Five years after the start of the pandemic the president of Serbia continues to fight - this time against the alleged "colored revolution".
During the pandemic, state of emergency I introduced maltenes myself, while the parliament approved it much later.
And now, while the protests are becoming more radical, and the police are beating the citizens indiscriminately? "We did not consider the introduction of a state of emergency and the introduction of a state of emergency is a complicated procedure," said Vučić.
"Vreme" in the new issue (on newsstands from Thursday, August 21) considers how "complicated the procedure" really is and what a state of emergency would mean.
There is always a way.
Lawyer Marko Pantić tells us that, hypothetically, legal mechanisms for such a step exist. "The law is sometimes so broad and complex that it can be explained by various platitudes, such as: threat to the state, vital national interests, suspicion of terrorism..."
Indeed, the Constitution of Serbia states that a state of emergency is a special circumstance in which "a public danger threatens the survival of the state and citizens."
Although it seems that the government is doing what it wants now, it could be even more severe in a state of emergency.
"Probably, there would be a curfew, at least in the cities, because I believe that the main goal would be to ban gatherings," Pantić believes.
But for now it seems that the mantra is in effect - stability despite the "violence of the blockaders" and the Expo at any cost. Well, until the mantra is changed, there will be no state of emergency.
Find the entire article on this topic in the new issue of "Vremena" from Thursday (August 21) or subscribe to the digital edition
