Srdanovic: Student List Has Monitors at All Polling Stations
The Student List frontrunner told TV Vojvodina's Pravi ugao that the list expects a dominant majority in the October 25 election and has covered every polling station.
Ilija Srdanovic, who heads the “Student List - Students Win” ticket, said on October 20 that his list will win a “dominant majority” in the National Assembly of Serbia in Sunday’s election and that every polling station is covered by monitors. He made the remarks on the show Pravi ugao on TV Vojvodina, five days before the vote on October 25.
Srdanovic also said the list will protect citizens’ votes from any irregularities that may have been prepared.
How does the Student List plan to defend the result?
On election day, according to him, monitors in the field are supposed to do the job. This is how he put it:
“We have mechanisms to protect the vote result, we have prepared to defend the voting result. We have covered every polling station with monitors who will carry out efficient monitoring on election day.”
Srdanovic did not say how many monitors the list has.
Does the list have a candidate for prime minister?
Asked whether he himself is the candidate for prime minister, he replied that the list has “more than one candidate for all positions” in the government, because it has “such potential, strength, power in a wide circle of a large number of expert people”.
The list’s program, he said, rests on the Constitution of Serbia: “the entire program of the student list is based on the most important legal act of the state, the Constitution of Serbia, which is a bequest, a guarantor of our program”.
The Novi Sad station canopy
Speaking about the deaths at the Novi Sad railway station on November 1, 2024, Srdanovic said it would be “terrible if the culprits are not found, and dreadful if they, possibly, were pardoned by an act of the previous president, which we do not know”.
Why was there no debate with Vucic?
Asked why he did not take part in a duel with Aleksandar Vucic, who heads the “United Serbia” ticket, Srdanovic answered that he had been talking with citizens about their problems, as had the other candidates on the student list. He described the invitation to a duel this way:
“We are not obliged to answer the questions of someone else, to be summoned ad hoc whenever it occurs to someone in their political campaign. Our focus is on citizens, we have been touring Serbia. I had much more important work to do than to waste time with a policy maker who has no dialogue.”
Five days remain until the vote. The list has announced a rally at Slavija on October 22 at 6 p.m., three days before the election.
