Letter of the former President: Today, everything we are fighting for – Politika gathered in Belgrade

Dear students,
Dear citizens,
Dear Opposition Colleagues,

In the previous half of the year, students freed Serbia from fear and at their invitation after decades of darkness, which did not see all these years – Serbs brave and honorable people, decent people who want to live in a normal state. They made that after so many years, Serbia heard again, which is why we love our state, after so many years of the authorities of all that are young and all our citizens went out of it. We also saw citizens across the country who set off to organize into choirs, ready to return their sovereignty, to election for their rights and rights of their neighbors and the end where they live. After so many years of destroyed political life, citizens began taking their political role and it is a key step for the return of a normal political life based on citizen rights, not on the cult leaders.

When I was in elections 2012. It was ahead that, unfortunately, he would have taken us political parties and independent intellectuals to the most powerful of our country from what was obvious to come to power, I did not have an understanding of all parts of society. However, even at that time, almost half of Serbia resurrected in defense of our country from the political evil that was horrowed. They have had justified or unjustified reasons to institute our authorities or do not go to the polls or vote for what we have in power today. However, now after 13 years, I feel an obligation to invite the action, that this time we are not « almost » again « to deal against that same political evil.

I understand disappointment in the opposition, but now I ask for understanding the circumstances in which the opposition seemed all these years. It was not even a little easy to make the right decisions and do not make mistakes under the terror of machinery, which was directed at the production of division into opposition all the time. With the full understanding of the reasons, from which the citizens have developed resistance to opposition parties, I invite that you are citizens, which is important today that we are still in one front and what we are fighting against which we are fighting against. I know what the victory looks like, but I know how to get lost in front of this threat to which we still stand today. I remind you that we have lost elections for only 1.7 percent. Every voice and every man is crucial.

We all mistook previous years. Not only opposition parties. Let’s be fair, when we finally all got up against injustice and lies. In previous years, the citizens were majority in abstinence in previous years. No student organization and fighting was not among the previous generations of students. It is not just an opposition that that failed to find the right way. But now together and only together we can find him.

Today, everything we are fighting in Belgrade today. They gathered under the flag of propaganda and lies, violence and threats, crime and simple, and above everything under the flag of desperate struggle for the survival of power, which has already lost every legitimacy. They gathered those who did a brutal terrorist attack on citizens ago ago. Today, all this political evil gathered to form a new movement and we must understand that today is the first day of the election campaign of that movement.

Dear students, citizens and colleagues from the opposition, we do not have the right to not all unite in the front today, which will fit opposite this evil. In front of this in a couple of hours, it forms in our capital, although we must not forget our mistakes, we do not have the right any more to resent each other at this time. We have no right to share more, because every voice and every man is important. Only indications of division among students on the topic of attitudes towards the expert government have already begun.

Only party vision of organization cannot give an answer to the circumstances we are in. This is aware of that and the regime and that is exactly why this non-partisan movement of their political evil. However, each responsible is clear that not only a student or civil organization is not enough. That is why it is crucial that we are now forming our front in which students will be united, the choirs of citizens and opposition. It is time for a new type of political organization that can only lead to the victory and propose an urgent meeting of representatives of students, the Citizens and Opposition to work together and agree on the basis of the plan of that organization. The last moment is for it.

I address you as a former president of the state and as a citizen, not as president of the opposition party. I think that in the front I propose, no one should perform as part of any separate organization, because we can only win if we all part of the same front. The foundations of democracy in Serbia were demolished and so we have to build new ones. Let’s start building these foundations, so that only then we could reform a normal political life on healthy foundations.

All these years, they ruled primarily on making a division between those who fought them. They came to power on those divisions. We do not allow those divisions and remain in power and to collapse everything that has lifted again from ash in the previous months.

As students say – smarter does not give in, smarter is organized.

Boris Tadic