[syndicate] Elections in Serbia

Andrej Tisma aart at eunet.yu
Tue Dec 30 18:47:03 CET 2003


Worst for whom? For the people, it is obvious, they are the best.
Andrej

From: "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.
> 
> 
> 






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