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Unraveling the Dictator: Political Masterpieces of Rebellious Students
With small political masterpieces, the students brought down Aleksandar Vučić. What did they understand that we older people didn't understand all these years
Will there be elections and when?
The President's fear of the ballot box
When the students came out with a unifying, for some long-awaited demand for extraordinary parliamentary elections, they hit the target. This request is obviously too big a challenge for the progressives, they and their partners don't know what to do with it, which can be seen mostly from their confused statements - like: it can be, but it doesn't have to mean, just take the medicine to my aunt and I'll think about it. The students hit Vučić where it hurts the most, two times in a row: first by claiming that he is an "incompetent institution", and now that he has become a "coward". He must not call elections, which he has been threatening every now and then for 13 years and which he calls when he feels like it, always sure of victory
From the new issue of "Vremena"
Extraordinary elections: Students hit the center of Vučić's fear
The demand for early parliamentary elections rocked a regime that wins only when it runs against itself. While SNS is celebrating "victories" in local communities without an opponent, support is pouring out before their eyes. And students and professors are defying and demanding real elections, not another regime performance
President of Serbia
Vučić from Zaječar tells the students: Nothing from the election to the Expo
As part of the campaign before the local elections, the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić visited Zaječar and stated that the citizens are "fed up with stopping Serbia" and that they will call for elections when preparations for the Expo are completed
Student protests
Protest in Belgrade: Are students preparing a new March 15?
Students in the blockade have announced a protest in Belgrade in front of the Government of Serbia for May 30. However, is that all
Politics
Vučić: "The elections will show who is the majority Serbia"
Speaking on Pink TV, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said that in the case of attempts to endanger vital systems, the blockers will be brought to justice "to the full extent of their rights and will be held accountable for every crime they have committed."
Extraordinary parliamentary elections
Demand for early elections: "Coward!"
Students challenge Vučić to stand on their side in the elections and call him a coward. The government is running away from the elections for the first time, but so is a part of the opposition that is not happy with the student conditions
University of Niš
Students from Niš to Vučić: Call elections or bear political responsibility
The blockade of the University of Niš took on a new political dimension - the students asked President Vučić to prove the legitimacy of the government in the elections. In the letter, they tell him that free and fair elections are the only way to test the will of citizens and restore trust in institutions
Local elections in Zaječar and Kosjerić
Students and others in the campaign
The progressive government is fighting hand and foot to win in two different places, because they would not dare to look at Aleksandar Vučić if they lose. On the other hand, the rest of Serbia is rooting for them to start from Zaječar and Kosjerić, so that they "go in order" across the country and thus see the backs of those who have been governing in every place, every street and every village for 13 years.
Overview of the week
It's dark and cloudy, bazaar storks
If the various opponents of Vučić's regime are unable to help the student youth, they could at least not retaliate. They have been working the same way and with the same disastrous results for too long to expect anyone to ask them anything
New issue of "Vremena"
"The student movement has a real chance of winning the elections"
The students in the blockade demand the dissolution of the Assembly and the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections. What are their chances? It is the title theme of the new "Vremena"
Student request for calling extraordinary parliamentary elections
Serbia's historic chance
The students' decision to submit a request to the regime for the dissolution of the state parliament and the calling of extraordinary republican elections did not fall from Mars. This option has been vigorously discussed at plenums for a long time, and the matter was cut short when it became clear to everyone, but absolutely everyone, that the government not only does not want to fulfill the students' demands, but responds to the political crisis with ever stronger repression and increasingly dirty propaganda. And when no one could dispute the fact that the regime is the generator of all social and political anomalies, and that thanks to it the Novi Sad canopy hangs over the head of every citizen of this country
Student movement
Can the impossible become possible?
The call for elections is a call to the regime, and it remains to be seen whether there will also be a student call to everyone else for a social agreement on how to oppose the regime in future elections. They can be announced unexpectedly quickly, and may not be there before some "regular appointment" unless there is extremely strong pressure on the street.
Interview: Helmut Brandstatter, Member of the European Parliament
The decision on new elections belongs only to Serbia
"We must clearly say to Mr. Vučić: 'The way you are leading this country now, you will never enter the European Union. You must respect the rule of law, other political parties, parliament and free media.'
Exit from the crisis
Extraordinary elections or state of emergency in the country: Students threw down the gauntlet in the face of the authorities
Students in the blockade of all universities in Serbia are no longer just looking for moral support - they are looking for political responsibility. The request for early elections was also supported by the opposition parties, but the key question remains: how to force the government to give in and is there a way to really hold the elections under fair conditions?
Politics
Demostat: One front in all elections against the government
The only way to the success of the opposition and students leads through a clear unification into a functional political front - without the old illusions about "columns" and "groups of citizens", says Demostat
Early Elections
Students do not give up: Elections or political ruin
More than six months have passed since the fall of the canopy of the railway station in Novi Sad, the faculties have been blocked for more than five months, the demands of the students have not been met, and the next one has come - the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections. The question arises - why now?
Early Elections
Students for "Vreme": How will they choose people for the election list?
Questions are being asked about who will be the candidates on the student electoral list if the elections are called
Student protests
Extraordinary elections: What are the first reactions to the new student request
The students in the blockade announced that they demand the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections. What are the reactions?
Extraordinary vote
Students in the blockade demand parliamentary elections
Students in the blockade announced that they are demanding early parliamentary elections on social networks
Politics
The SNS does not care that the students are asking for elections: "The numbers are not so favorable"
Five months after the beginning of the blockades, there are increasingly frequent indications among students and the public that the elections will take place after all. Dejan Bursać, a research associate at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, believes that this is a good way towards the political articulation of the rebellion.
Overview of the week
Ćacije's tent and the prime minister's real estate
With the inclusivity created at the plenums, students should continue during election engagement. Every vote is important, every percentage is valuable. And no one is redundant there, including the opposition at some point - whatever it may be
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Don't hold elections, says the "Cookbook for Staying in Power"
Who mentions the extraordinary elections when the rating of the party in power is falling, and according to all surveys, Vučić is not the most important political factor in the country, but the students?
Student protests
If the students want elections, the opposition has no choice
The first plenums are already calling for extraordinary elections in Serbia and announcing the student list. "Who would even be allowed to run against students? That would be suicide," says one of the opposition leaders
2023 Elections
Snap elections: Vučić's attempt to regain control
The coalition of radicals and progressives tells us that the government is very worried about the result of the Belgrade elections. Therefore, they will probably try to include all those who have any number of votes in the coalition, says Dušan Spasojević from the Faculty of Political Sciences.
Election 2023.
"Serbia against violence": Intensive negotiations on a joint list
The list, which will be called "Serbia against violence", would include parliamentary parties that organize protests, as well as Zdravko Ponoš's SRCE, as well as several SDS candidates of Boris Tadić. With this list, the so-called the pro-European opposition took part in the extraordinary parliamentary, provincial and Belgrade elections announced for December 17
Serbia before the elections
What and when must be done in order to hold the elections on December 17?
The Government of Serbia should formally propose the dissolution of the Serbian Parliament by November 2 at the latest. Elections for the new convocation of the Vojvodina Parliament must be announced no later than November 17, and it is expected that the President of the Serbian Parliament will simultaneously announce extraordinary elections in all 66 cities and municipalities.