BELGRADE, Aug 3 (Hina) - The popular movement called "Otpor" (Resistance), one of the most important non-governmental organisations in Serbia, which helped topple the regime of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, will become a political party
this September, the movement's co-ordinator in the northern city of Novi Sad, Stanko Lazendic, said recently.
BELGRADE, Aug 3 (Hina) - The popular movement called "Otpor"
(Resistance), one of the most important non-governmental
organisations in Serbia, which helped topple the regime of Slobodan
Milosevic in 2000, will become a political party this September,
the movement's co-ordinator in the northern city of Novi Sad,
Stanko Lazendic, said recently. #L#
"All of our efforts have so far been futile, as the authorities in
Serbia do not care at all about the activities and suggestions of
organisations that would like to see Serbia as a democracy.
Therefore it's high time Otpor became a political party," Lazendic
said at a news conference.
He dismissed speculation that Otpor would join the G17 Plus party.
The results of a recent opinion poll show that the G17 Plus party has
risen to the second place according to the support it enjoys in the
public.
According to the poll, conducted between 19 and 22 July, the
Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) of former Yugoslav president
Vojislav Kostunica is the most popular with the support of 16
percent of 1,545 respondents. The support to the G17 Plus was given
by 15.9 percent of respondents, while the party of the assassinated
Serbian premier Zoran Djindjic -- the democratic Party -- fell from
the first to the third place with 15.5 percent.
According to the poll conducted by the 'Strateski Marketing'
agency, the two parties -- the Serb Radical Party and the Socialist
Party of Serbia -- formerly led by Vojislav Seselj and Slobodan
Milosevic, who are now both in the custody of the UN war crimes
tribunal, improved their rating. The former won the support of
seven percent of the respondents and the letter 5.4 percent.
(hina) ms sb