Democratic Party of Serbia

BIRN Fact-Check: Did Serbia’s Elections Signal a Further Tilt to the Right?

Serbian police officers guard the street during a protest against the 'Mirdita-Dobar Dan' festival, which was organized by liberal groups from Serbia and Kosovo, in Belgrade, Serbia, 22 October 2020. EPA-EFE/MARKO DJOKOVIC

Lower threshold cleared path for right-wing to enter parliament

Meeting in the Assembly started - inter-party dialogue; Vučić also arrived PHOTO

Vui was welcomed by the Speaker of the Parliament Ivica Dai.
Earlier, some representatives of the opposition came to the parliament, and among the first were the president of the DSS, Milos Jovanovic, and the deputy president of the SRS, Aleksandar Seselj, as well as the head of the SNS parliamentary group, Aleksandar Martinovic.

"Dirty laundry should be kept away from the foreign statesmen"

Moreover, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic showed no dignity either, in front of the foreign statesman.
"Basic good manners dictates that dirty laundry, if there is any, should be kept inside the house. We have to stop with this provincial and humiliating habit of complaining to foreigners on each other", Jovanovic told daily Blic.

Montenegro Court Sentences 13 In ‘Coup’ Case

The Higher Court in Montenegro on Thursday sentenced 13 people, including two Russian military intelligence officers and two opposition leaders, to up to 15 years in prison for staging an attempted coup in 2016.

They were found guilty of plotting to commit "terrorist acts" and undermine the constitutional order of Montenegro during the parliamentary elections in October 2016.

Russia's support for Vucic has strings attached - journalist

This is according to Gennady Sisoyev, a correspondent for Russian daily Kommersant, who spoke for Beta agency.

Sisoyev said that one of Lavrov's key messages was that Serbia is not threatened by "Ukrainization" - that is, destabilization and civil unrest as a result of being forced to choose between Russia and the EU - "as long as current political forces are in power."

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