Friday, January 18, 2008

Serbia Presidential Election

Since few weeks, in my new country (aka Serbia), election of the future president of Serbia is the main subject on TV. I try to understand what is happening, who is what, what are the mains ideas of each and made prognostics about the results. [last year, when I was living in Sweden, there also was election, and liberal party won... hopefully I don't bring bad luck this time in Serbia!]

There are (i am reading it on wikipedia!) 9 candidates, and to tell you the truth, I remembered, and focus my attention in only three of them.

Each candidate has a number, what i think is a bit funny, and so you can hear on the street militants telling you...I am the 3 and they are the 7!


Let's start:
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the candidate number 1 is Tomislav Nikolić of SRS: Serbian Radical Party.
Slogan: With All Heart (Свим срцем)
His main idea is to keep Kosovo, to develop (or to keep working) the factories and manufactures.
He is, as you can guess, the radical candidate (very popular and powerful), He scared me a bit...
Last night, I was watching TV, and try to understand what politician was saying. Nikolić had an impressive meeting in the Arena of Belgrade few days ago, and I catch few recurrent word in his meeting: Kriminala- Kriminaliti-Albanaski-Srbski-Kosovo...
This meeting in the Arena, as already said, was so amazing. On the stage, many speakers, and also a group of workers, to symbolize the part. One guy on the stage, behind the speakers, with a black jacket, and a huge black eye. I didnt know what was his role in this meeting, maybe just to show how strong those men are. People was standing up and hold big blue flags. The public looked like a football team supporters, singing nationalist songs, applauding.
(As I already told you, I am watching TV without understanding what people is saying, but, as few you people know about me, one of my favorite hobby is to watch people and to analyze situations).


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the candidate number 2 is Jugoslav Dobričanin of RS: The Reformist Party.
I don't know anything about him, and don't hear people screaming "number 2" on the street, so I don't think he is really powerful.
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The candidate number 3 is Boris Tadić of DS: the Democratic Party. Boris Tadić is the actual President. Popular and his face looks nice, so I like him! If you read the article about "my first Slava", you can make a correlation between Nebojsa Andić (the man who droves me to the airport) and the Democratic Party. He will probably be in final with Nikolić and hopefully will be reelected. His idea is mainly about Europa and integration oof Serbia in the EU.
His Slogan is: For a Strong and Stable Serbia (За јаку и стабилну Србију)




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The candidate number 4 is Velimir Ilić of NS:New Serbia.
I dont know anything about him, havent seen him so much on TV but he is anyway everywhere on the wall of my town for 2 days so that means there are millitants in Krusevac who support him. I know his slogan:Serbia rules! (Србија је закон!); Choose Serbia! (Изабери Србију!)


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The candidate number 5 is Ištvan Pastor of Magyar Koalíció. Not a important candidate for my region, he is in the Hungarian Coalition (so I can guess he is more important in Voivodine).
He has announced his support for Boris Tadić in the second round.



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The candidate number 6 is Marijan Rističević of NSS (thanks to wikipedia).
I have no idea about who is it and neither about what is this party... I let you have a look on internet for more information!

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The candidate number 7 is Čedomir "Čeda" Jovanović (Чедомир "Чеда" Јовановић)
From the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). I heard a lot about him because my friend is for this guy. So, what to tell you, this guy is for the young people, for the EU, for the homosexuality... A kind of revolutioon for the country! He seems to represent the modernity and the future. If I understand everything, before, he was in the same party than Boris Tadić (the DS), but he left after some conflits with Boris Tadić.He is currently running under the slogan "Život je zakon!" (eng. "Life Rules" or "Life is the law") while emphasizing his determination to bring down every person inside or outside the Serbian government who oppose the idea of providing a better life for the people of Serbia. Once again, Jovanović has directly accused Miroslav Mišković, a Serbian tycoon, of being one of the most responsible persons for the underdevelopment of Serbia in the recent years



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The candidates number 8 is Milutin Mrkonjić of SPS: The socialist party of Serbia. I saw is pictures on the wall but I have no idea about his ideas!


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And finally, the last one is... a girl, yeah yeah! Serbian Strength Movement - Bogoljub Karić, has nominated Milanka Mara Karić (Миланка Мара Карић) after failed attempt to nominate her husband and party leader Bogoljub Karić, who is under arrest warrant.
Slogan: Family is the strength of Serbia (Породица је снага Србије.)






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