"Even if you think I'm Assad, so I'm going to run away somewhere - I'M NOT," Aleksandar Vučić posted late Monday evening on his Instagram account.
"I am alive, I have lived here in Serbia all my life, I am grateful to my Serbia, I will stay here, this is my place, where I will end up." I will fight for Serbia and I will serve only my, the Serbian people and all other citizens of Serbia, never foreigners, never those who want to defeat, humiliate and destroy Serbia", wrote the President of Serbia, and for the millionth time he "warned" that Serbia is under pressure from different parties and that they are trying to destroy it with all possible "hybrid means".
"I just want to say to those who think they are going to overthrow Serbia, that whenever they think they can hide how much they hate this country, we will reveal all the details of how much money was paid in the days and weeks ahead. In detail, how much money was paid for the destruction of Serbia in the previous four years. "How much is paid for Serbia not to be free and independent, not to make its own decisions, not to choose its own future, but to have to listen and serve someone else," repeated Vučić.
This statement came in the midst of student protests, while 33 faculties in the country are blocked, and farmers and educators are also announcing their support for students.
What path did Serbia take?
Analyst Srećko Đukić tells Vreme that the question is why Vučić is being tormented by Assad in the first place.
"What does he find similar to mention him?" Is he troubled by the elections, or is he perhaps troubled by the path that Serbia seems to have taken irrevocably? The path of intolerance and ignoring every citizen's voice and turning Serbia into a true dictatorship", says Đukić.
In his statement, Vučić did not refer to the students' demands this time, nor did he mention them directly, sticking to the tried and tested method of silence. By the same principle, RTS did not mention in Dnevnik 2, the primetime information show, on Monday evening, that students occupied some faculties (actually half of them) and that they were blocking their work, just like in the National Daily on TV Pink.
While student dissatisfaction grows, the government refuses to consider their demands.
What does the president say about students
So far, Vučić has been a student mentioned twice. Last Wednesday, December 4, when he stated that the opposition is "literally killing itself" by organizing protests and blockades every day, and rejected the assessment that he does not comment on the blockades of certain faculties in Serbia organized by informal groups of students out of fear of the youth.
"What should I comment on, that we should prosecute those they want, but not prosecute those they don't want?" Well, that's not their job, that's the job of the Prosecutor's Office. They should have learned that not in the first year of the Faculty of Law, but in high school. The three of them enter the Rectorate and say 'blockade'. Four of them are sitting here, party official Miroslava Aleksić came to Niš and nine of them are sitting here. I told you the precise numbers," added Vučić.
Then, on December 5, the first progressive of Serbia from Switzerland called out "girls and guys who are fighting over money" for its demolition, "that they give them a little from the outside and a little from the inside" and told them: "Don't fight about it, children." .
Since that statement, the number of blocked faculties has increased drastically.
