Opposition shouldn't accept elections, says ex president

However, the former president said that the opposition should not accept elections while President Aleksandar Vucic has full control over election processes and the media.

"The key goal of the protests must be to create conditions for fair elections. That is the most important issue at the moment that unites the entire opposition. It is a question of the survival of democracy and politics in Serbia, and in general the possibility of changing this criminal system," Tadic told the weekly NIN.

According to him, it is more realistic for the opposition to boycott the elections than for the authorities fulfill the conditions for fair elections.

"The authorities' refusal to establish normal electoral conditions leads to a non-parliamentary struggle. It was the same in the 1990s. A part of the international community is more interested in Vucic delivering the recognition of Kosovo's independence to them, than in the preservation of democracy in Serbia. That's a disgraceful role of some European politicians. But even so, the international community would not be able to turn a blind eye to a boycott of elections," said Tadic.

Speaking about the protests in Belgrade, he said that every protest makes sense if it is designed in accordance with previously clearly defined political demands and goals.

"We can not behave like earthworms that only reflexively respond to outside stimuli, and therefore it is not enough to, as pre-politics of society, only react to the attempt to kill Borko Stefanovic, instead these protests, along with the demands for the removal of Vucic's reign, must promote higher goals and concrete development policy and change, just as it is happening these days in France," Tadic said.

He said that he...