Students and citizens who accompany them on these walking feats, were welcomed as the most native together with those who came the day before from other places. A dove of peace was also released on the stage next to the promenade along the river - this symbolic gesture of the two students is the most impressive gesture of understanding and respect between the Bosniak and Serbian peoples since the end of the wars in the former Yugoslavia
It seems that Đuro Matsut is what a part of the public was looking for, and got in Vučić's perverse way: he is an expert who should lead the transitional Government of Serbia, but not in order to create a political consensus and calm the social crisis, but to bridge the time period until the moment when Vučić - formally or with Zoran Janković in the team - can again sit in the cabinet at Nemanja 11
While part of the public was disturbed by the fact that Aleksandar Vučić spoke with the European Union after March 15, it does not seem that this means anything to Brussels. Perhaps the new student pilgrimage to Strasbourg brings a little emotion into that fenced political space as well
Sporadic actions of the opposition are of less and less interest to the public. The people are starting to self-organize in the absence of faith that the current political parties can fundamentally change anything. On the other hand, the regime is shaken, but until the prosecutor and the police start making arrests on their own for corruption, and not by order, a political solution must be sought for what is happening in Serbia
The opposition did not boycott the parliament (except DS), but it did not block it either. There are many reasons, but now it is as it is. Obviously, the opposition is not able to make a common agreement and strategy, and then work according to some plan. Although it seemed that the event of Tuesday, March 4 was actually a continuation of what the citizens call "pumping", there is no hint that after this "parliamentary raid" that earned them a reputation as thugs (which is neither crucial nor that important), any other action will follow. It was known even before this that the parliament is a front, like all other institutions. It is not yet clear how that can change
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The Prime Minister announced that he was resigning because he heard what happened that night in Novi Sad. We don't know if anyone could believe that, especially since information about the connection between the attackers and the ruling party will emerge later in the day. And what we have seen many times has happened again: whenever Vučić, as he did at the press conference on Monday, guarantees security - someone gets hurt
In a narrowed and devastated political field, opposition parties still fail to emerge. That is why a meeting of representatives of all opposition lists is the least they can do. There are parties that have MPs in the National Assembly plus the Proclamation plus Start-Change. They should all meet in the same place and try to agree on what to do. Nobody in Serbia cares whether someone doesn't like Đilas, Sav or Radomir
Around the New Year, healthy states watch a competition of four ski jumps and a concert by the Vienna Philharmonic. Serbia only watches the performances of Aleksandar Vučić
The tragedy of November 1 at the station in Novi Sad exposed the entire system and showed the true image of this regime. A new rebellion was inevitable. Protests due to state negligence and system failures that started in May 2023 were repeated in the fall. This time the regime could not say - it is not up to us. The blood spilled in front of the Novi Sad railway station cannot be washed away
Vučićević poured all the "content" that he established in his newspaper into the TV airwaves: a row of screams, a row of scandals, a row of fabrications, a row of the most heinous insults and a row of praises at the expense of the great leader and his friend Vučić... In the latest "edition", after tragedy in Novi Sad and the events that followed, a special "language" and special messages were prepared: on the streets are "Đilas hooligans", Ustaše, anti-Serbs, haters of everything Serbian, destroyers of national property
The former Minister of Construction and Transport, a loyal associate of Aleksandar Vučić, made history: he is the first arrested minister in the history of the renewed Serbian multi-party system that had some importance and was known to the general public
In the midst of the struggle to preserve the credibility of the ruling party, Aleksandar Vučić, member of the SNS and president of Serbia, is mostly engaged in his favorite work - political intrigues and shenanigans behind the scenes.
With her public stances in which she openly defended the government, the president of REM gave a new dimension to REM, sending a clear message: I was chosen by that party and I will represent its interests in all ways. And when it comes to the media, it is not advocating the media concept propagated by Pink and Happy, but a disregard for the "other side of the media" that she tried in every way to belittle and show as just as bad as the mentioned media platforms.
Vučić is the captain of a ship who constantly gets into trouble, which he causes with his bad steering, and attributes them to the turbulent water all around us. That ship is put out of trouble by the persistence of the captain, who simply ceases to provoke them, and the crew and passengers are told that waves such as have never been seen before have been overcome. Worst of all, the ship is sailing, it's on the water, only no one knows where it's going
When it seemed that the opposition could finally win some pre-election concessions and force the government to step down, the "Serbia Against Violence" coalition split and confused its voters: are the upcoming local elections a strengthening of forces for a future battle or the glorious dying of something which looked like a winning combination
When it dawned on Aleksandar Vučić that he could not prevent Kosovo's entry into the Council of Europe - which is in many ways a controversial decision by members of this organization - he prepared several messages for that segment. He started with "You will see what Serbia will do", continued with "Serbia will withdraw from the Council of Europe" and concluded that "the Council of Europe does not exist if Kosovo is in it". It is clear that it is a matter of "the shepherd got angry at the village" policy. Emmanuel Macron's visit was just a failed attempt to hide his foreign policy nudity
If it happens that there is no "MI - Voice of the People" movement, or that three movements have been made from one, then we have three groups of two councilors each, who float freely in the mud of Serbian politics and swim to those who are the strongest. If there is no movement, there is no "moral" dilemma that only some of his councilors will provide Vučić with a majority in Belgrade
Napoleon failed because he rushed to chase Kutuzov, went too far and then, in burnt Moscow, he could not wait for spring. Perhaps the opposition can learn something from this historical story if it is able to hold itself together. Ever since the elections in April 2022, Vučić does not have a majority in Belgrade, and that cannot be changed even by electoral engineering. Work should be done to sort out the voter lists, to enable equal media representation, to reduce Vučić's official campaign and to return him to the framework prescribed by the Constitution. But elections are necessary because now there is no other way to capture Moscow and overthrow the dictator
The media controlled by the regime, as usual, reported with one voice: The EP resolution is a null matter, but it represents an attack on the sovereignty of freedom-loving Serbia (so null and such a threat?), and Serbia recorded a huge diplomatic victory in New York. Of course, those who publish this know that it is something, but now it is a PR plan from Vučić's cabinet and you just have to follow it. And what is the reality and the actual situation on the ground
Information came from Brussels that the proposal for a resolution could have been even worse and that the European Commission and the European Council are being asked to suspend negotiations with Serbia and withhold any financial aid. Whatever text is adopted, the fact that the European Parliament is debating basic matters in the area of the rule of law and democracy of a country does not speak well of it. And everyone knows that
In a country of strong passions and weak media, politicians manage to dominate the public space without doing anything at all. Will Vučić, however, pass like his partner Nikola Gruevski and will Serbia, under pressure from the outside, get free elections again?
If people from the criminal milieu treat and mention Andrej Vučić and Zvonko Veselinović as their equals, is there any truth in what they are saying? Or the two criminals from Montenegro mentioned Aleksandar Vučić's brother just to spite him
The Serbian government is in a hurry to "form a parliament" before the announced resolution of the European Parliament and, more importantly, before the final report of the OSCE observation mission on the elections, over which a great battle is being fought behind closed doors these weeks, in which the Serbian government is trying in every way not to be fatal for her
A month after the elections where some change was expected, the country seems to have remained in the same situation institutionally and at the level of political power. But the election results, everything that preceded them and everything that came after them, show signs of changes that could be the dominant trend in the coming months and years. What did the opposition do well, where did it go wrong and how did the regime react to it
The Serbs from the north were silenced, their rebellion was suppressed, their independence from Pristina was annulled. Documents will be from Kosovo, electricity will be paid to Prishtina or there will be none, the border will be respected and there will be no smuggling from central Serbia. This is what the "peaceful reintegration" of northern Kosovo looks like, similar to the one in Slavonia in Croatia
