Vucic and Djilas meet. SSP leader: New elections in Belgrade are the only solution

The meeting between SSP leader Dragan Djilas and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic took place last night. Djilas said that new elections in Belgrade are the only solution and that he told this to Vucic as well. The goal of the conversation was to reduce tensions in society, while other topics, he said, were not discussed. Djilas also told reporters that Vucic told him that he would answer by the end of the week.

Djilas told reporters that Vucic told him that he would discuss repeating elections in Belgrade with party colleagues and that he would present his position by the end of the week.

"We did not achieve a great degree of agreement on what we spoke about," he added, but they agreed that Serbia is facing severe challenges and he reminded Vucic, while he did not run away from it, that the government must have legality in its election, but also legitimacy, so that a government that would be formed by the joining of some opposition councilors would not have legitimacy.

Djilas told reporters in front of the Serbian presidency that Vucic told him he had been informed by his associates that the SNS had more than 60 councilors necessary to form a city government in Belgrade.

"We have already seen after the vote how Zavetnici and the NADA coalition vote and how the people from POKS voted and said that it is not possible to join those who claim that their people are genocidal," said Djilas.

Djilas said he sees no solution for Belgrade other than new elections and would seek justice before the Administrative Court, adding that he would not give up.

"If all opposition parties and their councilors remain of the opinion that they will not form a government with Vesic and Sapic, then the positions remain 55-55," said Djilas.

Earlier, Djilas made a proposal to talk to Vucic during a guest appearance on television.

"My decision was to say that I am ready to talk. I want to live in a country where it is normal to talk to the president as the leader of the strongest opposition party, where that should never be strange again," said Djilas, adding that the situation in the city and in the country and in the world is complicated.

He said that this does not mean in any way that the party he leads, the SSP, is ready to cooperate with any of the parties that are now in power.

"We remain the opposition. We cannot be in a coalition with any party that is now in power. We will be the strongest opposition in the parliament," said Djilas.

Vucic responded to Djilas' request while he was on RTS and soon sent him an official invitation.

"We have to talk and we all have to change ourselves and show more respect for each other," said Vucic.

(Telegraf.rs)