How can a party that supposedly has 700.000 members and acted like a machine today barely hold a rally in the village center of culture
Burnt book on two letters - this is what the staff deck looks like these weeks Serbian Progressive Party. Out of 700.000 members, there are hardly a few to stand on a stand.
"Conversations with the people" are increasingly being held indoors, and the halls are getting smaller. The pompously announced "biggest rally" for March 28 it simply wasn't held.
In the regime's media and press, there are about a dozen people - Šešelj, Bokan, Krstić... Well, all around.
Is the overthrow of the regime in the midst of the rebellion that has gripped Serbia for five months? "Vreme" writes about that topic in the new issue, which is on newsstands from this Thursday (April 3).
Hiding progressives
Ivan Stanojević, assistant professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Scienceand the University of Belgrade, says that the infantry of the SNS was not involved in major corruption, for example during the overhaul of the railway station in Novi Sad where the canopy crushed sixteen people.
"Now the regime would put them on the sidelines against angry fellow citizens, and people are rational enough not to be in that fire," Stanojević told "Vreme".
Rastislav Dinić, assistant professor at the University of Niš Faculty of Philosophy and a deputy Green-Left Front, says that this shows the unenviable number of those who will put reputation, time, public visibility and even some safety on the line.
"Was that number ever significantly higher? I don't know, but they certainly gave the impression that it was. And the aggravation of the situation additionally leads to the shedding of people who were in the party only because of the cost-benefit calculation," adds Dinić.
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The Irshot organization, based on hundreds of statements and videos from the protests in Belgrade on March 15, claims that acoustic weapons were "very likely" used on peaceful demonstrators.
The "sound cannon" saga continues: Police Minister Ivica Dacic now claims that "unpleasant tones" could not be released from the sound cannon on March 15 because, as he says, that mode is "blocked" in Serbia
After Dragan Šolak and Viktorija Boklag were dismissed from their leading positions, the editors within the United Media company addressed the European public with an appeal in which they express concern for the future of independent journalism in the Balkans. They warn that this change could open the door to political influence in one of the last bastions of free media in the region.
Despite the all-night blockade and strong security measures, the eighth session of the Assembly of Novi Sad began this morning. Early in the morning, the police forcibly removed the gathered protesters, in which one student was injured and another was detained. Councilors discuss the budget rebalancing and over 140 items on the agenda
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The dramatic appeal of United Media employees shows what can happen when the media is controlled by the regime and corporations. It is happening in Serbia now. If the audience does not recognize this, an even blacker media darkness threatens
Aleksandar Vučić now has only the old, proven methods of classic dictatorships left, because these modern methods of insanity and poisoning the public are failing. And that, however, goes against his head
Vučić is not defending the state, but himself from the state. With a drum on his back and a guitar in his hands, this man-orchestra performs two or three of the same songs without hearing, with falsifications and falling out of rhythm. His government and politics are like that. In short - dangerous for the environment
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