For Vučić, the Resolution of the European Parliament on the Serbian elections is the slap in the face that he feared. He knows very well how those, who from the "stability factor" in the eyes of the so-called of the West become a "disruptive factor"
Vladimir Bilčik can relativize as much as he wants, Ana Brnabić can talk about "radio Mileva", and Aleksandar Vučić can whistle in the dark that the "anti-Serbian" European Parliament is not interested in him - Resolution on the Serbian elections of the supreme legislative body of the European Union, which is also the control body European Commission is the first serious diplomatic victory of the Serbian opposition.
This Resolution labels Vučić an autocrat who is involved in the theft of elections, expresses serious doubts that he is not the inviolable and beloved leader of the people, as he pretends to be, and requests the EU executive to urgently form an expert commission that should investigate all allegations of electoral fraud by the authorities. and from, de facto, the President of Serbia, because only he is asked about everything, to ensure full cooperation with European investigative bodies. Otherwise, Serbia will depend on EU financial aid.
A convincing majority with which the Resolution was voted - 461 voted for, 53 against, 43 abstained - inspires solid hope that the EP's recommendation to the European Commission and member states could be put into practice. The Union, engrossed in its own and the world's problems, can pretend to be dead through any sluggishness, but it is difficult even through well-argued accusations that the core of the democratic value system has been (too) rudely touched - the electoral process. And that in a country that has candidate status and aspirations to join the Union.
For Vučić, this is the kind of slap he was afraid of. He knows very well how those, who from the "stability factor" in the eyes of the so-called of the West become a "disruptive factor", from Slobodn Milošević to Nikola Gruevski. An experienced politician will try to amortize the pressure he is currently exposed to and convince "Western partners" that he is more useful than harmful to them (Kosovo, Milorad Dodik, Russia).
An international commission that investigates fraudulent election activities in Serbia would be a great insult to him (Do you not believe me, the most honest one, that these were the cleanest elections, but those thieves of Djilas!?). If he is forced to invite her (vampires do not come to the house uninvited), he will try to drown them in the vilayets of state authorities.
And the leaders of "Serbia against violence" had better not rest on their laurels now. On the external level, they achieved good success, but on the internal socio-political level, everything stopped. While the progressives moved from one election campaign to another, the opposition once again forgot about the work on the ground without which, in the conditions of controlled media and solid post-election depression among supporters of functional democracy among citizens, there is nothing. Television appearances and obstruction of the Assembly are not enough.
Despite all the cynics, it should be noted that the hunger strike of Marinika Tepić contributed to a good extent to the turning of turkeys in distant Strasbourg: extreme moves can arouse the interest of the uninterested. And in Brussels.
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
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
Vučić pardoned the batterers and Dijana Hrkalović. The election winners should abolish the sultan's power that allows one man to run afoul of the entire judicial system
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Things are unfolding at an astonishing speed, as astonishing as the speed with which Vucic conceded a convincing defeat. Impatience is understandable, but misplaced
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
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
Vučić pardoned the batterers and Dijana Hrkalović. The election winners should abolish the sultan's power that allows one man to run afoul of the entire judicial system
Interview: Branko Stamenković, public prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office
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