Photo: Marko Dragoslavić/FoNetThe blockade of the international highway E-75 has ended. On Saturday, a protest walk to Pink TV was announced. The "Serbia against violence" protest is intensifying. Opposition leaders came out of the shadow of citizens
Judging by the highway blockade on Friday, the "Serbia against violence" protest is not abating, but heating up. This is not about the number of people who participated in the blockade, but about the development of a peaceful civil protest into civil disobedience. And all over Serbia. As Nebojša Zelenović said: it is necessary to stop everyday life in Serbia in order to stop violence.
Because what the participants and silent or loud sympathizers of the civil rebellion against the progressive government recognize as violence, for Aleksandar Vučić is the only possible way of political action, because he can't do otherwise, so he can't think of anything to change, that is, to give in to demands demonstrators.
The opposition leaders, who have so far discreetly and modestly organized the protests, did the only thing they could do at this summer time to revive them: they intensified the demonstrations with two actions in two days. After blocking the highway with vehicles on Friday, there will be a march on Pink TV on Saturday in the "regular" time slot of the ninth protest against violence.
The leaders of the political parties correctly recognized that the time had come to step out of the shadow of the citizens, to whom they had left the street scene until now, and take the initiative and responsibility. Politicians were in the foreground on Friday for the first time, they took upon themselves the risk of success or failure of this action.
Although the opposition leaders avoid using the term "radicalization of the protest", it was radicalization: a demonstration exercise so that the whole of Serbia could stop. Just as the invitation to go to TV Pink is a radicalization of the previous peaceful, non-violent walks, because the protest column will start in the heart of this system, against which tens of thousands of citizens are protesting on the street, and which, according to the expression of public opinion, the Line supports every other citizen of Serbia.
This type of civil disobedience, which aims to block the country, the government representatives cannot tolerate for long, even though during the blockade of the E-75 road, a video of Vučić and Siniša Malog carelessly driving along their latest historic achievement was circulating on pro-regime media and social networks. , part of the ring road around Belgrade that should bear the name of Milutin Mrkonjić. No matter how the media filters of information and pink people distort what is really happening, inaction begins to be interpreted not as wisdom, but as weakness of the government, both inside and outside the country.
The opposition leaders expressed their belief that there is no going back from here, that they are ready to go all the way in order to fulfill the demands of the protest. Vučić and his team not only said, but also proved by their actions that they are not ready to make concessions.
Whether these protests will at some point lead to the phase of direct measurement of the forces of opponents and supporters of Aleksandar Vučić, depends on whether citizens dissatisfied with the progressive government will now stand behind the opposition leaders after all the protest marches.
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