"It is unimaginable what kinds of pressure are suffering all the members of the SDP who were running for the forthcoming local elections," Oliver Ivanović said after the resignation of Dr Zoran Spasojević's candidature.

Commenting on Spasojević’s decision to withdraw his candidacy for the councillor in front of the CI SDP list for the upcoming local elections, Oliver Ivanović says that such a decision was influenced by pressure.

"Under pressure are all those who are on the SDP's list, who are trying to just propose their program in the local elections and actually offer the citizens decision and the choice. What we have today is an attempt to have only one list. I do not know where this leads," says Ivanović.

The leader of the CI SDP emphasizes that such a situation can turn into widespread conflicts.

"Only citizens suffer the damage out of this, and in the political sense, the state of Serbia can suffer from it, and as the final consequence, we can have a completely inadequate local self-government like this one so far, the city cannot be preserved in this way. What the citizens advocated in 1999 and how we have preserved the city, in which I personally have built in some way, simply is being demolished this way," Ivanović said.

Oliver Ivanović highlighted that "another four years of the reign of terror would lead to the departure of citizens".