Velika podvala
A Big Scam

Summary/Abstract: Most recent surveys agree in one thing at least - the citizens' interest in the upcoming parliamentary elections, just like in the recent presidential ballot, is still kept at high levels. The question is, however, how and in with what the parties, the most influential ones, at least, respond to the citizens' heightened readiness to participate in public affairs. The party offerings in the campaign again adhere blindly to formulas intended to lure the voters, instead of better understanding their aspirations and more contemporary needs of Serbian society. Kostunica, for instance, who initiated the new elections, builds everything on the thesis that Kosovo could be returned within Serbia's borders, only if the people and coalition partners in the current government would understand him better. And he'll deal with Europe and the UN, he says, easily, once he manages to renew the talks on the subject. This is not only a fatal misconception, but an open attempt to cheat or corrupt voters with fake promises. And the inevitable thing that happens when people insist on exclusivity was engendered: bloody riots erupted in Kosovska Mitrovica, for which the prime minister and his Democratic Party of Serbia were mostly responsible. There has hardly been any other event that managed to distance us so far away from Europe and to destabilize Serbia like this one did...

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