Photo: Rade Prelić/TanjugIf the Belgrade elections are indeed repeated, it will not be because of any legitimacy or concession to Dragan Đilas, but because of the behind-the-scenes calculations of Aleksandar Vučić, who has proven that he does not care about the legitimacy of anything. By the same logic, it would be better for the opposition parties to prepare just in case for a repeat of the early parliamentary elections held on April 3.
If Aleksandar Vučić is to be believed, the Belgrade elections will be repeated. It is the president of all citizens, as he calls himself, disclosed where it belongs, in the "Hit Tweet" show on Pink TV. Why: well, only because the opposition (Dragan Đilas) raises the question of the legitimacy of the future authorities in Belgrade led by the Serbian Progressive Party, although according to him, Vučić, the legitimacy of the future majority in the City Assembly is not disputed, because they won the elections and have a majority, but , judging by Vučić's words, I guess not convincing enough, so the elections should be repeated.
The elections in the capital will thus be repeated, perhaps in November, or perhaps not, when, it is not known, just as it is not known how long Djilas will remain "Mr."
In the conditions of complete control of television with a national frequency, subordination of the RIK, GIK and the Republic Public Prosecutor's Office to the president of all citizens and the systematic slandering of members of the SNS at every possible polling station throughout Serbia where there was even the slightest possibility for matchmaking, arguing " legitimacy" is ridiculous. There is nothing legitimate in the results achieved by Bulgarian trains, parallel voter lists, pressure on voters, rounding of ballots with a red ballpoint pen, and still without any legal consequences.
Vučić's decision to re-run the elections in Belgrade has nothing to do with legitimacy, for which it is proven that he does not care at all, but with behind-the-scenes combinatorics and increasing the blackmail capacity of the SNS, which achieved a much weaker result in both the city and republican elections on April 3 than before, against the blackmailing potential of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), which fared much better during the wave of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, than expected. And Vučić likes to blackmail others and that others depend on him and submissively bow to him, the opposite situation would force him to change his ruling style.
Dependence on the SPS in Belgrade is an extraordinary stake for Ivica Dacic and for the formation of the Republic government, if Vučić, despite serious pressures, dares to form a government with pro-Putin socialists, but also a serious problem if the SPS is left out of the government, in which case he would have to impose sanctions Russia needed the support of at least one part of the pro-Western opposition.
There is no doubt that all the smearing, matchmaking and pressure, if the Belgrade elections are indeed repeated, will be raised to an unprecedented level, with the idea that the president of all citizens will once again be in a situation where he does not have to ask anyone anything. Djilas could easily turn from "gentleman" to "thief" again. It is expected that the opposition will quarrel with each other, and Dacic would be excluded from national television, and the SPS could easily be bombarded with deafening cannonade, so they can see how they fare.
We should also not rule out the implementation of the proposal of SNS deputy Miloš Vučević, as if he would have said it without consulting the "boss", to repeat the republican elections because the voters were "confused" that Vučić's name was on two lists, in Belgrade on three , so they "patterned". All this with the aim of SNS with Prilep once again winning an absolute majority in the National Assembly. Will the fame of his own invincibility take its toll at some point.
The repetition of the Belgrade, and possibly the republican elections under the pretext of no matter what - by postponing the formation of the Government, the introduction of sanctions to Russia, which is very unpleasant for Vučić, is being postponed - will depend to the greatest extent on public opinion research. Anyone who takes Vučić at his word for repeating the Belgrade elections is to blame.
Only one thing is clear: Vučić has shown once again that he is the master of the election, which he writes whenever he wants for the sake of some of his combinations, which, in addition to all others and everything else, has definitely and completely devastated the institution of elections. What Ćuta said: the only institution that is still functioning is Gazela.
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