The deputy president of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), Aleksandar Seselj, said today, after consultations with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, that the party is advocating for extraordinary parliamentary elections to be held this year, without specifying the date.
“We are insisting on those elections for our own reasons and interests, but we also believe that it would be good if all political differences and confrontations were resolved in the parliamentary elections,” Seselj told reporters.
He added that state authorities should take matters into their own hands when it comes to security and other segments of society, for which in the last year and a half it has been seen that there are obstructions that are generated and financed from abroad.
Stating that these are the judiciary and education, Šešelj pointed out that it was seen that certain people in leadership positions in those areas – “from the rector of Belgrade University Vladan Đokić, to other people” – are loyal to some power centers from abroad.
He believes that this is unacceptable for Serbia, adding that he is convinced that the majority of Serbian citizens think so.
Speaking about Serbia’s European path, Šešelj reminded that SRS was the first political group that declared against Serbia’s membership in the European Union for a number of reasons, humiliation, as well as the process of “obvious disintegration” of Serbian integrity in that process.
He assessed the consultations of Vučić with the parties as something that moves the political scene of Serbia in a positive direction, especially since the president has no constitutional and legal obligation to implement it, and to insist on it.
Vucic previously consultations had representatives of the Serbian Renewal Movement, the Socialist Movement, the Union of Vojvodina Hungarians, the Party of Justice and Reconciliation, the Party of United Pensioners, Farmers and Proletarians of Serbia – Solidarity and Justice and We – Voice of the People.
He also spoke with representatives of the Social Democratic Patria of Serbia, the Socialist Party of Serbia, the Democratic Union of Croats in Vojvodina, the Serbian Progressive Party, the United Trade Unions of Serbia Sloga, United Serbia, Greens of Serbia, the Russian Party, the People’s Party, the Alternative for Change, the United Peasants’ Party and the Movement of Serbian Forces – BK.
Most of the opposition parliamentary parties refused to participate in the consultation.
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