"If institutions go, street remains, and it leads to war"

The opposition party's leader, Nenad Canak, told this to Politika daily in an interview published on Wednesday.

"If you destroy even the few institutions left, you are in a position where only the street remains, and it leads to a civil war," he said. "That's why assemblies and elections have been created, in order to prevent the change of power by the street," Canak said.
As for LSV's failure to take in (weekly anti-authorities) protests, he said that "no protests have ever yielded results if held before elections, but only after elections, as defense of election results."
"This happened in 1996/97 and in 2000. All others did not bring any changes. Changes without elections are a revolution, which is legitimate... but there is no critical mass for it. Since there it isn't there, it's pure politicking, which will turn into another scam of the citizens of this country in the interests of the Russian Federation and with the wholehearted support of the radical part of the Serbian Orthodox Church," said Chanak.
He added that the LSV "supported the dissatisfaction of Vojvodina citizens with the level of decentralization requirements, better electoral conditions and free media."
"However, suddenly there appeared some kind of party security that was chasing away from the rallies the people carrying the flag of Vojvodina (province), the Dveri (Movement) minds that, who would like to turn it into completely right-wing pro-Russian rallies, where the main thing would be - 'you have betrayed Kosovo" - to, based on that, gradually chase away everyone from the civic option leaving only fascists in the streets. Representatives of the LGBT population were pushed out of the protest, there are no more rainbow flags," said Chanak.
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