Serb Might Become Mayor of Vukovar!

Candidate Andrej, son of former Serb radical Rade Leskovac, is allegedly connected with car thieves and got probation for a stolen A8.

VUKOVAR, CROATIA – After Petar Janjic, a defender of the eastern Croatian city of Vukovar during the Homeland Defence War put forward his candidacy for the city’s mayor, another controversial person submitted his candidacy for Vukovar’s mayor. 

He is a young entrepreneur and, as of recently, politician Andrej Leskovac, the son of a known Vukovar Serb, Rade Leskovac, who was a member of Vojislav Seselj’s Serb Radical Party and war-time presidential candidate of the occupied territory in Croatia the Serbs called the Republic of Serb Krajina.

During the last parliamentary elections, daddy Rade Leskovac was photographed for posters with him holding up three fingers (Serb nationalist symbol) and tried to convince the Croatian public that it was not a provocation.

The young Andrej was connected with the biggest criminals in the former Yugoslavia, especially with car smugglers.

In 2004 Andrej was sentenced to four years of probation for driving a stolen Audi A8. Today he owns a company that sells second-hand cars. As a representative of the Party of Danube Serbs, he will become the first Serb to run for mayor of Vukovar since Croatia’s independence.

Andrej Leskovac has collected a sufficient number of signatures for submitting his candidacy for mayor and he is counting on the votes of local Serbs who lost their faith in the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS). He also has his list of candidates comprising mostly of young people and his party is also planning to have candidates for Vukovar-Srijem County.