Photo: Vladimir Šporčić/TanjugAnd everything was good and beautiful during the visit of Aleksandar Vučić in Priboj, a nice spa, a nice SPA center, beautiful nature, successful ladies who make sweaters, so everything was ideal until the moment when the journalist Pinka decided to bring the President back to reality and remind him to the enemies who are lurking and who want to destroy all that beauty and progress - to me, among others
Yesterday, I looked at what TV Pink has on the program at nine in the morning, when as a rule they broadcast the main topic for that day, that is, when they inform the citizens of Serbia about what they should think that day. And, look at the surprise, on the screen a group of people around the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, it says at the top of the screen Priboj, live.
A day later, on Tuesday morning, RTS will also report that "President Vučić opened a SPA center in Priboj", as if, God forbid, it was his and not some local entrepreneur's. Basically, yesterday, Vučić had on his PR plan to show Serbia something beautiful, to "advertise" something in Serbia a little (which, by the way, he has been doing for a long time) and, in general, to send a message on the last day of July that everything is beautiful, that everything is going well and how even the most remote places in Serbia are developing nicely and becoming great places to live.
When I saw Priboj, I thought that Vučić finally brought Sisa (Finnish company for the production of trucks) to FAP, but he opted for his old love tourism, because basically he is a man of comfortable life and enjoyment, not fat and heavy machine elements.
Well, he didn't bring Sisa, but he came to visit the overflow pools in the SPA center in Pribojska Banja. I admit that I like to watch his performances, his pretended spontaneity that often leads him to wave, and there is no one where his "waving" is directed, as we saw yesterday, so the whole content gets an entertaining note. Yesterday, however, he did not harass the Acting Director of Roads of Serbia Drobnjak, who normally serves to report to him at similar events.
Who is lurking there?
And everything was good and beautiful, beautiful facilities, beautiful nature, beautiful announcements (there will be a gondola from Tornik on Zlatibor to the very overflowing pools in Pribojska banja, which is in charge of the most famous Serbian gondolier Milan Stamatović, the archduke from Čajetina), they were also successful ladies who make sweaters that ministers buy and whose products Vučić planned for his daughter, so everything was ideal until the moment when the journalist Pinka (I think she was Mara Dragović, if I'm wrong, I apologize) decided to bring the President back to reality and remind him of the enemies who are lurking and who want to destroy all that beauty and progress.
In turn, she mentioned the media from Bosnia, the daily newspaper "Nova" and - me.
It goes without saying that Vučić, who always stands with both feet on the ground and cannot be fooled and blinded by the charms of a comfortable life, readily welcomed these surprising questions from the TV Pink reporter. That station likes to publish all the good things, stories about successes, and I was surprised why - at the moment when Vučić relaxed, seduced by local successes and announcements of gondolas and kilometers of roads, semi-roads and highways - he was asked about these ugly things.
I got a little excited, but I wasn't surprised because they have been asking Vučić about what I write and say for a long time, since 2014 when we published the story about the contracts with Etihad. Of course, we never got into a situation where it should be the way it should be: that I, as a journalist, ask Vučić about things for which he is responsible, and not that he comments on what I write and say.
There are no such phenomena in the decent world, and I really don't have all the data on how dictators Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Noriega, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Un and similar types like Putin or Orban treated the media.
I am not alone in this, there are several other colleagues whose work and work Vučić perseveres with, without ever finding the courage to be with them what he should be: a public servant who currently holds an important state position that obliges him to be a representative of all citizens, including those who annoy him while he builds, opens and announces.
And here, I invite him once again to start behaving decently and in accordance with home upbringing and laws, to allow himself to be brave in the last four years of his public ministry and to answer the questions of those journalists he doesn't like, without showed that he is right and that he is normal, and that a few of us are haters who hate him and everything Serbian.
I'm rooting for him to go in that direction. He still has a little public service left and it is not in our interest to remember him as... Milošević, Milutinović... Here, let's remember him as Toma Nikolić. As the one over whose "hump" he rose to power in Serbia.
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