Serbian Radical Party
| Serbian Radical Party | |
| Serb. Serbian radical country | |
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| Number of members: |
about 80.000 |
| Motto: |
Serbia is eternal as long as its own children are faithful to it (Serb. Serbia is eternal) |
| Seats in the National Assembly: | |
| Party Seal: |
"Greater Serbia" |
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Serbian Radical Party(Serb. Serbian radical country, SRS listen)) is a nationalist party in Serbia. The party was founded in Belgrade by Vojislav Seselj as a result of the merger of two nationalist organizations - the People's Radical Party and the National Chetnik Movement. He opposes the rapprochement between Serbia and the EU, for the territorial integrity of Serbia and for the close cooperation of Belgrade with Moscow and Beijing. In the 2008 parliamentary elections, she received 29.46% of the vote and 78 seats in parliament. After the split in the ranks of the party, it had 58 seats left. The Radicals have their representation in Montenegro - the Serbian Radical Party of Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina - the Serbian Radical Party of the Republika Srpska, as well as in Croatia and Macedonia. Detachments of Serbian radicals under the leadership of their leader Vojislav Seselj took part in the hostilities in Bosnia and Croatia in the early 90s.
Program
The Serbian Radical Party claims the creation of a Greater Serbia as its most important political goal. According to Seselj, the idea of a Greater Serbia is the essence of the party.
In addition, the Serbian Radical Party opposes the entry of Serbia into European Union and NATO, and seeks integration with Russia and the CIS countries; also advocates cooperation with China and the Non-Aligned Movement. The organization also advocates the restoration of Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo and Metohija.
The program of the Serbian Radical Party includes the fight against corruption, the reduction of unemployment and poverty.
Split
On July 4, 2012, several former deputies of the Serbian Radical Party: Aleksandar Martinovic, Dragan Stevanovic, Marina Ragush and Vladan Jeremic moved to the Serbian Progressive Party. The former SRS functionary explained that the reason for his move to the pre-election camp was that the Serbian Radical Party had no prospects because of the way it was run and because of the personnel decisions made after the elections. When asked why he chose the Serbian Progressive Party, the party that he and his colleagues had harshly criticized in the republican parliament, Martinovic replied that that was the party's policy at the time.
Election stats
| Year | votes | in percents | Mandates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 066 765 | 22,58% | 73 |
| 1993 | 595 467 | 15,9% | 39 |
| 1997 | 1 162 216 | 28,08% | 82 |
| 2000 | 322 333 | 8,6% | 23 |
| 2003 | 1 069 212 | 27,61% | 82 |
| 2007 | 1 153 453 | 28,59% | 81 |
| 1 219 436 | 29,46% | 78 | |
| 2012 | 180 558 | 4,63% | 0 |
Notable members
- Vojislav Seselj - one of the founders and current president of the party.
- Nemanja Sarovich - deputy chairman of the party.
- Zoran Krasic - party vice president.
- Vjerica Rade -
- Ana Simonovich - general secretary of the party.
- Jadranka Seselj - wife of Vojislav Seselj. was the party's candidate for presidential elections in Serbia in 2012.
- Dragan Todorovich - former vice president of the party.
- Bozidar Delic - retired Serbian army general and former vice-president of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.
- Lydia Vukicevic - former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.
- Nikola Shesel - editor of the site and the Serbian Radical Party and the site about Vojislav Seselj.
- Milorad Buha - Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbian Krajina in exile, former member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.
Notes
| Political parties in Serbia | |
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| Parliamentary parties - coalition (129): | Democratic Party (64) G17+ (21) Socialist Party of Serbia (11) League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (5) United Pensioners' Party of Serbia (5) Serbian Renewal Movement (4) Sandjak Democratic Party (4) Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (4) United Serbia (3) Together for Serbia (2) Bosnian Democratic Party of Sandzak (1) Movement of Veterans of Serbia (1) Social Liberal Party of Sandzak (1) Democratic League of Croats in Vojvodina (1) Democratic Action Party (1) Coalition of Presevo Valley Albanians (1) ) |
| Parliamentary parties - opposition (121): | Serbian Radical Party (57) |
(Serb. Serbian radical country, SRS listen)) is a nationalist party in Serbia. The party was founded in 1991 by Vojislav Seselj in Belgrade as a result of the merger of two nationalist organizations - the People's Radical Party and the National Chetnik Movement. He opposes the rapprochement between Serbia and the EU, for the territorial integrity of Serbia and for close cooperation between Belgrade and Moscow and Beijing. In the 2008 parliamentary elections, she received 29.46% of the vote and 78 seats in parliament. After the split in the ranks of the party, it had 58 seats left.
The radicals have their representation in Montenegro - the party of Serbian radicals of Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Serbian Radical Party of Republika Srpska, as well as in Croatia and Macedonia. Detachments of Serbian radicals under the leadership of their leader Vojislav Seselj took part in the hostilities in Bosnia and Croatia in the early 90s.
Split
In September 2008, the actual leader left the party and formed his own faction in the Assembly with 20 deputies, who also left the ranks of the radicals and joined Nikolic. The disagreements, according to many, arose because of the conflict between the leader of the party, Vojislav Seselj, and Nikolic, who wanted to make the party more moderate on the national issue and shift the focus of its policy from protecting the territorial integrity of Serbia to the socio-economic problems of the country, thus practically agreeing with the rapprochement Serbia and the EU, which Seselj has always opposed.
Tomislav Nikolic formed his own party - and, as opinion polls showed, its rating soared to 21% in the first week of its existence, and the rating of the radicals fell to 7%.
Election stats
| Year | votes | Mandates |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 066 765 (22,58%) | 73 |
| 1993 | 595 467 (15,9%) | 39 |
| 1997 | 1 162 216 (28,08%) | 82 |
| 2000 | 322 333 (8,6%) | 23 |
| 2003 | 1 069 212 (27,61%) | 82 |
| 2007 | 1 153 453 (28,59%) | 81 |
| 2008 | 1 219 436 (29,46%) | 78 |
| Year | Candidate | % |
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| 1997 | winner 49.10 | |
| 1997 (reruns) | Vojislav Seselj | 2nd place 37.47 |
| 2000 | Tomislav Nikolic | 3rd place 5.79 |
| 2002 | Vojislav Seselj | 3rd place 23.24 |
| 2002 (repeated) | Vojislav Seselj | 2nd place 36.08 |
| 2004 | Tomislav Nikolic | winner in the 1st round 30.60% 2nd place in the II round 45.40% |
| 2008 | Tomislav Nikolic | winner in the 1st round 39.99% 2nd place in the II round 47.97% |
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about 80.000
Serbia is eternal as long as its own children are faithful to it (Serb. Serbia is eternal)
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"Sing Bravo"
On July 4, 2012, several former deputies of the Serbian Radical Party: Aleksandar Martinovic, Dragan Stevanovic, Marina Ragush and Vladan Jeremic moved to the Serbian Progressive Party. The former SRS functionary explained that the reason for his move to the pre-election camp was that the Serbian Radical Party had no prospects because of the way it was run and because of the personnel decisions made after the elections. When asked why he chose the Serbian Progressive Party, the party that he and his colleagues had harshly criticized in the republican parliament, Martinovic replied that that was the party's policy at the time.
Election stats
| Year | votes | in percents | Mandates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 066 765 | 22,58 % | 73 | |
| 595 467 | 15,9 % | 39 | |
| 1 162 216 | 28,08 % | 82 | |
| 322 333 | 8,6 % | 23 | |
| 1 069 212 | 27,61 % | 82 | |
| 1 153 453 | 28,59 % | 81 | |
| 1 219 436 | 29,46 % | 78 | |
| 180 558 | 4,63 % | 0 | |
| 306 052 | 8,10 % | 22 |
| Year | Candidate | % |
|---|---|---|
| Vojislav Seselj | winner 49.10 | |
| (repeated) | Vojislav Seselj | 2nd place 37.47 |
| Tomislav Nikolic | 3rd place 5.79 | |
| Vojislav Seselj | 3rd place 23.24 | |
| (repeated) | Vojislav Seselj | 2nd place 36.08 |
| Tomislav Nikolic | winner in the 1st round 30.60% 2nd place in the II round 45.40% |
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| Tomislav Nikolic | winner in the 1st round 39.99% 2nd place in the II round 47.97% |
Notable members
- Vojislav Seselj - one of the founders and current president of the party.
- Nemanja Sarovich - deputy chairman of the party.
- Zoran Krasic - party vice president.
- Verica Rade -
- Ana Simonovich - general secretary of the party.
- Jadranka Seselj - wife of Vojislav Seselj. She was the party's candidate in the 2012 Serbian presidential election.
- Dragan Todorovich - former vice president of the party.
- Bozidar Delic - retired Serbian army general and former vice-president of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.
- Lydia Vukicevic - former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.
- Nikola Shesel - editor of the site and the Serbian Radical Party and the site about Vojislav Seselj.
- Milorad Buha - Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbian Krajina in exile, former member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.
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1. Aleksandar Vucic - Serbia wins(coalition of the Serbian Progressive Party, the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia and apolitical citizens)
Full name: Serbian Progressive Party
Abbreviation: SPP (SNA)
Founder: Tomislav Nikolic
Date of foundation: October 10, 2008
Colors: blue, red
Geopolitical position: EU, Euro-Atlanticism
Official website: http://www.sns.org.rs
Leader: Aleksandar Vučić (political protégé of Vojislav Seselj, started his career in the Serbian Radical Party and was its prominent member until he betrayed Seselj and left the party in 2008. Until 2008 he followed national program, since 2008 - the program of the European Union. It was "formatted" by the British and used by the Americans through connections in Germany).
Party Agenda: is a mixture of principles borrowed from EU standards, the foundations of some political parties such as the Democratic Party, as well as moderate nationalist approaches, with the aim of attracting people from other parties, as well as those who advocate the EU and implementation national interests.
Expectations from the elections: victory / formation of the government / position of the prime minister.
2. For a just Serbia- Democratic Party (a coalition of the Democratic Party, the New Party, the Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina, Together for Serbia. All these parties were part of the Democratic Party, then split into several separate parties and now formed a coalition).
Full name: Democratic Party
Abbreviation: AP (DS)
Founder: Dragoljub Micunovic
Date: 02/03/1990 (continues the tradition of the Democratic Party, founded in 1919)
Colors: blue, yellow
Geopolitical position: pro-EU, Euro-Atlanticism
Official site: http://www.ds.org.rs
Leader: Bojan Paitic
Party program: declares that it continues the program of the Democratic Party, founded at the beginning of the 20th century, which was focused on the modernization of Serbia without losing national identity.
Democratic Party after its resurgence in the 1990s played the role of opposition to the party of Milosevic (Socialist Party of Serbia). Members of the Democratic Party have held seats in parliament since the emergence of a multi-party political system in the country. After the 1996 elections, the party seized local power. On October 5, 2000, the party formed a government led by Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. In 2003, he was killed at the entrance to the government building before a meeting with the Swedish Foreign Minister (who was later killed). Such dishonorable acts could only have been committed by British intelligence. After the assassination of Djinidzic, the party began to lose ground. It has created many liberals who are ready to plunder the public and private financial wealth of the country. The state machinery was used to hand over the country to Western magnates, shady holdings and companies that bought and privatized the country's public and private wealth. Thanks to this dirty game, the party lost its leadership in parliament in 2012 and is now fighting for a place in the sun. Since its inception in the 1990s. The Democratic Party has split seven or eight times. Now these parts continue to exist separately and take part in the elections.
Expectations from the elections: to overcome the threshold to get into parliament, to get seats in local government.
3. Ivica Dacic - Socialist Party of Serbia - United Serbia - Dragan Markovic Palma
Full name: Socialist Party of Serbia
Abbreviation: SPS (SPS)
Founder: Slobodan Milosevic
Date of foundation: 06/16/1990
Colors: red
Geopolitical position: none.
Official site: www.sps.org.rs
Leader: Ivica Dacic (protege of Slobodan Milosevic, has played a key role in the functioning of the party since the founding)
Party program: The party was formed with the merger of the Union of Communists of Serbia and the Socialist Union of the Working People of Serbia and in the 1990s. followed a left-wing policy with elements of nationalism, but since 2000 changed its political course to a mixture of a left-wing program with common EU values.
Expectations from the elections: to receive an invitation to the government coalition at the republican level.
4. Dr. Vojislav Seselj - Serbian Radical Party
Full name: Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka)
Abbreviation: SRP (SRS)
Founder: Vojislav Seselj
Date of foundation: 01/20/1991
Colors: blue
Geopolitical position: Serbian nationalism
Leader: Vojislav Seselj
Party program: Party members declare the continuation of the program of the Serbian Radical Party, which functioned in XIX-XX centuries. An exclusively nationalist party that promotes the concept of a "Great Serbia", which means that most of Croatia, Bosnia are Serbian lands that need to be united into a single monarchy.
Expectation from the elections: Get seats in parliament, after a long opposition struggle.
5. Democratic Party of Serbia and Doors (coalition)
Full name: Democratic Party of Serbia
Abbreviation: DPS (DSS)
Founder: Vojislav Kostunica
Date of foundation: 05.12.1992
Colors: blue
Geopolitical position: Moderate nationalism
Official site: http://dss.rs/
Leader: Sanda Raskovic-Ivic
The party's program largely coincides with the program of the Democratic Party, as it was founded by a group of people who ceased membership in the Democratic Party. Follows the idea of nationalism (inconsistently) and balances between national and European values.
Expectations from the elections: get seats in parliament.
6. Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, Istvan Pastor
Full name: Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (Savez vojvodjanskih Madjara)
Abbreviation: SVM (SVM)
Founder: Jozsef Kasha
Date of foundation: 06/17/1995
Colors: green, red
Geopolitical position: Serbia's accession to the EU, open borders with Hungary, double citizenship, freedom of movement within EU borders.
Official site: http://www.vmsz.org.rs
Leader: Istvan Pastor
Party program: First formed as a civil movement in 1994, and a year later became a full-fledged party. Created to protect the rights of the Hungarian minority in Serbia - has been playing for a long time important role in political life country, since the leader and founder of the party was Vice President. The party directs its activities to protect the rights of the Hungarian minority, creating multiple ties in the northern autonomous region of Vojvodina.
Expectations from the elections: get seats in parliament, form a local government
7. Boris Tadic, Cedomir Jovanovic - Alliance for a Better Serbia(coalition of the Social Democratic Party, Liberal Democratic Party, League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina)
All parties in the coalition are supporters of one idea - Western liberalism.
Tadic and Jovanovic worked together for the Democratic Party, while Nenad Canak is the leader of the Novi Sad-based League. He believes that Vojvodina can become a republic, but within Serbia. As for the other two leaders, they are considered political "idiots" capable of acting recklessly in public.
8. Muamer Zukorlić - Bosniak Democratic Union Sandjak
Considered a representative of political Islam. Especially active in the last few years.
9. Sandjak Democratic Action Party - Suleiman Ugljanin
Full name: Sandzak Democratic Action Party
Abbreviation: SDA
Founder: Suleiman Uglyanin
Date of foundation: 26.09.1990
Colors: blue, red, green
Geopolitical position: a mixture of political goals to strengthen the relationship between Serbia and Bosnia. Serbia is the motherland, but the roots are in Bosnia.
Official site: http://sda.rs/
Leader: Suleiman Uglyanin (head of the party since the 1990s)
Party Program: Bosnian Minority Party of Serbia, headquartered in the southwestern region of Sandjak.
Expectations from the elections: to get seats in the parliament and the local/regional government of the Sandzak.
10. For a free Serbia - Zavetnitsy
A new movement made up of representatives of the Serbian right, mostly young people. The ideology has much in common with the ideas of Borislav Pelevich and his Patriotic Front. Borislav Pelevich is godfather Zeljko Razhnatovich Arkan. Together they became known thanks to the protest against NATO, which took place a month ago, when the President and the Prime Minister of Serbia signed a document on expanding cooperation with NATO.
11. Civil group for the Serbian revival - Dr. Slobodan Komazets
12. Russian Party - Slobodan Nikolic
This party was denied registration as a party of national minority. She insists on close cooperation with the Russian Federation.
13. Republican Party - Nikola Sandulovich
Party members claim to follow the tradition of the Yugoslav/Serbian Republican Party. It exists since 2014, but did not take part in the last elections due to the illegally conducted electoral process in Kosovo.
The party leader was the bodyguard of the deceased Prime Minister Djindjic, as a mercenary took part in the conflict in the Middle East, after which he became politically active in London. Currently taking part in elections. Openly opposes the policies of Aleksandar Vučić.
15. Serbian-Russian movement - Slobodan Dimitrievich
The party was denied registration as a minority party, but was allowed to take part in the elections. A newly formed party insisting on close cooperation with the Russian Federation.
16. Borko Stefanovich - Serbia for all of us(Srbija za sve nas)
Former member of the Democratic Party, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (during the period when the Democratic Party was in power). After he left the party, he decided to continue his political career on his own.
17. Dialogue - young people with a position, Stanko Debelyakovich
A group of young people who didn't have time to find out who is behind them and what they forgot here... The only thing they discuss publicly is to revise the Bologna system of education.
18. "That's it" - Sasha Radulovic
Former Minister of Economy under the previous Vučić government, economist, bankrupt trustee, etc. He did not fully support the policies of the previous Vucic government, for which he lost his post. Some, however, claim that they (Vučić and Radulović) made a secret agreement.
19. Party for Democratic Activities - Ardita Sinani
Local Albanian party of the southwestern region of Serbia, located near the administrative border with Kosovo.
20. Greens
The party exists since 2014, directs its activities to problems environment and the Slovak national minority. The headquarters is located in Novi Sad, in Vojvodina. (During the election campaign, there were rumors that the Greens had formed a coalition with the Socialist Party of Serbia, but a few days later it became known that the party would take part in the elections on its own).
21. Uinat - Složno za Srbiju - Narodni savez
A very recently created group of citizens (from Novi Sad) participating in both republican and local elections. They have a number of connections with representatives of the Third Serbia movement.
Local Front Kraljevo- one of the few well-organized local initiatives (bringing together people with different political principles, but living in the same city).
local front(Vladan Slavkovich)
Democratic Party of Serbia and (rade Erak)
Union of Local Residents of Kraljevo(Ivan Matovich)
All these parties held a joint press conference in Kraljevo. Local television was accused of having only one party (Serbian Progressive Party) represented on the ballot and of giving other candidates less airtime. They called the owners of TV channels “tycoons” with shadow capital who act to keep Vucic in power.
This is a very strange coalition, but apparently jointly opposed to Vučić's policies in all areas (from local municipal services to private media).
The current political situation in Serbia is far from calm. And from the moment Tomislav Nikolic resigned from the post of head of the Serbian Radical Party, intrigue and betrayal swept the country even more.
But first things first.
Not even a month had passed since Tomislav Nikolic registered a new party on the Serbian political horizon - the "Serbian Progressive Party" (SPP - Srpska Napredna Stranka), as the national press informed the public about the first fruits of its activities.
Thus, the Deputy Chairman of the SPP, Aleksandar Vučić, made a statement that their party was categorically against the national idea of "Great Serbia", the borders of which should extend along the line Karlobag - Ogulin - Virovitica. Thus, the former functionary of the Serbian Radical Party voiced the official position of his party as diametrically opposed to the ideas of the SWP and its leader Vojislav Seselj.
“This is not our policy. Our policy is to always be on the side of the Serbian people,” Aleksandar Vučić said at a press conference. According to him, the line Karlobag - Ogulin - Virovititsa "is not serious and unrealistic," SRPSKA reports.
“We believe that it is necessary to protect our people west of the Drina and the Danube. We need to build a close alliance and a good relationship with the Republika Srpska. And also to help our compatriots who were driven from their lands in Krajina and Croatia. But we believe that it is meaningless to say that Karlovac belongs to Serbia. Or in the near future it will belong to Serbia,” Vučić said.
Also, the Deputy Chairman of the newly minted party expressed concern and stated that in this moment the unification of Serbia and the Republika Srpska is unrealistic.
“The most important thing for us is to help our people return to their homes, save their homes and lands.”
And all the stories about the unification of Serbia and the Republika Srpska, according to him, are simply unrealistic "because of real ratio forces in the world."
So after real assessment"the real balance of power in the world" former leading functionaries of the Serbian Radical Party drew a line under the ideas and renounced the ideals and principles that long years stubbornly pursued and defended.
On the one hand, such a turn of events in the Serbian political arena speaks of Tomislav Nikolic's effective and skillful use of the current political situation in the country and characterizes him as a skillful political manager.
On the other hand, the above-mentioned official statement by the leading functionaries of the SPP deals another crushing blow to the radical party and personally to Vojislav Seselj.
Nikolic's desire to destroy the SWP is obvious. First, it will allow to get rid of competition in the political arena and lure vacillating radicals into their own camp. And the second is to destroy Vojislav Seselj, leaving him to rot forever in The Hague.
And in order for Seselj to stay forever in The Hague, Nikolic needs this person to lose the financial support that his party had previously provided him with. Thus, the former radicals, now "progressives", took a number of measures that greatly weakened the financial side of the RSP and brought it to the brink of bankruptcy.
A little more about this.
After the departure of Tomislav Nikolic from the SWP, the party began to experience serious financial difficulties. The reason for this, first of all, was that, together with Nikolic, all the main party financiers left the party, i.e. those who themselves allocated funds to the party treasury, or were looking for these funds. Also, with the departure of Nikolic, the party remained in debt on credit obligations, which greatly undermined the authority of the once strongest party in the country.
“The problem of the Serbian Radical Party is caused by the illegal conclusion of an agreement with the Intesa Bank. Tomislav Nikolic, who concluded this agreement on behalf of the party, first took a certain amount on loan, and then, by means of an additional agreement, reissued it on credit at 18% per annum. As a result, the total amount, which now has to be returned to the party, is 70 million dinars. In addition, the Radical Party owes one of the Serbian dailies. The amount of the debt is 33,571,000 dinars,” Dragan Todorovic, the current leader of the SWP faction, told the Kurir publication.
The radicals, of course, have taken a number of measures to get out of the current deplorable situation, but their effectiveness is minimal. So, for example, those twelve million dinars that the radicals receive monthly from the country's budget, as a party sitting in the Assembly, it was decided to increase by receiving allowances for overtime sessions by deputies in parliament. Those. The PSA deputies decided to hold additional, unscheduled meetings in the Assembly in order to somehow increase budget payments, from which the party plans to pay off loans and other debts.
But, according to Kurir, which in turn refers to its source close to the PSA, "overtime" earnings will bring the party an average of five hundred thousand to one million dinars per month. Which in the current situation is a negligible amount.
But funds are still needed to protect Vojislav Seselj.
Tomislav Nikolic commented on the difficult financial situation in his former party in the following way: “the radicals themselves are to blame for what happened,” he said in an interview with the Kurir newspaper.
“They say that I stole all the financiers from them. Okay, why did they kick me out then? Who drives a good manager? When I was in the party, it was good for the organization, and for financing 50 party salaries, and for defending Seselj in The Hague. I tried to prevent us from being among those who spend money allocated by the state to finance the party. But it turns out that today in the PSA no one is capable of such a thing, ” Nikolic says.
Nikolic is being cunning when he says “why did they kick me out of the party?”. In my opinion, his resignation from the ranks of the SWP was obvious. Even during the presidential campaign, this man began to position himself separately from Seselj. I have already written about this many times.
Even then, Tomislav Nikolic began to represent an independent effective political figure. And therefore, the discord with Sesel over political differences, in my opinion, looked like a natural phenomenon that was expected. And as a result - the subsequent confrontation, with the proposed destruction of the PSA.
The Serbian Radical Party, after the blows inflicted on it, will certainly get out of the debt hole. But after she recovers, she will already be few and weak. A number of deputies because of the "financial hunger" will run away from the SPP to Nikolic, a number will simply be confused. Therefore, it is hardly necessary to talk about the PSA as an influential political entity in Serbia.
Because the West does not need Serbia, within which there is a powerful patriotic movement that dreams of a "Great Serbia" and positions itself with Russia. The West needs a calm and docile Serbia. The one that personifies democracy and never rereads if something is taken away from her.
Nikolic, of course, can be labeled a traitor on his back, but this will not fix the situation. The Serbs themselves no longer want to live in “Great Serbia”, and besides, they don’t want to build it. They just want to live quietly, peacefully, and if possible and to the best of their ability, live their rest of the years and not worry about anything else.
And most importantly, never fight again.