Dacic: No reason for elections

Speaking live on the pro-regime TV Pink, Dacic asked if the protesting students know what standing in elections means. According to him, the students’ demand for early parliamentary elections is hypocritical because they said earlier that their original demands are not within his competencies. The students demanded accountability for the Novi Sad Railway Station disaster which claimed 16 lives.

Dacic believes that only Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and his Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) could collect the required signatures and hand in an election ticket if the elections were called today.

The minister said things are gradually going back to normal after the public was under pressure with violence and blockades for months. “This was more a blockade of normal life than a political crisis… Serbia needs political stability as a condition for any progress,” he added.