The chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the German Bundestag, Michael Roth, has said that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is no longer a reliable partner and that there is no place for Putin's servants in the European Union.
Roth made this statement in an interview with the "Nova" newspaper, where he commented on the December 17 elections in Serbia.
"International observers in these elections reported vote buying and the use of ghost voters in favor of the ruling SNS. These are the tools of an autocratic ruler, not a president who is committed to democracy and the rule of law and wants to lead his country into the EU," Roth said.
While the Bundestag Reporter for the Western Balkans, Thomas Hacker, has said that various observers have found various irregularities in the elections in Serbia.
According to him, economic relations between Serbia and Germany have been very intense for years.
"The government should be interested, if everything was in order, to prove it by presenting those documents, election lists. If they don't do this, I think the EU has an obligation to ask questions, to ask what is happening with the irregularities reported by international observers, what impact those manipulations had on the election results", he said.
According to him, "in the parliament of Belgrade, these manipulations, it seems, significantly changed the result and the votes of the opposition seem to have passed into the hands of the rulers".
It also referred to what will happen if the situation escalates.
"If the blockades in the north of Kosovo are organized by Serbia and if they can be removed with just one word, if Dodik was in a demonstration in Belgrade last summer, in a rally and said long live Serbia, long live Serbia, long live Russia, and Vučić stands by, that this also shows that the current government has national tendencies or is a step backwards, if the situation is such that despite all this it still carries out electoral manipulations, then we are very critical of this and that is why transparency is very important . Let's get the facts out there and see what happened,” he said.
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