The speech of the head of state, Aleksandar Vučić, is best described by the word - indisposition. The March 15 protest is his heavy political defeat. Now everyone saw that he no longer had the ability to prevent events, let alone create them
It is Belgrade March 15 saw the largest gathering in history. How many people are there? took to the streets? No one knows yet, but it is certain that the number is many times higher than the police estimate of 107.
What are first impressions? Certainly - yes a huge number of citizens they no longer see the future of the state and their own under the progressive regime of Aleksandar Vučić.
Simply, the current structure of government is broken. Serbia has no government, and the National Assembly and the vast majority of local assemblies are meaningless. Education has disintegrated, universities are in open rebellion, while public services - including the police and the army - function by inertia. The protest in Belgrade is a clear manifestation that this situation is unsustainable, even in the short term.
The current president of Serbia has never performed his function in the service of national unity. On the contrary, with his actions - especially in the last four and a half months - he has become the main generator of the crisis, a source of conflict and potential violence. The fact that it was avoided on March 15th should be thanked exclusively by the students, by no means by the head of state and the regime. They did everything they could to provoke violence.
All the time, Vučić behaves in a hostile and provocateur manner, putting out the fire with gasoline. For a transitional or expert government - the only way to overcome the crisis - he repeats that it is only possible through him being dead. Nobody wants him dead. On the contrary - citizens say they want peaceful changes, that is, fair and honest elections. And those without a body with a full political mandate to prepare them are not possible. What next?
In sports terms, the ball is in Vučić's penalty area. The March 15 protest is his heavy political defeat. Can he accept it and thus, even partially, contribute to the lowering of tensions and the beginning of the exit from the crisis?
Vučić's address to the citizens is best described by the word - indisposition. He repeated the standard insults and threats, declared victory over the "color revolution", praised the peacefulness of the students about whom he "thinks the worst", endlessly detailed the ephemeral events of the protest, argued with posts on social networks....
He didn't say anything important. On the contrary, he acted like a man without ideas and the head of the party whose most important thing is to encourage the demoralized membership, so he behaved as if he did not recognize that the reality is very different from what he says.
Has the last word of the President of Serbia been spoken? Difficult - he is on the tail end of events and is unable to prevent them, let alone create them. His address was therefore an attempt to repair the damage so that he would see what he would do and how he would do it later.
So - the depth of the crisis is increasing and entering a new phase. Vučić and the progressives can no longer compensate for the regime's heavy losses suffered on March 15 in Belgrade.
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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These are the last days when there is a chance that the great rebellion in Serbia will not pass in vain and without a political result. If it goes that way, the regime will launch an even stronger retaliation
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
Vučić and Šešelj: Where I stopped, you continue
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