Dat vertaal over telefoontjes uit Europese landen zag je al in meerdere media maar Orban?quote:The Serbian strongman Aleksandar Vucic was close to staging a violent coup to cling on to power before his surprise surrender on Sunday, according to politicians and a former police official who have spoken to The Times.
The accounts suggest Vucic was determined to hold on to power after 12 years in office, only to back down when the Student List’s 500,000-vote majority in the general election became clear and he received calls urging him not to fight on.
“He sent 4,000 police and 3,000 thugs to central Belgrade to protect the regime on Sunday — I am 100 per cent sure he was planning to refuse the result,” said Spasoje Vulevic, a former head of Serbia’s anti-terrorism police unit.
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He said: “They had a plan to overturn the vote with brute force if the result was close, but I have information he got many calls from the police and others which changed his mind.”
“He was persuaded it would go really badly for him if he carried out his plan,” he added.
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But at 9.30pm, 90 minutes after polling stations closed, Vucic backed down and the thugs vanished. Unconfirmed rumours in Belgrade said he was talked down by Viktor Orban, who was himself ousted from office in Hungary in April after 16 years of allegedly corrupt government.
Vulevic claimed that Vucic was pushed to concede, but not by police officers since all commanders running units in Belgrade were handpicked by Vucic and unlikely to question him.
Vulevic said: “I believe Vucic got calls from European governments — conversations at the highest level.”
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