While citizens all over the country gathered in the circle of family, the state leadership of Serbia Christmas was also spent as a family - in the circle of their Essenes-radical-informer family, in a live program at Dragan J. Vučićević on television Inform.
In the symbiosis of the pub and the party headquarters, with music "on uvce", food and drinks, the multi-hour afternoon program passed in a sign of festive warmth for those in the studio, baking and political messages.
Among the guests at the Christmas celebration at Vučićević's was the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, a guest in one part of the program, surrounded by a proven loyal journalistic-political community.
The president did not want to eat, so the host asked the waiter to remove the plate, having previously asked the most distinguished guest if he wanted "an ordinary chair or another chair". Vučić, somewhat surprised by the scene and the music, sat down at the table.
The music stopped, and the president began a two-hour discussion with the host and journalists of this television.
Christmas with the president and threats against the BIA
He talked about politics, foreign and domestic, about current affairs, but also about the Informer itself. As he said, there was an "external-internal initiative" to form a majority in Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) with the most important goal of canceling Informer television by March.
"We have evidence for that and they will be archived in the security services," Vučić said in a guest appearance on the Informer television program.
He added that she is the president of the Serbian Parliament Ana Brnabic, as a negotiator, was exposed to numerous pressures during the formation of the REM Council, and that his reaction ended the possibility of agreeing to those pressures.
Informer as the new RTS
After the president left the celebration, meeting his political father at the exit Vojislav Šešelj, one of the "occasional" addresses followed: the Minister of Information was asked to cancel the subscription to RTS and transfer it to Informer, because as it was implicitly ordered - this is where the real public service is located.
And that "public service" considered it appropriate to organize a Christmas celebration in which, through songs and speeches, clear messages of hatred were sent to those who are not on their side and with them, and that is already, according to public opinion surveys, a large part of the citizenry.
Ugljesa Mrdic, a member of parliament known for his hunger strike in front of the Assembly, respected the holiday and the host as befits. He gave a speech and thanked the Informer for its objectivity.
Everything from minister to minister
Apart from him, the guests included Vojislav Šešelj, Ana Brnabić, ministers Ivica Dacić, Milica Zavetnica, Zoran Vujić, Darko Glišić, Zoran Gajić, Dejan Vuk Stanković, the most loyal students who want to study (this time without Miloš Pavlović), Dejan Tomašević, Dejan Bulatović, as well as many other members of the wider progressive family.
Dragan J. Vučićević, in the role of a television host-tavern, praised the crust of the roast and almost hysterically ordered songs for the guests.
So the musicians sang to Šešelj: "Look, mother, how do you know, for a Chetnik to give me", while the song "Što se mala uobrazi" was performed "specially for Ana Brnabić".
Kadar Brnabić and Šešelja, while DJV, students who want to study, followed by the minister, Informer journalists and other guests sing and dance over their heads, beamed from the small screens for hours.
Dacic, as is characteristic of him, sang at one point.
Musicians' shoes
The host himself did not resist the microphone, but the one for singing, since he held the other one almost the whole time.
"No one can do anything to us, we are stronger than fate, they can only hate us because they don't love us", sang Vučićević, while heads in the studio nodded in rhythm and agreement.
There was also a greeting for the "blockaders": "God will grant that Voja returns to the parliament, and that they disappear", DJV said, alluding to the return of Seselj. A holiday message of peace, precisely addressed.
As the program progressed, between bites of pork and glasses of alcohol, there were also rustlings on the accordion and between the musicians' palms.
Between the lines of baking, there were also songs, not very conciliatory, not very festive, but certainly ideologically recognizable, despite the fact that Christmas is traditionally considered a holiday of peace and reconciliation.
In the Informer TV program, a song with verses offensive to Muslim women was performed: "Oj, vojvoda Sinđelić", with the changed verse: "The Turkish woman swore in front of the mosque that she only loved a Serb".
This is how the holiday program on TV Informer took place, and possibly in many homes across Serbia where the television was on: as a sign of family, tradition, music, meat, politics and the message that peace is possible, but only among one's own, while others can be hated and ridiculed live on a television program that is available from every operator.
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