Otpor had no interest in becoming another feuding party, and it was not concerned with jockeying to place its own members into political office. Therefore, it was willing to work with people from a wide range of ideological backgrounds. “We knew that defeating Milosevic and securing free and fair elections was something we could all agree on,” says Marovic. “So we agreed to put our other differences aside until Milosevic was gone.” Years later, sociologist Vladimir Ilic conducted a survey of more than six hundred Otpor participants. One respondent described the movement’s ideological diversity
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