It is the only suspense of the legislative and municipal polls on Sunday: Sabac, 90 km west of Belgrade, the last big city of Serbia led by the opposition, will it remain the village of Asterix of Serbia?
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Nebojsa Zelenovic, mayor since 2014, lawyer and former football player, wants to believe it. To keep this " bastion of normalcy ", the party he led, Zajedno za Srbiju (" Together for Serbia "), launched into the electoral race for municipal elections, despite the slogan of boycott by most opposition parties. " We participate in the elections in Sabac for the same reason that we boycott the legislative elections, " explains the forties.
We consulted our fellow citizens and it was their desire to preserve the assets of the city that made us decide to participate.To those, especially in the ranks of the Alliance for Serbia (SzS), a coalition which brings together the main opposition parties and of which he was a member, who see him as a traitor for having broken the "Agreement with the people " , He replies:" We have consulted our fellow citizens and it is their desire to preserve
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