Serbia: new election, same results
Samuel Aranda/Getty Images Boris Tadic, Serbian president and leader of the coalition “For a European Serbia,” declared victory after elections Sunday in which his party took an estimated 103 of the national assembly’s 250 seats. True, yesterday’s large pro-Europe voting turnout did come as a pleasant surprise to Serbia’s EU supporters. In light of Kosovo’s ...
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Boris Tadic, Serbian president and leader of the coalition “For a European Serbia,” declared victory after elections Sunday in which his party took an estimated 103 of the national assembly’s 250 seats.
True, yesterday’s large pro-Europe voting turnout did come as a pleasant surprise to
But “victory,” this election was not. If anything, Sunday has shown just how little has changed in
Once again, the SRS, whose founder currently stands trial at the Criminal Tribunal for the former
But the take away message from Sunday’s results is not one of Milosevic’s inescapable legacy or of inevitable stagnation. Rather, it’s the recognition that
Inner change was the message of
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