For several days since Friday and the rally "Serbia dreams and dreams come true" in Pancevo, Aleksandar Vučić did not appear on the televisions he controls. And then last night, on Tuesday, May 23, he appeared on RTS, in Dnevnik, to tell us about his departure to Dubona and Malo Orašje, almost three weeks after the massacre in those Šumadija villages.
This, for his rhythm, unnatural pause, did not bring about a change.
"Witness to the truth" took up most of the half-hour program according to the program scheme, a program in which only he can appear as a guest. He came to tell how he visited the families of the victims of the massacre and underlined that he did not want to make a media event out of it.
If there was no need for a media event on the spot, it is not clear why he recounted the details of those meetings to us. It will be that in his team it was estimated that he should still go "to the crime scenes" in order to show his "human side" ("I'm just a man too" policy) and to do it in a discreet way, and yet everyone knows that did that.
In addition to visiting these families and execution sites, Vuči also informed us that he had been to the "Vladislav Ribnikar" school, which was one of the complaints that came from the public in the previous weeks.
Nothing new at all
And indeed, it can be believed that in the hours and days immediately after the tragedy, Vučić did not know what to do, so it was estimated that he "does not go to the people", that he does not appear in front of the school where a great world gathered and paid respect to the victims of " Ribnikaru" and where people left flowers, lit candles, and signed the Book of Mourning.
He felt bad because he was criticized for not showing compassion (empathy in Serbian) to the victims and the families of the victims and called such an attitude towards him "inhuman" because he was criticized for not being there, and if he had been, they would have said that he was.
Everything he did and said sent the same message: in the most difficult crisis for Serbia, its leader had no idea how to behave and what to do, so he stuck to the old "let me continue to be the first news", no matter what to happen. And last night he was in the news because of that and he used the time to point out his political opponents, to present himself as a victim, to talk twenty days after two massacres that only someone can kill him, but that he will not change anything in his policy.
Those who expected something else were disappointed, and those who follow his career did not see anything new.
Meeting of the President of the Republic
He also said again that he was retiring from the party and that he called a rally on Friday in Belgrade to present the "plan for Serbia" to the people on the square, and not in the institutions.
The people who are being forced into buses all over Serbia, the trustees of SNS, are certainly not alive to hear the plan of the man who has been telling them for 11 years that what he is doing is the best thing that Serbia has had in history.
He cannot do otherwise: he sits at the head of Serbia, and he organizes protests against the opposition, which are truly unheard of in recent history (except for the counter-rally of Milošević and the SPS in the late fall of 1996).
Instead of gathering, he counts, instead of appeasing, he mobilizes. The answer will reach him already on Saturday.
"It's too late for your tears," said Marinika Tepić in the Assembly on Tuesday, and that's probably the best worded message. From that message, a policy should be formulated that will, despite everything, push Serbia in a better direction.
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