While the three-day meeting of the new political movement in Serbia is being prepared, information is arriving about quotas and the obligation of employees in public enterprises to attend it. Already seen progressive scenario
After years of announcements, move President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić gets the first members and organizes the first gatherings.
The next, three-day one, will be held in Belgrade from April 11 to 13.
On the second day, April 12 at 19 p.m., a meeting will be held at which the movement for the people and the state will be presented, announced Vučić. There will be "a lot of content".
According to established progressive logistic practice, buses for Belgrade started to be prepared, and public companies received quotas on the number of people who must go to the meeting.
There is a lot of pressure on employees of utility companies in Belgrade to secure quotas for attending the ruling party's rally on Saturday, several sources from the Center for Local Self-Government (CLS) confirmed.
As Nikola Jovanović from this organization told "Vreme", every public utility company received a quota.
"According to our information, the largest quota, which is 1050, was received by City Cleanliness. 'Cleanliness' was also in charge of providing 'students' inChacilenda'. A huge problem is that employees are required not only to attend the rally, but also to take a picture and forward the picture. The workers who contacted us see this as an additional humiliation. And some private companies that cooperate with the state have received large quotas, not only in Belgrade, but also in Vojvodina," says Jovanović.
And CLS "strongly condemns any pressure on employees in the utility sector in Belgrade and insists that workers are not mistreated".
According to "Vremen" information, government employees also have a work obligation to appear at the rally, just like employees of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce.
For Belgrade - six thousand people from Kragujevac
There is a well-known scenario in which the ruling Serbian Progressive Party fills buses and "forces" employees in public enterprises to go to rallies organized by the party.
Buses, sandwiches, photos on social networks - scenes have been seen for years now whenever the president organizes a rally.
It is not unknown that in those days the majority of employees in public enterprises, local self-governments, schools, and kindergartens spend their working days on the bus and at rallies with banners and applauding the main actors on stage.
Different quotas are mentioned for the upcoming meeting, and as the Kragujevac portal Rhythm grada writes, 6000 people will go to Belgrade from the heart of Šumadija. This is the quota that the city committee of the Serbian Progressive Party allegedly received.
That portal conveys the knowledge of the former member of parliament from Kragujevac, Nenad Božić, who published a list of Kragujevac companies and the quotas they allegedly have for the three-day rally in Belgrade.
Quotas are divided by regions and companies, societies and institutions. The biggest "load" of 500 people is with PUK Šumadija, followed by Energetika with 350. A rough estimate is that the Kragujevac supporters need 120 buses, writes Rhythm of the City.
#Kragujevac has a quota of 6.000 votes for the rally of the unloved. pic.twitter.com/OjWJ12xih6
— Nenad Bozic (@nbozic) April 5, 2025
Seven thousand from Jablanica
According to information coming from reliable sources from the Serbian Progressive Party, Jablanički district with five municipalities and the sixth city of Leskovac, received a quota of 7000 people for the rally from April 11 to 13 in Belgrade, JuGmedia writes.
They state that about 100 buses need to be provided for the trip to Belgrade, and they have been working on that for several days, as well as collecting sympathizers.
The largest number of people, as usual, will have to contribute to Leskovac, because the two municipalities, Crna Trava (which has the same population as a medium-sized village in the south of Serbia), will not be of much help, although all municipal officials and everyone who can move will have to go from there.
The quota for Leskovac was originally 5000, then there are the municipalities of Vlasotince, then Lebane, Bojnik and finally Medveđa, where SNS supporters are the most obedient.
"Now we are scratching our heads on how to provide such a large number of people, because we barely provided 2000 each," complains one of the members of the SNS Local Board, as reported by JuGmedia.
Each local board was given the task of providing 50 people, a total of 1450, Vlasotince 600, little Vučje 800, as many as there are probably inhabitants. Quotas are also distributed among villages and range from 50 to 400, depending on the size of the village and the number of SNS members.
"In addition, every director from Leskovac is obliged to provide for himself and nine other people from his company," says the interlocutor of that portal from the south of Serbia, stressing that SNS leader Goran Cvetanović did not threaten anyone.
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