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At the Assembly of his Serbian Progressive Party, Vučić begins the election campaign as a Serbian alpha male who received from the Russian alpha male what no one has, nor will.
The current Sunday is marked by three events.
The first is the long-announced meeting between Aleksandar Vučić and Vladimir Putin. As the tabloids like to announce, this is great news - the price of gas for Serbia will remain at $270 per 1000 cubic meters for the next six months.
Vučić himself confirmed that there is an indirect correction of this price, saying that Russian anti-tank weapons will arrive soon without specifying the price. Perhaps the purchase of the "Korenet" system makes some sense according to the principle of no evil, but what can be said about the statement of the President of Serbia that saving 300 million dollars for gas is worth one national stadium? If the advertised start of construction of this facility by the New Year is a direct consequence of the "fraternal" deal in Moscow, then the citizens will pay on the bridge what they failed to pay on the bridge.
Basically, Vučić at the Assembly of his Serbian Progressive Party - that's another event - starts the election campaign as a Serbian alpha male who got from a Russian alpha male what no one has, nor will. The progressive reason for addressing the voters is simple: whoever succeeds in this will get everything else. The Assembly of the SNS will therefore be a festival of self-praise, mega-promises, demonization of dissenters and the like, which is widely known. But he will also underline that Vučić is not there because of the delegates and party bodies, but they because of him. Does the same treatment await everyone else in the country?
This brings us to the third and final event. It is a coalition agreement between the Freedom and Justice Party, the People's Party, the Democratic Party and other smaller parties. All in all - most of the boycott of the opposition, plus the Movement of Free Citizens. Although the election conditions are the same, this time they have to go before the voters since no one understands another abstinence. Why? Because they allowed themselves to be eaten by locusts in the period after the boycott.
However, unlike previous elections in progressive Serbia, it seems that this part of the opposition has learned something from its own experience and mastered the first lesson. And that is that they stopped campaigning until the paper was handed over and then ran campaigns during the stoppage time.
They have at least five months before the election, so it will be seen what happens with the other lessons. Nothing will be easy for them to have the luxury of making life difficult for themselves.
After the incidents in the Assembly of the City of Kraljevo, Vladan Slavković, councilor of the Local Front, and Ivan Matović from the Association of Indigenous Peoples were detained.
The High Court in Belgrade sentenced Ivan Stanišić to an eight-month suspended sentence for violent behavior at a public meeting in front of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, held in memory of the victims of the accident at the train station in Novi Sad. The verdict was based on a plea agreement.
Marija Vasić, professor of sociology at the Jovin High School in Novi Sad, who went on a hunger and thirst strike after two months of detention, was transferred to the prison hospital. Her husband and her godmother talk to "Vreme" about Maria, their worries and what they are going through
The owner of the company "Eagle Hills", an investor in Belgrade on the water, stated that he made mistakes during the construction of that project. "We pay the state (Serbia) 200.000 euros a day, it is ridiculous to estimate that we pay six million euros a year," said Mohamed Alabar.
The members of the security of the Assembly of the City of Kraljevo brutally attacked the opposition councilors, which is apparently the first such case of reckoning with the dissidents of the regime
The regime's retaliation will be dire if the resistance falters. Now they want to imprison the people who talked about overthrowing the government because they were supposedly overthrowing the state. But the state was hijacked and overthrown by the regime a long time ago
The Ministry of Public Investment submitted a request for a building permit for the construction of a new building for the Belgrade Philharmonic. Given that it is known that the project is too expensive and that there is no money for it, it seems that this too is just another colorful lie
The knee-jerk Supreme Being trusts in the local elections in Kosjerić and Zaječar. It must not be forgotten that for 13 years he poured heavy poisons, especially in the province, and that detoxification is a long and painful process.
Extraordinary session of the High Prosecution Council
Prosecutors without protection from Vučić's pressures subscribeThe archive of the weekly Vreme includes all our digital editions, since the very beginning of our work. All issues can be downloaded in PDF format, by purchasing the digital edition, or you can read all available texts from the selected issue.
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