“We’ll beat Vucic without any foreign support,” Dragan Djilas told Radar in an interview, adding that the Serbian President would already have fallen from power without support from the West.
The leader of the Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP) said that would be harder but added that “it will be to our great advantage because we won’t owe anything to anyone, we won’t promise anything to anyone”. “This will allow us to run this country in a truly different way,” he said.
“From what I see at the moment, the SNS-SPS government is currently polling at around 47%. The opposition – assuming everyone claiming to be in opposition is sincere – is at 43%. The rest looks to be split between minority parties, independents and those who failed to meet the threshold. That’s today’s reality. Compare that to the elections of 2016, when SNS, SPS and the Radicals won 67%,” he said.
According to Djilas , Vucic has turned Serbia into a modern colony serving foreign interests. “The Americans are satisfied: he has done what they wanted him to do in Kosovo, he exports weapons to Ukraine, he wants to mine lithium, Bechtel is given contracts… The French have been given Belgrade Airport through a rigged tender, as well as a garbage incinerator ten times more expensive than the one built when I was mayor. Now we’re buying Rafale fighter jets, we want to buy some kind of French mobile nuclear power plants… He satisfies the Germans with lithium. He lets the Russians extract enormous profits from NIS; he hasn’t imposed sanctions, allowing Putin to say that someone is on his side. He signed a free trade agreement with the Chinese that is disastrous for Serbia, allowing them to get contracts without tenders…”
“He fulfills everyone’s wishes and pays everyone – not out of the pocket of his Stefano Ricci jeans but out of the pockets of Serbian citizens and out of the Serbian budget. And so they all [the foreign actors] love him,” Djilas said.
“I understand that every player has interests. It’s in the EU’s interest not to be dependent on Chinese lithium, for instance. But we have to look at what is in Serbia’s interest. I think it’s in Serbia’s interest to protect our water and environment, not to shut down the Faculty of Mining and Geology – as some propose – while opening 50 new mines across Serbia. The SSP’s position is not one of the more extreme ones circulating publicly – we’re not saying ‘never, not in a thousand years’. How can we know what will happen in 50, 100 years? But what we know for sure is that at this moment lithium is not being mined anywhere in Europe,” he added.
“Only when Germany is ready to extract lithium with technology that does not pollute the environment, and when Serbia is no longer a country in which you can buy ministers, presidents or some guy at a checkpoint who lets your truck slip through for 500 euros, can we enter into any proper discussion about whether we should do it. At the moment those conditions are simply not in place,” the SSP leader said.
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