What will the constitutive session of the Assembly look like when 78 out of 250 deputies believe that the extraordinary elections on December 17 were stolen at all levels and that they should therefore be annulled and repeated, and those responsible for "electoral engineering" prosecuted. The session should start at 10 o'clock
Accept parliamentary mandates, or not accept them? Boycott the constituent session of the National Assembly, or not? Make some kind of performance, try to undermine the swearing-in of deputies and the election of the president of the new parliamentary convocation, or just say what you have to say?
Whatever the "pro-European" MPs of the coalition "Serbia against violence" and the "right-oriented" coalition "Hope for Serbia" do, the Assembly will be constituted today and will continue where it left off when it was dissolved so that extraordinary parliamentary elections could be called. elections: with the abuse of the highest legislative body of the Republic of Serbia for the sake of the party interests of the majority and its leader, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.
The Serbian Parliament has long since turned into a stage for the opposition and the ruling majority, and the opposition MPs participate in that performance because it is the only platform for them to be heard live and on the national television frequency, albeit cut to another RTS program and in the middle of working hours. . If the damage to Vučić and the Serbian Progressive Party were tangible, there should be no doubt that the live broadcast would be canceled.
Obstruction in the nave with a view of Strasbourg
Eight deputies of the Democratic Party will not enter the assembly hall of the "illegitimate" Assembly today. Other deputies from "Serbia against violence" announce "obstructions from the inside", but do not reveal the tickets in advance.
Their goal is that the citizens of Serbia, who until now, due to the control of the media, have not heard that the elections were "stolen".
There were no consultations between the authorities and the parliamentary parties before the first session, "Serbian Progressive Party does not want to reveal what that session will look like and how long it will last," said Jelena Jerinić from the Green-Left Front, MP for N1.
Procedurally, he explains, on the first day the mandates of the deputies who will elect the president, vice president, general secretary of the parliament, as well as working bodies and parliamentary delegations are confirmed.
"According to the Rules of Procedure, according to the Constitution and according to the law, the constituent session should have two parts: one refers to the confirmation of the mandate, and then the discussion on other points begins. Among other things, it will also be about the election of the President of the National Assembly. "I expect that we will receive that proposal literally five minutes before the start," adds Jerinić.
"We want to be there so that we have the opportunity to tell all the elected deputies and citizens in the first place that election theft has been carried out, that local institutions are silent on it or that they are complicit," says the vice-president of the Party of Freedom and Justice, Marinika Tepić.
The opposition has high hopes for the Resolution of the European Parliament on the elections in Serbia, which should be on the agenda in Strasbourg on February 8. They hope that, based on the report of the OSCE election observers, the EP will conclude that the elections on December 17 were stolen and that this will put the wind behind them.
The deadline for the formation of the Government is 90 days from the date of the constitution of the National Assembly. Before the election of the Government, there will be consultations of the President with the heads of parliamentary groups, after which he will decide to whom he will give the mandate for the composition of the Government.
Balance of power
On January 22, the Republic Election Commission of Serbia (REK) adopted a resolution on the allocation of mandates to members of the new convocation of the Serbian Parliament by a majority of votes. 10 voted for the adoption of the decision, and five REC members voted against it.
Previously, on January 12, the commission announced the final results of the parliamentary elections, according to which the mandates were won by representatives of 10 electoral lists, five of which are minority.
List "Aleksandar Vučić - Serbia must not stop" she won 129 mandates. The backbone of this electoral list is the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, whose leader was the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.
The opposition list came second "Serbia against violence" with 65 mandates.
List "Ivica Dacic - Prime Minister of Serbia" led by the Socialist Party of Serbia will have 18 deputies.
Right-wing coalition "Hope for Serbia" will have 13 deputies.
A pro-Russian and right-wing list "We, the voice of the people", won 13 mandates.
Minority list Union of Vojvodina Hungarians has six mandates.
A minority list made up of Bosniaks Justice and Reconciliation Party i Democratic Union of Croats in Vojvodina has two mandates.
The minority list will also have two mandates SDA Sandžak.
Minority List "The political struggle of the Albanians continues - Shaip Kamberi" she won one mandate.
Minority list Russian parties will also have one term.
Before the constitutive session of the new convocation, consultations were held with representatives of all the lists that entered the Assembly. The student movement said in advance that they will not turn those talks into political agreements.
The rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, claims to Danas that he has been monitored for a year and a half and that he suspects that listening devices are in his office at the Rectorate, at the faculty, in his car and at home.
After the election defeat, Vučić is increasingly addressing his supporters via TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, where his posts receive hundreds of thousands of views.
Only the court can determine who caused injuries to whom, said lawyer Edvin S. Prelić, reacting to the claims of the Kreni-promeni movement that Aelksandar Šapić caused serious physical injuries to councilor Tatjana Mićić
The student plan calls for six months of voluntary military service, better conditions for members of the military, investment in equipment and the defense industry, an investigation into early deaths and numerous other changes.
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
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