After March 15 ended, that "D-day" after which many expected to give birth to some special idea, the question for one million dollars and one dinar is - what now?
Many have praised this one. March 15, how it will be a turning point in the fight for truth and pressure on the state, in order to finally find out who is responsible for the collapse of the canopy in Novi Sad and the death of 15 people.
However, few had in mind that the most hopeful for that turning point in mid-March is Aleksandar Vučić.
"The question - what to do next - is indeed a big one, but I believe that it is the one that worries the president the most," political scientist Dejan Bursać told Vreme. "He was the one who said that everything ends on March 15 and life returns to normal in Serbia from March 17, Monday."
The first Monday after the landmark weekend, we can already see, adds Bursać, that it is not so. Because they are already in Obrenovac on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning targeted local officials eggs, and some of them were arrested because of that, as "Vreme" found out.
Students came out in front of the Urgent Center, in the action "Urgent in front of the Urgent", amid numerous allegations that on Saturday evening many citizens reported to this health facility because of complaints that they experienced in Ulica Kralja Milana, which the Emergency Center denied.
Then there was a still inexplicable wave that knocked many people down and caused great fear in society - that the state possessed an illegal military device, but also that it had used it. Based on research by "Vreme", you can see where the wave moved, but also what kind of sound it made.
"Students, as well as movements, political parties, and the academic community joined the entire investigation into the alleged use of a sound cannon." This does not look like an end to the protests, which Vučić had hoped for," says Bursać.
Who is Vučić losing?
Thus, the investigation into the fall of the canopy is supplemented - a new one, and what happened on Saturday evening.
Dejan Bursać, a political analyst, says that the new process is a huge problem for the state system, because there is a potential new drop in the confidence of SNS voters.
"Vučić's math is that he has his two million people, that he can win the elections, because in Serbia, never more than 3,8 million people go out to vote," he adds. "These are mostly older voters, who went through various crises in the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, so they really appreciate what Vučić offers - a combination of some stability. If it no longer provides them with stability, and it has not been there for more than four months, a problem arises. He is the one whose clock is ticking, not the students."
This certainly does not mean that political actors, whoever they are, should sit idly by, says the political scientist and adds that "the opposition can be much more active, exerting pressure on the government, without entering the core of the protest."
"The main national topic now is the use of an alleged military asset, and we see that some have an idea of what to do with it." Whatever you think about their actions, whether a petition will work or not, it is a good way to activate citizens", says Bursać.
He also supports the opposition, which is ready to fight at the bar, because he reminds that the students also called for assemblies, and "who is more invited to do something like that than the opposition".
"This will end one day, but there will remain a huge number of citizens who will not be politically united, and will be opponents of the regime," he adds. "It is a chance for new political actors, or at least existing opposition actors, if they become more active with their own actions."
Less than two days of blockade - that's how long it took to see how weak and powerless the public media service is, both from the outside and from the inside. At the moment of writing this text, it is the eighth day of the blockade, and the sixth that RTS is not broadcasting its program. They also seem to be facing a strike inside the house. And the essence of blocking RTS is not in what it publishes, but in what it keeps silent
In the months after the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, the flames of rebellion spread throughout Serbia. The first protests started in Novi Sad right after the tragedy. The authorities responded with arrests, police cordons and intimidation, but instead of calming down the protesters, new protests followed.
The rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, has been the target of top state officials and regime tabloids for months, who label him as an insidious instigator of student protests, an opportunist, "the face of evil" and "the leader of the criminal octopus." How and why a rector became "state enemy number one"
"I'm standing in the cordon, and my daughter is shouting at me 'aw, aw, killers'. What should I do? If they ordered me - I would throw down my baton and bulletproof vest and stand on the side of my child," a police officer from the south of Serbia, who works as needed in the Belgrade Police Brigade, told "Vreme"
The recent formation of the Đura Macuta government is part of the regime's revenge and cynicism. This can be seen most in the "black troika" of new ministers appointed to deal with the parts of society that are the leaders and symbols of the big rebellion that lasted for several months, the cause of which was the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, which claimed 16 human lives. Education, universities, unsolicited media and parts of the judiciary that refuse to listen to orders, either publicly, with announcements, or hiding behind legal procedures, should be dismantled. Those who will have no problem doing everything they are told, even reinforcing the orders with their own inventions, are chosen for this.
Ministers often call Vučić a class teacher. There is no joy or critical reflection in his classroom. Everyone has to bow their heads over the benches, hum and listen. What this is about, the reader sees on television every day
RTS is blocked, universities do not work, and threats, insults and calls to the prosecutor's office and the police to arrest blockers, rioters and terrorists are pouring out from the top of the government. The Serbian state has turned into a farce
Anyone who condemns the regime's targeting of people from the media, the non-governmental sector, the opposition and universities, must not agree to this targeting of RTS editors and journalists either.
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