[syndicate] Elections in Serbia

[Andrej Tisma]

You are forgetting elections of 2000 when democrats won elections in Serbia.
Then Serbia was OK, isn't it? It was people's will, wasn't it? But the West
lead a wrong policy, it was not helping the good Serbia, but was asking for
more all the time, giving back nothing. Serbia was collaborative, and
sometimes too much, with the West, but that was not evaluated. Just new
demands, one after the other. Even Djindjic was complaining before he was
killed, that this is too much for Serbia.
Now people of Serbia, after 3 years of try to collaborate with the West, and
after seeing there is no use, because Serbs are always the bad guys; even
with Djindjic Albanians were not satisfied, Karla Del Ponte too, America
too. And people were getting poorer and poorer, production in Serbia was
falling down instead of growing. Retired people were getting smaller
pensions year after year, people lost jobs. So people of Serbia, the same
ones who woted Djindjic 3 years ago, made their choice again. This is
democracy. Isn't it? Or democracy is being fooled all the time by the
international community? Enough is enough. That is what Djindjic said once.

> Serbia, actually, is therefore an anomaly. There in the recent
> elections not one but four (4) people were elected that cannot take
> their offices, because they are at the Hague, indicted in the war
> crimes proceedings. The victorious political parties were those who
> espose politics of hatred and violent expansionism. Their leaders -
> Seselj and Milosevic - are suspects in crimes of genocide and crimes
> against humanity. It is as if the political options in Serbia not
> only do not move closer to the center, but they are moving even
> farther apart from it - unlike in most of the rest of post-communist
> Europe.
>
> Following the murder of Serbia's prime minister Djindjic, Serbia
> seemingly lost its democratic face. With the new results, Serbia's
> president Kostunica, will have tougher time selling Serbia's image to
> the EU and to the world.