BELGRADE – Boris Tadić confirmed yesterday evening that his Social Democratic Party (SDS) will ultimately not run with the “Serbia Against Violence” coalition, which gather the parliamentary pro-EU opposition. Tadić accused Miroslav Aleksić, with whom he was negotiating participation, of deceiving him and holding negotiations only to convince members of SDS to join his party.
Previously, it was reported that Tadić was negotiating with Aleksić, leader of the recently established People’s Movement of Serbia (NPS) that SDS should join the coalition and receive several places on the electoral lists allocated to NPS during the coalition negotiations.
However, on Thursday night, Tadić wrote on his X (formerly Twitter) profile that Aleksić informed him that “there is no place for SDS on the list”.
According to Tadić, his party accepted the minimal number of winnable seats in the negotiations with Aleksić and NPS several weeks ago. The leader of SDS wrote that, as it turned out, “the negotiations were about bribing our members with the seats in the parliament to join his party”.
It was reported earlier that two prominent members of SDS, Aleksandar Ivanović and Goran Radosavljević left the party to join Aleksić NPS and that they would be candidates for MPs.
Aleksić has not reacted to Tadić’s accusations so far.
In the 2022 parliamentary election, coalition around Tadić, the former President of Serbia, won 1.72% of the vote and failed to cross the 3% threshold.
In the city of Belgrade, which is also scheduled to hold early elections in December, Tadić’s list won 2.92% and was just a couple of hundreds of votes shot to clear the threshold and deny the majority to the ruling SNS-SPS coalition.
Boris Tadić at the 2022 election press conference
Photo: Medija centar
