This is not the first time that the progressive government has used Vojvodina for five-party propaganda, since they attacked Serbia and its citizens.
Those who do not suffer from amnesia will remember that in April 2013, a rally was organized "Stop breaking Serbia", which took place in front of the Provincial Government building while Bojan Pajtić was at its head. The goal of the rally was the overthrow of the Vojvodina government led by the Democratic Party, and it is also remembered for the fact that it was then that the usual progressive rally management was recorded for the first time: a sea of confused people was deported, with appropriate daily wages, by bus to Novi Sad. When journalists asked them why they were protesting, they did not know where they had come from or where they had gone.
It was also noted that the vast majority of those who arrived did not even attend the meeting, nor did they listen to the dull speeches of various progressive jalijas, but took the opportunity to go shopping and visit relatives in Novi Sad. And there is no one who does not have relatives in the capital of Vojvodina.
Another unusual detail was remembered. A local "controversial businessman" flew over the rally in his private plane as a sign of support for the progressives, but the rallyists stopped because they thought NATO bombing had started again. That "businessman" was murdered six years later, and it is quite certain that we will never know who the killer was, nor who ordered it. Allegedly, he thought that he was stronger than the big players who arrived from Belgrade and Kosovo.
For shopping and drinking in Sremska Mitrovica
While at that time the specter of the secession of Vojvodina was used to overthrow the provincial government, according to Milosevic's yogurt-model from the end of the eighties, these days it serves the progressives to stay in power, as a defensive weapon against the "invasion" of students and other citizens who would like, if possible, to return the state stolen from secikes and hochstaplers.
The rally in Sremska Mitrovica still has a lot of similarities with the one in Novi Sad from 12 years ago. People from the country and abroad were brought to this city, they did not know who was secession, nor why, nor how.
Also, a large number of them were not at the meeting to listen to the boring "subject institution", but were walking around Mitrovica. Some got drunk in front of stores, some went shopping spending their daily wages.
A white lie
The fact that the citizens, who have been thoroughly irradiated all these years with pinks and hippies, and the soliloquies of "incompetent institutions", do not believe that there is any chance for Vojvodina to secede. It is also clear to them, at least to the vast majority, that there is a greater chance of a meteor hitting the building of the Presidency of Serbia than of the province seceding, and that the progressive Declaration on Vojvodina is a farce.
Just as no one who hasn't had part of their brain removed with a shovel believes that students have provided the largest foreign investment ever, that is, that they received three billion euros to overthrow the government and secede from Vojvodina.
Realistically speaking, no one in Vojvodina, apart from a dozen fools, is even advocating for the secession of Vojvodina. Even the staunchest autonomists, if they are honest with themselves, are aware that it will be very difficult to fight, at least in the foreseeable future, for its elementary autonomy, even the one guaranteed by the Constitution.
Of course, this does not mean that the functional autonomy of Vojvodina would not be good for this part of Serbia and for the whole country. It should not be explained to anyone who is not infected with totalitarian and nationalist ideological patterns. As after all, the decentralization of power. If the state had been decentralized, if the government had been closer to the citizens and not hundreds of miles away from them, the "subject institution" would never have happened to us.
Radical plague
Vojvodina and its autonomy were killed in a joint criminal enterprise. There is no one who did not participate in that crime. Radicals in all their manifestations were programmatically in favor of abolishing autonomy, even removing the word "Vojvodina" from the Serbian language. All these years they have remained consistent with that work. Vojvodina's institutions were destroyed, they are ghost houses, and Maja Gojković is the bankruptcy administrator of the provincial government.
But they are not the only ones who deserve it. The post-October 2006th authorities are not innocent either. In the XNUMX Constitution, Vojvodina was reduced to a budget expense, but even what the Constitution provides for competences mostly remained a dead letter. However, it would be a mistake to equate the state of autonomy in that era with this one. There is a difference though. If anything, the Vojvodina institutions existed then, as they were.
The Trojan Horse LSV
There is, of course, the political Trojan horse the League of Social Democrats. Historians will assess whether this clientist party caused more damage to Vojvodina than the Belgrade centralists. For years they have been parasitizing on the idea of autonomy (they had or already have, it doesn't even matter now, and the idea of Vojvodina becoming a republic, but only for the sake of political trade), its peak was getting rich. They made a good effort to kill all other parties and organizations that were pro-Vojvodina, so that they would not have competition in trade affairs. At best.
In the end, logically, they ended up in the arms of the progressives, until they kicked them out of bed.
Belgrade opposition
The other Belgrade opposition parties wouldn't even mention Vojvodina if they didn't really have to.
For example, in the previous provincial elections, the single opposition list was called "Serbia against violence", not "Vojvodina against violence", and the coalition agreement on the list in these elections was signed - symbolically - in Belgrade.
The two bosses of SVM
Finally, there is the Union of Vojvodina Hungarians. (We will not now elaborate on the ill-fated minister Tomislav Žigmanov, a great Croat draped in the Serbian flag, because he is irrelevant.)
This party used to be a thunderous supporter of Vojvodina identity and autonomy. And now he doesn't even mention it in his drunken frenzy. Its leaders behave as their two bosses tell them: Orban and Vučić. Whose connection is deep: from political to criminal.
Actually, only Orban and the Hungarian ultra-nationalists sometimes think that Vojvodina should become part of Greater Hungary. But, also in the case of Orban, this is a farce for internal political needs. Like, for example, those billboards that he used in Hungarian to invite migrants to return to their homes.