What happens when the dams around Pionirski Park break and the hordes cat spill over to cities in Serbia where local elections are held? We watched that last weekend Mionica, Negotin and Sečanj.
"Vreme" writes about this in the new issue, which will hit newsstands on Thursday (December 4).
Photojournalist Zorica Popović talks about the events in Mionica, who says that the novelty of the local elections was - a total combination of thugs and police.
"For the first time in this year, I saw the police calm down the situation by pulling a gun on those present in the bar," she told "Vreme". "The feeling - helplessness, anger. Not because of the fight, unfortunately it is not unexpected, but because of the behavior of the police, because of the total abandonment of citizens."
The result is numerous incidents, fights, beating of a member of parliament, attacks on the observation mission Lines and the police, who are watching it all from the side.
"This is the first time that election crime has had this level of not only violence but also organization," he tells us Predrag Voštinić from the Local Front.
"Operational groups of masked people were always multi-member, five to ten people, and they had a free hand to use violence, but it was quite clear that no one was doing anything on their own."
Mathematics of free fall
The outcome was a "victory" for the ruling party and its allies. However, even though they won an absolute majority in all three places, their percentages fell dramatically.
Political scientist Viktor Stamenković writes for "Vreme" about the mathematics of the free fall of the SNS. "Now, for the first time, the elections have ceased to be a demonstration of force for the SNS and have become an unknown," he writes and adds:
"All this leads to a logical conclusion: the Serbian Progressive Party cannot and will not call parliamentary elections anytime soon."
**Read the entire articles about the elections in the new "Vremen" from Thursday (December 4). Or, even better, **subscribe now to the digital edition
