Minister: Don't give too much importance to opposition talk of election boycott

Defense Minister Alexander Vulin said today that the announced boycott of parliamentary elections by a part of the opposition should not be given much importance, as everyone decides about their own political moves, but the final judgment is given by the citizens in elections.

He told TV Pink that the idea of ​​a boycott was not new, that the Democratic Party boycotted elections in the 1990s, and that afterwards their president, Zoran Djindjic, said that they would not even think about such a thing again.

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"Everyone has the right to decide about their own political moves. As far as I'm concerned they can boycott, I don't see any problem with that. I would not give it too much importance. If you don't want to test yourself before the voters, go test yourself within your political organizations, it's your right," said Vulin, who is also the leader of the Movement of Socialists.

According to him, the citizens of Serbia say in elections what they think about every politician and that judgment cannot be avoided.

"We are ready, we have something to go to the elections with. Those who do not have their own choice, it may be better for them not to go to the polls and preserve their self-respect," he said.

Vulin said that public life in Serbia has become contaminated with hatred, and that insults made at the expense of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's family have become a part of allowed vocabulary.

Vulin said that Vucic believes that this should be endured, and added that he does not agree and that the state has a duty to protect the president and his family.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)