In the balance of power in the National Assembly, whether everything in Serbia is normal or not, the opposition won this time - with smoke bombs and torches
We have to do the work, we have to adopt laws, I ask the majority MPs to go back to their benches, this kind of Serbia will never win, we keep working people, we have to keep building Serbia, you Aljbin Kurti pets will never stop us, you can only kill us... shouted the President of the National Assembly, Ana Brnabić, enveloped in smoke fighting off a cough and the thrown eggs of a stained white jacket.
Along with, of course, the propaganda nonsense that all this is the work of Kurti, who is in collusion with the Serbian opposition.
Once again, Ana Brnabić showed that she is a true heroine Serbian Progressive Party: on the task of creating an image in the Parliament that everything is normal in Serbia, she did not give in even to the smoke bombs that some members of the opposition activated in the Parliament Hall. She didn't even take a break from letting out fat and calm passions, as she did in some previous fights.
And it seemed that nothing new would happen, even this parliamentary session was a bit boring, without the usual offensive charge. The government intended to adopt a bunch of laws and additional borrowings as if nothing extraordinary was happening in Serbia, and only at the end stated the resignation of Prime Minister Miloš Vučević as if it had no meaning at all.
And the opposition, as usual, acted uncoordinated, some opposition deputies appeared in the hall, others did not, they chose to address the media in the assembly hall.
Nothing is normal.
And then, somewhere from the part of the hall where the deputies of the Green-Left Front were sitting, smoke bombs flew and torches were lit. The method is debatable, but certainly effective: in the blink of an eye it was clear that nothing in Serbia is normal.
It was a reaction out of impotence to the complete usurpation of state institutions by the parliamentary majority, which, by trampling on the law and mundane manipulations, frantically maintains itself in power. The President of Serbia and his employees mock in the face of people protesting in the streets across the country, students blocking colleges, insulting those who are not to their liking, while the biggest social rebellion in Serbia's post-war history is underway.
Aleksandar Vučić's MPs knew that they would force out their own, that they would vote on what they had predicted before declaring Prime Minister Vučević's resignation. But they no longer seemed arrogant and untouchable as usual. Somewhere in the smoke-filled parliamentary building, the question arose: is this government, protecting the interests of individuals, leading the country into fatal radicalization, the consequences of which cannot be seen.
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Anyone who condemns the regime's targeting of people from the media, the non-governmental sector, the opposition and universities, must not agree to this targeting of RTS editors and journalists either.
The government of Đur Mazut is "counter-revolutionary", focused on retaliation and state and street violence against opponents of the regime
Depriving Dejan Ilić, an intellectual with an impeccable life and work biography, of his freedom, without the slightest meaningful reason, is just one of the brutal indicators that the regime has turned against its own citizens and is entering a phase of terror
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