Why do we want elections now?

Students in the blockade surprised us on Monday with a request for by announcing extraordinary parliamentary elections.

We surprised ourselves. We did not expect that most of us would be happy with that request. So let's see what made us happy and why.

Everything led to this.

I don't know how you are doing these days, but my pump started tripping. She must have run out of gas. This beast we're fighting obviously doesn't know where to hit anymore, but we have to admit one thing to it: it's rocking and hitting hard.

Od March 15 on this way, we also started to get lost a little. We know roughly what we would do, but we don't know exactly what, nor how.

On Monday, when the students announced themselves, suddenly the horizon cleared and we saw the finish line. We have seen him more clearly than ever in these six months.

And more importantly, we saw the way clearly. And the one in front of us, but also the one that we have crossed in these six months.

Everything became sharper and clearer: from the first mass protest in Slavia, through Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Nis, Pazar and, finally, Belgrade... Blockade of RTS, student marches across Serbia, tour to Strasbourg, Student in every village action, marathon to Brussels...

Everything was leading to the elections. And everything that happens continues to lead to that.

What now?

Election conditions are no better. But, if we have understood by now that this government will never fulfill the first four student demands, and there is every chance that we have, why do we expect them to give election conditions? It will never.

Now we have to go back to the ODIHR findings and recommendations and roll up our sleeves. One of those findings refers to the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media, and there we already have some micro progress.

Some of the recommendations are unfulfillable - for example, stop harassing activists and the opposition. This government draws its essence from that, and if it stopped doing that, it would renounce itself.

It's better now.

However, some things have changed. It is unthinkable that this regime will ever succeed in bribing, intimidating and blackmailing as many voters as it has done so far.

There will be controllers, people are already being made available. No one is afraid of tabloids anymore. The opposition, at least those who have spoken so far, support the students' request.

If someone betrays, he will go down like Vuk Drašković in May 2000. From the biggest and strongest, he will become the most insignificant.

We have forgotten what a struggle that is not in vain looks like. We are used to breaking down from effort, and there are no results, to the extent that we don't see the results now, when they are there. Here they are, listed above.

Another, perhaps more important thing: if someone thinks that they have worn out their soles on the street in the past six months, they should urgently look for new, better shoes. The strong street is just starting and we will all have to join it.

There are no more students ahead and us behind them. Now we are all in the same situation: we drove the beast out into the open. We know how it goes.