User:Boris Tadić

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The President of Serbia

My name is Boris Tadić (Serbian: Борис Тадић). I am the leader of the Democratic Party, the largest political party of the Democrat Bloc in Serbia and the actual President of the Republic of Serbia. You can freely leave a message at my talk page, but due to the huge responsibility which will limit severely my activity here (on an internet democratic encyclopedia which I've become so fond of) I bear, do not expect a reply. I am professionally speaking a journalist, a Psychology professor and scientist and a graduated Social Psychologist and a Bosnian Montenegrin Serb.

I am one of the founding fathers of the Democratic Party in 1990, and for years have I fought with my colleagues the oppression of the dictator that imposed his will on one of the Yugoslav republics, Serbia; Slobodan Milošević. Even though I was an MP in the SPS-controlled National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia at times throughout the 1990s and the Federal Assembly of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia since the democratic 2001 (as President of the Section for Security and later even Chief of the List of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia), the fight for freedom & democracy was a fierce and hard one, leading to open discrimination by the totalitarian regime and even imprisonment. Even aside from that, I managed to be a member of the National Assembly's Section for Science and Technology. It is because of this plight that I hold dear for Democracy and will always fight for it. That brought me to the seat of Vice-President of the Democratic Party in 2000 on the even of Milosevic's final fall, after which I became a Minister of Telecommunications of the first democratic government in Serbia and because of that I founded the Centre for the Development of Democracy and Political Skills, dedicated to the political enlightment of the peoples of Serbia, the Serbian Republic, Macedonia and Bulgaria.

After a short period in 2003 when I put my skills of teaching at the University of Belgrade once again, and swapping my Ministry for the Ministry of Defense of S&M till 2004, I became the chief of the Democratic Party in the Serbian Parliament. A separatist right-wing political party known as the Democratic Party of Serbia then formed a minority government without us, and betrayed ways of Democracy by not only allowing the irredentist Serbian Radical Party and the Socialist Party of Serbia rehabilitate, but also asking Milosevic's (who was already at the Hague by that time) SPS for support, choosing them over us.

It is because of these turmoils that I not only the party's President, but I was also elected democratically by the people of the Republic of Serbia and became its very first democratic President, ousting the ultra-nationalist Tomislav Nikolić. As Montenegro broke-off the Union, I became the President of an independent country. On the 2007 parliamentary election, my party got the largest number of votes in its history winning 64 seats within the 250 assembly and was truly the one and only victor of the election. I plan to form a democratic government under Božidar Đelić as Premier and plan to run again for the second term.

[edit] Kosovo

The Kosovo question is a hard one. I am not here to deceive the people of Serbia, or anyone else - but the pace how things are going and including Martti Ahtisaari's proposal, which on February 14 2004 we refused due to it being unacceptable as unconstitutional and unjust, Kosovo is stepping forward to independence. But as a legitimate office-holder elected by the people of Serbia, I will never accept secession of 17% of my country's territory, and will fight with all legal and democratic means for it. Ever since 1991, the International Community's attitude that inner Republics' borders were unchangeable and all separatist entities were defeated/peacefully integrated. Why should Serbia be the one and only exception to this policy. The independence of Kosovo might (not necessarily) be a pretext to future destabilization, not only in the region (my motherland for example), but on a broader scale. Yet some repeat that Kosovo is a unique case and again what applies to all, does not apply to my country. The argument of the suffers that the Albanian population in Kosovo (undoubtfully oppressed by Milosevic's regime in 1989-1999 and subject to a brutal campaign of discrimination in the later 1990s), but for more than seven years Kosovo-Metohija is out of Serbia's (or former Federal) juristiction. But for that time, the undemocratic regime in Pristina has subjected the province's non-Albanian population (especially Serbs and Roms) to nothing but terrifying discrimination and oppression, especially through demands of unity of Kosovan soil, independence from Serbia and ethnocentric ideology of an Albanian state. So why should then Serbia be an exception again? Agin Ceku, the current Prime Minister of Kosovo and a Criminal refuses the rights of Kosovo's non-Albanian population and refers to the Serbs' proposals of division of Kosovo as "futile" and that they will fail just as the thing that Serbs tried to do in Croatia in the early 1990s in Krajina... but isn't what Serbs in Croatia tried to almost exactly what the Albanians in the south of Serbia are trying now (i.e. independence)? Then why this self-contradiction.

I offer Kosovo the largest autonomy in Europe and largest that it has ever had, as long as it remains within Serbia's international borders. Am I right? I hope so. I hope so for millions of people to whom decisions I am bound and forced to play God with their lives. In the end, time will show everything. After all, LIFE CANNOT WAIT.

[edit] Democracy & myself

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