[syndicate] Elections in Serbia

[Ivo Skoric]

What could be worse than people in reaction to a bad situation 
electing the worst leaders?
ivo

On 29 Dec 2003 at 21:22, Andrej Tisma wrote:

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.