After a non-public video of an opposition candidate for the Belgrade metropolis elections was leaked on social networks, he mentioned he would withdraw from the marketing campaign to battle the ‘lies’ being unfold about him.
Opposition candidate for Belgrade meeting Djordje Miketic withdrew from the marketing campaign for the December 17 native elections days after a non-public video of him was leaked on social networks and later to mainstream media.
“Serbia in opposition to violence” coalition candidate for Belgrade Mayor Vladimir Obradovic mentioned that Miketic withdrew “in order that we wouldn’t paint this whole marketing campaign with these tabloid headlines”.
“I believe that it [the leaking of the video] has crossed all boundaries of a good political marketing campaign and that that is the dirtiest factor now we have ever seen,“ Obradovic advised N1.
Miketic was twenty ninth on the candidates’ listing for Belgrade metropolis meeting members, out of 110 seats.
Requested whether or not Miketic additionally withdrew from the listing, one of many coalition leaders, Dobrica Veselinovic, mentioned: “I imagine that he’ll present nice accountability as a result of it’s a matter of a lot larger stakes and the stake is change in Belgrade, and I believe we should always all be guided by that.”
Quickly after Obradovic’s and Veselinovic’s statements Miketic issued a press launch saying; “Within the following days, I’ll cope with the authorized battle and lawsuits over all of the lies and fabrications which are being arrange for me.”
“Ultimately, I can’t enable [President Aleksandar] Vucic to jeopardize the victorious marketing campaign for the liberation of our Belgrade,” Miketic wrote on X (Twitter).
Components and screenshots of intercourse tape of Miketic and a feminine have been broadcasted on Pink Tv and printed in pro-government tabloids on Friday.
Final Sunday, on Pink Tv, President Vucic, commenting on one in all Miketic’s earlier political statements, known as him a “human disgrace“.
“He is aware of what I do know,“ Vucic mentioned.
The following day Miketic posted on X a screenshot of a Viber message he’d obtained containing a screenshot from a non-public video, calling it “proof that the [Serbian Intelligence Agency] BIA doesn’t shield the state however works for Aleksandar Vucic and the SNS [Progressive Party] regime, focusing on the opposition and residents“.
On Wednesday the video was out there on social media. Miketic confirmed its authenticity.
Opposite to its observe of not commenting on such issues in public, the BIA issued two press releases in two days, claiming it was “not chargeable for the making or distribution“ of the video.
Nonetheless, it additionally claimed “it was irrefutably established“ that the video was “made by a male one who was in the identical room” as Miketic and the opposite individual within the video.
Native, provincial and parliamentary elections are being held on the identical day in December, with the opposition pinning most of its hopes on the capital Belgrade.
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