President of the country
Vucic told Reuters: He would like not to be involved in politics - but he has to
Aleksandar Vučić spoke to Reuters about Serbia's European path, the gas that the country procures from Russia, but also about its own future.
Overview of the week
Progressive Transitional Government
Aleksandar Vučić claims that he will never agree to the transitional cabinet. He should be trusted, but conditionally. Why? Because he will agree to anything as soon as he is forced to. And it will be
Internal politics
Extraordinary elections: Lifeline or doom for SNS?
It is not certain that the government of Aleksandar Vučić will run to extraordinary elections this year, and even less that the opposition would agree to it. But if that happens, what might it look like?
Germany
The Bundestag votes on confidence in the Government on December 16
The storm on the German political scene is still not abating. Chancellor Olaf Scholz confirmed that the Bundestag will vote on confidence in the government on December 16. After that, the German parties need to agree on some urgent issues
Early elections
The Government of Serbia introduced a temporary state of emergency in the Municipality of Preševo
The local government has not had a majority since July last year, and not a single session of the Municipal Assembly was held for nine months
Analyze
Elections announced in Vojvodina: In the shadow of protests and senseless autonomy
The provincial elections have finally been made official. The pro-European opposition, as in the republican and Belgrade elections, appears united on the Serbia Against Violence list. Which other coalitions will participate and what marks these elections
Personal attitude
Belgrade: Pre-election budget, but they are running away from the election!
The mayor of Belgrade did not resign, nor did he offer it, but that's why he proposed, and the progressive majority adopted, a pre-election, populist budget rebalancing that serves his personal promotion, and in which payments for sectors and services of key importance for citizens' lives were reduced. of Belgrade
Personal attitude
Restlovi, Vulin and Facebook
Only when we dismantle the propaganda machinery of hatred and violence, will we acquire the prerequisites to build a just, safe, democratic and ecologically clean Serbia together with the citizens. Serbia of free media and free people. Serbia of independent prosecution and independent judiciary. Serbia where power is divided, replaced, controlled and limited. A land that belongs to the citizens, not to one man and his "godfathers"
Interview: Dejan Bursać, political analyst
The government is campaigning, the opposition is in a "bubble"
"I believe that divisions irritate voters and that they do not make too many differences between the individual parties of the civil opposition, therefore I think that one column is certainly more logical, provided that there are no public divisions within it, and that, as we can see, is not certain. All this creates a problem for the public image of the opposition. If you cannot show people that you are able to seriously and competently lead the pre-election coalition, why do you expect them to trust you to lead the country"
Politics
The President of Serbia: Who will get the increase and the money after the announcement of the election
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
Pavle Grbović, president of the Movement of Free Citizens
The survival of society is at stake
"Vučić would like us to enter into negotiations with him, to bid when the elections will be held, but we do not want that. If we went to rallies under the same meteorological conditions, we want to go to the elections under the same conditions. And for that to happen, it is necessary that the requirements are fulfilled, and that a certain amount of time passes in a normal atmosphere, so that we can then compete."
The art of politics when you are not in power
Who, with whom, how and when
The opposition is divided into several columns. This was contributed by the government's strategy, the war in Ukraine, the Franco-German agreement for Kosovo and the traditional inter-party hatreds and disagreements. For now, four or five opposition blocs can be glimpsed. Depending on the local specifics, and that they will have some local groups of citizens with them or against them in the fight for opposition votes.
Comment
Aleksandar Vučić's hit-tweeting: Master of the election
If the Belgrade elections are indeed repeated, it will not be because of any legitimacy or concession to Dragan Đilas, but because of the behind-the-scenes calculations of Aleksandar Vučić, who has proven that he does not care about the legitimacy of anything. By the same logic, it would be better for the opposition parties to prepare just in case for a repeat of the early parliamentary elections held on April 3.