What do government representatives do? They care about Aleksandar Vučić's family more than their own. An authoritative mention of the president's brother is enough, and the entire tabloid-ministerial Agitprop goes into a frenzy. Maybe they don't know what they are doing, and maybe they have hidden intentions, it is only in that defense of the First Family of Serbia that they spread the most obscure gossip about it. The last one is that Vučić has an illegitimate child. As far as is known, no one except the defenders of his character and work claims anything similar.
Regime rhetoric in this form indicates the beginning of a new advanced campaign. Why? The eventual annulment of the election is not a reason. Even the most optimists in the opposition do not expect that because, simply put, it would represent Vučić's humiliating abdication with a public admission that he stole the elections.
Advanced scalp hunters therefore rode out on the warpath with more mundane motives. They have in mind the spring turnout of citizens for local elections, including - quite possibly - in Belgrade. No matter how cooperative they are regarding Kosovo and similar issues, the progressives will have a hard time avoiding entering into a dialogue on some kind of normalization of election conditions under European pressure. This is not about Brussels coming out to meet the opposition or its concerns about the state of democracy in Serbia, but about protecting the image of the European Union itself.
In this context, the regime is wasting no time and intends to finish the campaign of burning the political country before the election even begins. Then, - the dead 'cold ones - I can tell you those conditions of yours that you cry so much about, but for two weeks before the opening of the polls. Until then, everything will follow the tried and tested recipe: demonize, lie, intoxicate and promise anything you can think of no matter how crazy it seems. Let's say, Serbia's quantum leap.
Those miracles in Vučić's performance related to the specialist EXPO have all the characteristics of quantum mechanics. Very simplified - at the same time, something is and is not, depending on the point of view. The "Golden Age" is the National Stadium and Zrenjanin without drinking water; science center announcements and the collapse of education; 17 billion from poor Serbia for the mysterious EXPO versus eight billion for the Olympics from rich France; concreting of Belgrade and Third World infrastructure in its suburbs...
What can the opposition do, the reader must ask. Well, two things are certain - he must not give up pointing out the election thefts on December 17, nor accept that the local elections become another referendum on Vučić. That's why he has to look for and find solutions for pressing problems of local communities on the ground with citizens. And already today, tomorrow will be late.
