Aleksić: Opposition Is Essential to Defeat Vučić and Form Serbia’s Next Government

Miroslav Aleksić, leader of Serbia’s People’s Movement, said the opposition cannot defeat Aleksandar Vučić’s regime or form a government after political change without cooperation among opposition parties.

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Elections in orderly countries are a celebration of democracy, but in Serbia they resemble a civil war.

Aleksić said surveys show that some opposition-oriented Serbian voters still want to support political parties. His party has formed the “People’s Serbia” alliance with New Face of Serbia and the Ecological Uprising.

“Elections in orderly countries are a celebration of democracy, but in Serbia they resemble a civil war,” Aleksić told the newspaper Nova. He said no autocrat willingly hands over power through democratic means, arguing that the opposition must win it even under unequal conditions.

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These people in power rely precisely on fear, pressure and the feeling that every resistance is futile and that nothing can change. It can.

Aleksić urged citizens not to be afraid, saying those in power rely on fear, pressure and the belief that resistance is useless. He said the response to alleged electoral theft should be “even higher turnout, even better organization and a readiness to defend every vote.”

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The response to electoral theft is even higher turnout, even better organization and a readiness to defend every vote.

Asked why his party had not formed a coalition with the Party of Freedom and Justice, Aleksić said the NPS had made clear efforts to bring together all opposition actors, including political parties, civil society and the student movement. He said the decision by others to abandon talks and agreements and go their own way was not a question for his party.

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The NPS made very clear efforts to bring together all opposition actors, including political parties, civil society and the student movement.