The billboard’s strapline is Strucnost ispred politike (Experts not politicians), suggesting that Dinkic and his G17 Plus cohorts who resigned from the ruling coalition in mid-November in protest at the lack of progress over EU accession negotiations clearly regard themselves as being a cut above the other Serbian political parties.
Whether an electorate still smarting from the country’s recent divorce from Montenegro and concerned about the possible loss of Kosovo will warm to such a technocratic approach remains open to question, despite Dinkic’s impressive performance as first central bank governor from 2000 to July 2003 and then finance minister from March 2004.
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