Photo: Tanjug/Rade PrelićBy offering "technical talks" on the organization of elections, is Vučić accepting part of the demands of the protest? Namely, Bata Gašić becomes a minister in resignation, Vulin quietly leaves after them, and it is possible to achieve some transitional solution for REM and televisions with national frequencies. Now the opposition is on the move
O Anna Brnabić in the shortest possible time because it is not possible otherwise. The Prime Minister confirmed for the umpteenth time that all she does is to fulfill the orders of the President of Serbia. Since Vučić has decided that he must resign, she has nothing to think about. After all, like everything else.
After the prime minister's warm-up of the audience, the head of state reached for the microphone and announced that Serbia will be holding elections in the fall. This is how he responded to the opposition and citizens to the demands presented at the anti-violence protests. It is about the continuation of the "declaration" of the people, with the government using all the state's resources and usurping the vast majority of the media, while the opposition is treated like a parolee.
Will the Vučić regime succeed in this intention?
The announced special elections are the first for the progressive party, which they did not create themselves. Actually, they were forced by the deep crisis of society and the state after the tragedies in "Ribnikar" and the surroundings of Mladenovac. Aware that his regime is rapidly losing popularity, Vučić "cut" while he still could, relying on the dependence of people employed in the public sector, the already mobilized party army and media dominance. Public opinion polls certainly show him that there is nothing to hope for in the future.
Nevertheless, the extraordinary elections before the demands of the protest are met will be experienced by their participants as another form of regime violence. That reaction will be known at the gathering on Friday. Vučić himself sees that this can become a big problem. That is why he offers the opposition "technical talks" on the organization of elections. Simplified - a kind of dialogue, that is, the backdoor acceptance of part of the demands from the protest. Namely, Bata Gašić becomes a minister in resignation, Vulin, whose resignation is also demanded by the parties, can leave quietly after the election, and it is possible to achieve some transitional solution for REM and television stations with national frequencies...
Like Vučić, the opposition also knows that there is not enough time to essentially and actually implement the possible agreements. That is why she has a difficult decision to make - since the participants of the protest have so far not shown the will to radicalize, it is unlikely that the opposition parties are ready to leave the parliament again.
At first glance, it seems that Vučić has a zinger. But that's how it looked on the eve of the counter rally on May 26, his biggest political fiasco. Can something similar happen again in extraordinary elections?
Only one thing is certain - Aleksandar Vučić stepped heavily into the campaign. This is proven by the announcement of salary increases in the public sector and pensions. Everything else will depend on how much Serbia has changed in May 2023.
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Aleksandar Vučić announced an increase in salaries in education and healthcare, an increase in pensions, cheaper bread and financial aid for children up to 16 years of age, i.e. their guardians
The President of Serbia said that he will wait for the opposition parties to respond to his call for talks and that the government will not change on the street.
The same intolerance towards the critical attitude, towards the other and the different, which is more than obvious in Vučić's case, is more and more difficult to hide in Brnabić and emerges more and more often. In the same way, the two of them declare themselves about the workers on strike, about the media, about the opposition, about pensions, about poverty, about every statement that they consider negative, only that the Prime Minister controls herself as much as possible.
Anyone who does not get information from "Informer" or "Srpski telegrfa", from TV Pink or Happy, does not know that the victim of Serbian victims is none other than Aleksandar Vučić
