The opposition, committed to the policy of fighting bare legal and media violence with non-violent methods, can only hope that some other wind will begin to blow from Brussels and Washington.
The opposition MPs who claim that the December 17 elections were stolen could do anything today, let's say they call on citizens to block both entrances to the Serbian Parliament, postpone the constituent session for an indefinite period, provoke a reaction from the security authorities and thus cause a little more commotion, than performance inside the assembly hall. But in a society in which there is no readiness for more serious protests to defend democracy, they did the only sensible thing they could do at this moment: they loudly protested the election theft, made it known what they thought about the parliamentary convocation resulting from the stolen elections, and reduced their actions on a symbolic level.
Deputies of the "Serbia against violence" and "NADA" coalitions, 78 of them, announced that this is how every next parliamentary session will look like. They will not take part in the election and formation of parliamentary bodies and will try to obstruct the work of the Assembly in every possible non-violent way.
And if they have already started on this path, they should then also form a "shadow assembly", which they indicated by taking the parliamentary oath in the hall of the Assembly "in front of the citizens of Serbia", and when the time comes for that, a "shadow government", an institution known in political practice.
Progressive and socialist MPs will have their way, pretend that the elections were regular, and that the parliamentary convocation they created is legitimate, they will accuse the opposition of everything and anything and organize counteractions to its actions, while the controlled media will do their thing. Everything seen before.
The opposition, committed to the policy of fighting bare legal and media violence with non-violent methods, can only hope that some other wind will start blowing from Brussels and Washington. Whether that hope is realistic will be seen in two days, when the European Parliament should vote Resolution about the Serbian elections - the degree of its severity will be a hint as to whether there could eventually be a change in the policy of the "Western partners" towards Aleksandar Vučić, who for the sake of power is destroying what is left of the rule of law and parliamentary democracy in Serbia, while slowly, but murderously, completes the independence of Kosovo.
Unless there is a tangible change in the attitude of the "Western foreign factor" - the executive power of the EU and the USA - towards making a mockery of democracy in a country that has the status of a candidate for membership in the European Union, the opposition parties should remember that it is not very flattering to be someone who always in the same way it tries to change the same things with the same result.
Because the principle of Vučić's rule, the manipulation of electoral processes, the abuse of the Assembly, the control of the media, the police and the judiciary has been going on for almost twelve years.
At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vučić's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
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At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vučić's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
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