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This year there will be elections again, we will see which ones. And it may be the last chance that Vučić's regime does not become the government for life that many have begun to accept as an immutable fact.
From a political point of view, the new year has hit Serbia the way the old one left - with split realities, depending on where one gets information and who one supports.
On the official channels, the general progress and joy - which the president personally witnessed from the car with Mali as a passenger - was disrupted by a handful of mercenaries who wanted to organize a bloody Maidan in Belgrade and give people a break from the holidays.
The Serbian Progressive Party convincingly won the "never fairer" elections because the people know who works for Serbia.
On the other hand, on the denounced channels - those of tycoons and mercenaries - some were seen powerful world at the protest near Terazi, there is talk of massive electoral fraud that must not be tolerated.
It would be proud to declare this new year "the year of unraveling" for the umpteenth time. It's a neat journalistic ploy, but inaccurate. Serbia has been politically living groundhog days for years.
Are these the first elections of dubious regularity? Of course they didn't. The performance may have been slightly different, tampering with the electoral roll more creatively and cheekily, but all that has actually already been seen. Especially since the opposition may never be able to prove that tens of thousands of "phantom voters" actually voted in Belgrade.
This is the first knowledge that we entered the new year with - for a huge part of Serbia, the elections ended on December 17, when Vučić announced his version of the results.
Those who do not agree with the fact that fights are regularly stolen so that everyone should agree to it regularly, remain a kind of guardian of the fire. And there are as many as there are - over seventeen thousand people came to the ProGlas gathering. That's a big number, but far from epic.
The desperate personal sacrifice of Marinika Tepić did not leave an impression on the authorities, and the question is how much it did on the so-called international factor. Russia and America have united on the support of Vučić's system. The protests went on a holiday break, a fight through "institutions" was announced, although there is not much point.
Something else became evident at the end of the year - opposition supporters have no desire to "chase anyone on the streets", as a well-known sociologist would say. Is it because they think it's futile or that it's not the time yet, or because of fear of repression, the mood only exists for rallies and walks that have been seen a thousand times and where "not a single blade of grass is stepped on".
This was evident from the fact that the people dispersed when the "siege" of the City Assembly began, as well as by the fact that there were almost more reporters than people, several tents and one guitar at the students' day-long street blockade.
This year Serbia will certainly have elections in most local areas, including some big cities. Perhaps, ostensibly because there is no majority, the Belgrade elections will be repeated.
The chances that under these conditions - and there certainly won't be any fair ones - will reach the progressive machine for grinding living flesh are not great, but they do exist.
Otherwise, four years of the same are waiting for us, from living in the tabloids to collecting money on tenders that will be faster, stronger and better as the expensive Expo and other progressive projects approach.
If there is anything new in the new year, it may be the last chance to somehow, who knows how, prevent Vučić and his team from becoming lifelong rulers of Serbia. To be a completely permanent government that everyone Googled and under which the citizens try to live their lives without meddling much in politics because they have already tried everything and nothing helped.
The famous "stick" hasn't ruptured yet, so we don't really know that it might not have been surgically removed. Maybe it can be endured forever, maybe it really is this dark for most.
Aleksandar Vučić now has only the old, proven methods of classic dictatorships left, because these modern methods of insanity and poisoning the public are failing. And that, however, goes against his head
Vučić is not defending the state, but himself from the state. With a drum on his back and a guitar in his hands, this man-orchestra performs two or three of the same songs without hearing, with falsifications and falling out of rhythm. His government and politics are like that. In short - dangerous for the environment
Arrests of professors, punishment of people, firing of journalists... The regime of Aleksandar Vučić is shining and is yet to shine. It is the decadent phase of the regime, the one towards the end
The example of the elections in Zaječar and Kosjerić shows that the truth is not given, but assumed. Truth is a task that a citizen fulfills. She always wins
It turns out that the opposition did not win in either of these two places. But before we fall into the abyss of defeatism, it should be noted that everything has gone as well as it can at this point. And that from now on, it can only get better
Aleksandar Vučić now has only the old, proven methods of classic dictatorships left, because these modern methods of insanity and poisoning the public are failing. And that, however, goes against his head
Vučić is not defending the state, but himself from the state. With a drum on his back and a guitar in his hands, this man-orchestra performs two or three of the same songs without hearing, with falsifications and falling out of rhythm. His government and politics are like that. In short - dangerous for the environment
Arrests of professors, punishment of people, firing of journalists... The regime of Aleksandar Vučić is shining and is yet to shine. It is the decadent phase of the regime, the one towards the end
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