Because they were seeking to maximize their own power, the political parties were always guarding their turf. “They had no common goals and no common sense,” remarked Milja Jovanovic, one of Otpor’s leaders. Each of the political parties had ambitions to rule, and this meant that they were perpetually arguing among themselves. “One thing they all had in common was that they all wanted to be in charge,” Marovic argues. “So they spent a lot of energy fighting each other. A lot of energy was wasted that way.”
