Recently, Milan Miličević, the leader of the largest opposition party in Republika Srpska – SDS, called the entire opposition to a gathering in order to overthrow the current government. The same invitation was previously sent to the opposition members from the PDP. However, that hasn’t happened yet. Has the moment come for the fight against the authorities in the RS to finally unite the disunited opposition?
The opposition in the RS wants to overthrow the current government, but apparently does not know how. For a long time there have been talks about the gathering and joint action of opposition members, but so far everything is just a dead letter. SDS leader Milan Miličević previously pointed out that a change of government in the RS is necessary, and that the opposition must be united in this.
“Without any vanity, without going back in time. If we have a common goal and we want to be like that as partners, and the common goal is the same – the change of government in the RS, we will work together to achieve that goal,” Miličević said.
The PDP reminds that they were the first to define priorities aimed at a better life for citizens and the change of government. And in the People’s Front, they point out that they are ready to sit down at the negotiating table because, as they say, their biggest and only political opponent is the SNSD and its coalition partners.
“There is no other option but for the opposition to talk, to leave any internal friction aside and to turn to the real enemy. Not to our own, but to the enemy of this people, which is the regime led by SNSD. We are open to talks, because the system we have – single-district – does not allow you to win in any other way than by agreement before the election”, said Igor Crnadak, head of the Club of PDP MPs in NSRS.
“Everything we do is directed against the regime, not against anyone from the opposition, because it is a lost battle in advance. We will accept that invitation. There are things that need to be defined, but if we don’t sit down, we won’t even define them,” said Jelena Trivić, president of the People’s Front.
It is difficult to expect unity of the opposition in the RS because they have been disintegrating since the last elections, according to political analyst Tanja Topić.
“Those messages are quite controversial at the moment. We see that one part of the opposition is very clear and explicit when it comes to the moves of the current government and the passing of laws. We also saw that they did not vote, but SDS was also a political option that went to meetings at the invitation of the president of the entity,” Topić points out.
He says that there is no unity even within the opposition parties themselves, so calls for joint action are not convincing. It should also be remembered that the split after the election occurred, first of all, in the PDP, from which Jelena Trivić, the opposition’s candidate for president of the RS, left, forming a new political party. Whether the opposition will really unite and leave the past and vanity aside remains questionable. What is certain is that a divided and conflicted regime cannot stand on the line.
