“Atmosphere of lynch encouraged at Friday’s rally”

NOVI SAD Bojan Pajtic has said that announcement of a new rally and messages sent by participants of a rally held on Friday represent a “clear threat with violence”. The participants of the rally dubbed "Stop the breaking up of Serbia” said that “people’s anger cannot be contained for much longer”. “Atmosphere of lynch encouraged at Friday’s rally” “This is a message that a violent attempt to topple legal and legitimate provincial authorities will follow and citizens of Vojvodina have never tolerated and will never tolerate violence,” the Vojvodina Executive Council president told Novi Sad-based daily Dnevnik. He believes that the organizers of the rally were the same people who extinguished Vojvodina’s autonomy in the so-called “Yogurt revolution” in the late 80s. Pajtic said that the “atmosphere of lynch” had been encouraged at the rally on Friday. He added that the provincial government had been exposed to a political pressure for months so it would be reshuffled in accordance with the republic government’s structure. He stressed that early elections, requested by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), would be discussed only if the provincial government had no majority support in the Vojvodina assembly. “Since it has a two-thirds majority, early elections are not a topic for us,” Pajtic, who is a Democratic Party (DS) deputy leader, pointed out. “There is no separatism in Vojvodina and there never will be. The only thing we insist on is respect of the Constitution and laws of the country,” he concluded. The participants of the rally on Friday called for early provincial elections. Bojan Pajtic (FoNet, file) Tanjug

“Atmosphere of lynch encouraged at Friday’s rally”

“This is a message that a violent attempt to topple legal and legitimate provincial authorities will follow and citizens of Vojvodina have never tolerated and will never tolerate violence,” the Vojvodina Executive Council president told Novi Sad-based daily Dnevnik.

He believes that the organizers of the rally were the same people who extinguished Vojvodina’s autonomy in the so-called “Yogurt revolution” in the late 80s.

Pajtić said that the “atmosphere of lynch” had been encouraged at the rally on Friday.

He added that the provincial government had been exposed to a political pressure for months so it would be reshuffled in accordance with the republic government’s structure.

He stressed that early elections, requested by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), would be discussed only if the provincial government had no majority support in the Vojvodina assembly.

“Since it has a two-thirds majority, early elections are not a topic for us,” Pajtić, who is a Democratic Party (DS) deputy leader, pointed out.

“There is no separatism in Vojvodina and there never will be. The only thing we insist on is respect of the Constitution and laws of the country,” he concluded.

The participants of the rally on Friday called for early provincial elections.