"Politicians in power have shown complete insensitivity many times," psychologist Žarko Trebješanin tells "Vreme". The hunger strikes of Dijana Hrka and Milomir Jaćimović do not affect them at all
Hunger strikes Diana Hrka i Milomir Jaćimović they cannot have any effect on those to whom their requests are addressed. People in power would do something about it, only if they judged that it threatened their position, a psychologist told "Vreme" Žarko Trebješanin.
On Monday, the eighth day of the hunger strike in protest against confiscated buses and fines, Jaćimović fell ill while sitting in front of Banovina in Novi Sad.
One bus was returned to him, but he says that he will not move the vehicle until all the buses are returned to him and the fines are cancelled. After the intervention of the Emergency Service, Jaćimović's state of health is stable. He remained alone in the tent, and the doctors advised him to rest.
As an act of support, the deputy and president of the Democratic Party Srdjan Milivojevic he handcuffed himself to Jaćimović's bus, which the police want to tow away "because it is illegally parked".
"The only way to prevent further mistreatment of Milomir Jaćimović was to handcuff myself to his bus with police handcuffs as a sign of protest. If freedom and justice have been arrested in this country, it's time to show the advanced occupiers how shackles easily become the wings of freedom in Serbia," said Milivojević on the X social network.
Alleged concern
"Representatives of the government, as people, you know hunger strikes absolutely none of their business or interest. They are not interested in these individuals and do not get excited about it at all. On the contrary, if they knew that these strikes would just pass, they wouldn't even look back at them," says Trebješanin.
He adds that representatives authorities, only when they notice that the hunger strikes are causing some emotions in public, appearing with "an apparently humane attitude and concern, which are of course completely false."
"This does not apply to all politicians, and I do not think that all politicians are like that by nature, but the politicians who are currently in power in Serbia have shown complete insensitivity so many times. Nothing touched them, not even when people complained about the announcements of mining of lithium, or because pollution in Bor and dying from cancer," Trebješanin recalls.
He states that the politicians in power only really do something when the public is upset and large demonstrations take place.
"This is the best proof that they are absolutely not interested in the fate of people, but they are only interested in their personal fate, i.e. whether it will threaten their power. They know very well what are the harmful consequences of their corruption and fraud, but they still do it and no improvement is noticed," concludes Trebješanin.
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