28 April 2008 A tram to 21st century...
Elections are coming up again and I remembered I have a blog, so let me cut to the chase. Thinking about elections gives me headache, so this blog entry will be dull and deprived of humor. Don’t read it unless you really have to.
Parliamentary elections
There will be five major players in the parliamentary elections: Serbian Radical Party, Socialist Party of Serbia, Democratic Party of Serbia, Democratic Party and friends and Liberal Democratic Party.
Serbian Radical Party and Socialist Party of Serbia
The first two, Radicals and Socialists (it is highly ironic to call them socialists… Socialist Party of Serbia’s social program in the 1990s was to invent a super-duper secret Tesla all-powerful Serbian something and sell it for copious amounts of money and feed the hungry and poor) should not exist.
Both of those parties held power in 1990s and proved that they have no democratic capacity. Milošević came to power by violating the constitution of the country and taking away autonomy of two Serbian provinces at the time. During their rule, they abused all of the country’s institutions, fixed election results, got us into war more than once, and murdered and tortured people. When Serbian Radical Party briefly took some of the power in 1998, they deepened these violations by further repressions on the media and universities.
These two parties have NO democratic legitimacy and SHOULD NOT take part in the democratic process.
Our beloved Prime Minister
The incumbent PM’s party, which has about 10% of popular support, touched the bottom of a metaphorical septic hole. Their populism and recent public opposition to European Union enlargement makes me want to commit suicide by drinking Danube water or living in the industrial part of the city of Pančevo.
“European” forces
President’s Democratic Party is bearable, but the President — Bo Ta (Boris Tadić) isn’t. He is giving his best to target rightists and nationalists by bullshitting about Kosovo being best defended from the EU, so their primary slogan is: We need to join the EU so we can defend Kosovo.
Defend Kosovo from whom? By that time, probably fellow European Union citizens.
By keeping this rightist stand, which includes removing ambassadors from countries that recognized Kosovo and destroying international relations, they are losing their target audience.
Liberal Democratic Party on the other hand is the only one accepting reality about Kosovo. Their heart is at place, but they still have the same problem: compromised and in many ways incompetent party membership.
City elections
I’ll try to write about them when I get some inspiration back.
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