical figure, not you can predict in advance how it will happen. ” explosions. “
In particular, it is not possible to know in advance who will take charge of that uncontrolled energy of the population and the energy of rebellion that may appear, Tadic said.
Therefore, I would like “an alternative to an autocratic regime to be democracy and a stable, rational and sustainable system, and not another type of autocratic regime.”
At the same time, Tadic is convinced that “the idea of a boycott has disintegrated” and that the question is whether the SzS still exists.
It is time, as he said, that “everyone wake up and realize the new reality created by the Covid 19 pandemic and the PSG decision to go to the polls.”
Stressing that the opposition that was against Vučić should find a “new answer”, Tadić proposed “a solution that could eventually reconcile us all and keep us together on the electoral list, despite different ideological orientations.”
He is considering the proposal to form a “Boycott List”, which would mean the continuation of the “boycott of the institutions after the elections, because the Vučić dictatorship deserves that kind of response.”
Tadic says he proposed it to “fellow opposition soldiers, but that, with the exception of Professor Slobodan Samardzic, who reacted more rationally to the proposal, most are not even ready to think about it.”
However, he cannot say what will happen in the coming days, although “time is short.”
Aware of the health conditions that are not favorable for the elections, Tadic emphasized that citizens should be told that the opposition, unlike Vucic, does not want to endanger their health, but will run the campaign, mainly through social networks and video links.
Referring to the idea of the “Boycott List”, he specified that his intention was to offer a commitment to preserve the unity of the opposition, to maintain the idea of a boycott, but also to mobilize the part of citizens who do not understand the concept of boycott.
According to Tadic’s interpretation, “the boycott of parliament is an active situation, while the boycott of the elections, since everything has ended, means that he has nothing else to boycott, because he is not in the Assembly.”
He believes that “then, the only thing left is the street that the masses of citizens need, and not a few hundred or a thousand, as many as they went out to protest the first day after the lifting of the state of emergency.”
This shows that “people want to overcome the problem institutionally and not extra-institutionally,” Tadic explained, but also noted that “Vucic will never leave power peacefully.”
“The nature of its system is a thief and it will defend property that has been looted by citizens and the state,” said Tadic, who believes that “accumulation of minor victories” is needed for the system to win.
“Zivkovic, Micunovic and I, who remained from the moment of the battle against Milosevic, we know this because he was not overthrown on October 5,” estimated the SDS president.
As he explained, that victory accumulated from March 9, 1991, through the formation of DEPOS, the elections in 1996 and 1997, up to various “confrontations”, and only then did the victory continue in 2000.
“The presidential elections are the point at which the geometry of the political image in Serbia is changing”
“The victory over Vučić implies a political process,” said Tadić, noting that “Vučić does not win the parliamentary elections, but the presidential elections that follow.”
In his opinion, the presidential election is the point at which the geometry of the political image in Serbia is changing.
“It was like this with Milosevic and Kostunica, and with me and Nikolic, that is, Vucic,” Tadic recalled.
He denied the articles he recently met with the US president’s adviser on national security, with whom he allegedly spoke about hosting the DS meeting and the presidential candidate.
As a former president, he says he participates in many international forums, but never agreed with anyone to be the seat of the opposition.
“I just want to help find a candidate who can do that, help the integration of the opposition and fight against the autocracy of Vučić, as I fought against that of Tito and Milošević,” said Tadić.
He claims that “the reunification of” DS “is endless, that it has dragged on for a hungry year” and believes that Dušan Petrović and Zoran Lutovac “stopped that process.”
As he says, they were not honest, because they did not implement the agreement and did not even inform him about “the intention of Paunović and Zelenović to go to the polls.”
Without DS, there is no victory over Vučić, Tadić emphasized and, as naive, marked those who think “some moves” will.
According to Tadic, “no new party that has a serious institutional organization, like the DS, has been built on the opposition scene to date.”
It was built over the years, Tadic recalled, emphasizing that, along with his colleagues, from 1990 to 1999, he only dealt with the organization of the party, as secretary of the Main Board.
“It is hard work, but without it there is no victory,” said the SDS president, “especially if you have a corrupt organization of 750,000 members against you.”
“Meanwhile, paid thugs, scoundrels and people who have acquired capital, which is the SNS system,” Tadic concluded.
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