[syndicate] Elections in Serbia

[Ivo Skoric]

People may be mistaken. In Serbia, as in the U.S. As they were in 
Germany, once.
ivo

On 30 Dec 2003 at 18:47, Andrej Tisma wrote:

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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