Rebellious students they have already declared victory over the regime Aleksandar Vučić - once, in some elections, when the President of Serbia announces them. The people want them, they believe, that is, they will vote for theirs in the majority electoral list whatever it may be. They are so popular that they don't need opposition political organizations for anything, they say, they can win on their own.
And the majority of editors, journalists, analysts outside the regime's media machinery are spreading the word that Vučić has rung his bell. He can't win the election., say people whose opinion I value, society has rebelled, seen through, encouraged, there is no turning back. The people won't want him anymore, they elaborate, not even his, who was bribed by informers or bribed, even if not to a sufficient extent. The thermal phase of the regime has begun, they say, the system is collapsing, the ground is slipping away from the progressives. Aca Serbin was rejected by both the European Union and the United States, he is seen through and despised, they will not support him as before, only his mercenaries are defending him.
"It's over," my circle of friends and acquaintances are convinced. Only those elections will come, so when we blow and put out the fire, we will destroy Ćaciland.
The emergence of Belarusianization
Only I, it seems, think of prison cells filled with those accused of subverting the constitutional order and terrorism, staged political trials, special police raiding the apartments of those more dangerous unfit for Vučić's golden age who disappear in an unknown direction without any significant resistance in society.
Just as the society let down the teachers who rebelled, the professors who showed their teeth, the dismissed prosecutors, as well as those masses dissatisfied with the Kingdom of Ćaciland, who largely see Vučić's back, watch with folded arms the final blow to the remains of an independent judiciary.
The image from December 2023 comes to me sickeningly, every now and then, when several hundred people are defending their vote on the streets because of, in plain view of everyone, the unequivocally and provenly stolen elections in Belgrade.
Well, they tell me, there were no students then.
There is no crime without an indictment.
"A shark is not a shark if it cannot be proved," wrote Bertold Brecht in The Ballad of the Mackie Knife, one of the main tracks Opera for three groschi.
In the progressive epic, it went a step further: regardless of all the evidence, a crime is not a crime if no indictment is filed. It is enough that you control the prosecution and you can do what you want, and the judges and the police come to him like icing on the cake.
The attack of Vučić's executive power on the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (JTOK) and the remnants of the independent judiciary is not only aimed at stopping investigations into committed criminal acts that lead to the top of the government, but also to conquer all the space for committing unpunished future criminal acts for the sake of preserving power.
For example, who should sue if "Bulgarian trains" and "phantom voters" appear somewhere?
The regime has shown that it is resistant to peaceful protests, no matter how massive they are.
Preparing the regime for elections
While the students secretly prepare their list and publicly conduct an election campaign, which will also include a new meeting at Sretenje, in front of our optimistic views, JTOK is being abolished step by step, and the elections for the High Council of Prosecutors are being cancelled. The last barrier of defense of the judicial system is collapsing, lawyers warn.
Loyalists have been appointed to the positions of commanders of all police units, the BIA and the army are under control, REM has been neutralized, Bujket's mandate has been extended, Trojan horses are being prepared, a false opposition is being prepared, all that is left to do is patch up the holes in the judiciary and put a muzzle on N1 and Nova S and everything will be ready for the elections. And all this without tangible resistance from the rebellious society.
How the regime will react in the future to every spark of a physical blockade of institutions was seen a few days ago at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. At the thought of more massive street protests, batons and tear gas can be used back then in the capital of Vojvodina.
Those are the facts. Conclusions based on them can go in various directions.
"Fascism is when you hear the screeching of tires at night and you run over because you think they have come to get you," said the Chilean poet Gaston Salvatore. And when you know that your good neighbors will not have the courage to defend you. Well, it didn't happen again.
