Students have shown that they can argue with the authorities indefinitely. They don't show an iota of fatigue, fear, they are quick, organized, motivated to normalize the abnormal country they live in and start more and more massive civil disobedience
Students called, and the citizens responded: on Friday, January 24, another one wave of rebellion flooded Serbia. This time, bigger than all the previous ones against the autocracy he is at the head of Aleksandar Vučić.
Under the name of "general strike", civil disobedience broke out across the country, up and down society. Wherever the representatives of the government looked, they could see resistance, people who were full of it - in faculties, schools, the judiciary, Kolubara, the IT sector, RTS, cafes, shops, craft shops...
Citizens across the country once again ignored all the threats, the growling of Vučić's ministers and the pelting of trees, stones and lies by the regime's media on all those who publicly express their displeasure. Streets, intersections and highways were blocked by students, high school students, professors, teachers, teachers, lawyers, programmers, farmers, workers...
Unlike all previous protests against everything that the Serbian Progressive Party does, represents and is responsible for, this one gives the impression that it cannot be stopped because it is led by young people. Their energy seems inexhaustible and contagious.
One gets the impression that students can argue with the authorities indefinitely like this. They do not show an iota of fatigue or fear, they are fast, mobile, disciplined and motivated to normalize the abnormal country in which they live.
And others follow them.
Everything the government has done so far to suppress this youth uprising, it's as if they were throwing firecrackers on a raging fire. The students turned the reality of Serbia into a nightmare for a team steeped in power, corruption and money.
Attempted aggravated murder
Once again, one could see the consequences of the wanton smearing of the students who rose up against the illegitimate state, that Kanda were some kind of foreign mercenaries who were messing around with Kurti: one young woman simply pressed the gas pedal and ran over a female student who was employed as a security guard.
Aleksandar Vučić and all those who represent them as anti-Serbian evil who want to destroy Serbia for foreign money are directly responsible for the actions of anyone who runs into young people with a car, which is legally interpreted as an attempt at aggravated murder, for physical attacks on protesting students . Such a narrative is incitement to violence.
Counter-rally in Jagodina
Vučić's attempt to match everything that has been happening in the country since November 1 last year counter-rally in Jagodina he seemed unconvincing.
Using all its inexhaustible resources, the government brought several tens of thousands of people to the city of the late Palma to shout "Aco Serbs!" and praise the president of Serbia, who is trying to create some kind of people's movement that should be a surrogate for the Serbian Progressive Party, in which its members also started. to see a hotbed of crime and robberies.
At the meeting, Vučić routinely repeated striking slogans from his usual repertoire, uttered in about twenty minutes what he repeats every day on the regime's media - a paranoid-xenophobic mishmash decorated with average salaries of 1400 and pensions of 640 euros.
After that, the world dispersed and headed for the big buses to take them home.
Television Pink mostly filmed the rally from drones, there were few close-up shots. Everything was followed by the usual special show with always the same characters who celebrate Vučić and sow conspiracies.
Miraculously, on Friday in Dnevnik 2, RTS had a very accurate report about the protests across Serbia, the news that a female student was run over was even in the first place in the editorial, before the events in Jagodno.
Non-existent opposition parties
On January 24, the absence of representatives of the opposition was noticeable once again. This massive civil resistance that we are witnessing, which went beyond the original student demands in wanting systemic changes, also began despite the existence of opposition political parties, not thanks to them.
The security of Vučić's regime currently rests on this, which has begun to seriously shake on the storm of civil discontent and disobedience. Citizens who began to defy the undemocratic system of government do not recognize the leaders of the opposition as people who could lead Serbia to change.
The action of the opposition parties is currently limited to the demand for a transitional government and actions that are more suitable for non-governmental organizations and the civil sector, than for political parties.
Once again they prove that they don't know what to do with the huge dissatisfaction that is breaking out from every pore of society.
They are not even able to agree, for example, on a shadow government that would be an alternative to the existing ministerial set.
It is very possible that Serbia, after more than 12 years of progressive government, has embarked on a path towards changes from which there is no turning back.
But it is uncertain how long he could last because the president of Serbia and all his people will not give up their power and jobs without a tough fight.
And even the students will not give up their demands like that.
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