More than six months have passed since the beginning student rebellion and protest who changed the social and political scene in Serbia.
In recent weeks, since the students announced a request requesting the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections, they argue about who could be on their election list, and professors and those who support students are targeted in the pro-regime media.
Apart from the media, this is often done by government representatives on social networks.
The names of the rector of the University of Belgrade have been circulating in the tabloids for the past few days as those who would "destroy the state". Vladan Djokic, a lawyer Zdenko Tomanovića, To Natasa Kandic, executive director of the Fund for Humanitarian Law in Serbia.
Political scientist Cvijetin Milivojevic tells "Vreme" that such messages are intended for a "cemented" voting body, or one that Aleksandar Vučić thinks is "cemented", and that has a "chicken memory".
"A few years ago, I think Nataša Kandić and Vučić exchanged compliments. When we talk about Rector Đokić, he didn't bother Vučić or his 'Vučićoids', as I call his propaganda newspaper, when he signed his support for Vučić's electoral list in 2008. Vučić forgot that Zdenko Tomanović was a defender of Slobodan Milošević. How did it not bother him then, but now it bothers him when he has his public stance that supports the students' and civil protests?" asks Milivojević.
As he adds, Vučić is now "a great radical purist who is investigating the scandals, forgetting that thanks to those scandals, as he calls them, he came to power and maintained it."
"Don't forget his current closest political environment. There are people who advocate similar politics to Kandic and Tomanovic. This is catch-all a variant in which you have from Russian lovers to natophiles on the same list. "Vučić was the first to introduce into recent Serbian political practice that there is no ideology, that the SNS is not an ideological party, but a party of bare interests," says Milivojević.
Đokić "blockader boss from the shadows"
Until half a year ago, the name of rector Vladan Đokić was known in the academic community, but the public did not know much about him. In recent months, representatives of the government, led by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, have been targeting him and treating him as one of the biggest opponents.
Complaints were filed against him, he was interrogated by the police, and he also leads the academic community in meetings with the Government.
After it was announced that he might be on the student list, a new campaign against him began, first on the social network profiles of government representatives, and then in the pro-government media.
Commenting on such statements by the president of the republic and his close associates, Milivojević says that "Vučić is now in the phase of initial accumulation of political capital."
The interlocutor of "Vremena" believes that those messages are intended for those who "deliberately do not include their brains, that is why Vučić is here to think on their behalf".
"I expect that this will continue even more fiercely, that all people who agree to be on the student list will be treated in a similar way, regardless of the fact that they were very moderate in their statements. They were not even overly critical of Vučić's autocracy and plutarchy, but were too mild for my taste," says Milivojević.
Other "brains of the operation"
Nataša Kandić was also on the tabloid list of supporters of the blockades, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić declared that she is "the main man and protagonist of the student blockade list and Rector Đokić".
Vučić also stated that from the beginning her support was "main, crucial and of essential importance for the support that the institutions of the European Union provided to the blockaders".
Lawyer Zdenko Tomanović is, as Informer writes, "the mastermind of the blockade operation throughout Serbia."
During his career, the Informer reminded, among other things, he represented Slobodan Milošević, Miroslav Mišković, Darko Šarić, Sreten Jocić, Milan Bek, and as the tabloid writes, he was involved in the planned blockade of the Nikola Tesla Thermal Power Plant in Obrenovac.
About Djokic's candidacy
Recently, the President of the Assembly of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, published a document on X (X) about the fact that Djokić will be on the student list, and the President of Serbia publicly questioned such a potential rector's role.
Vučić asked why the competent prosecutor's office did not react to the information that the rector had signed his consent to be on the electoral list.
In Informer, Đokić is called a "blockading boss from the shadows who is ready to do anything for the sake of an armchair".
With such announcements, the media, Milivojević explains, violate several media laws.
"You can look at it from two aspects - what is acceptable in the media and what is not acceptable in the media. It is a classic kind of passing through warm rabbit. "Zero argumentation, and at the same time an excess of insults, slander, and targeting at the maximum", explains Milivojević.
The rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, announced that, after highlighting the student's demand for the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections, a possible invitation to be on their list would be seen as a gesture of trust and an honor.
Milivojević believes that publishing some names that could be found on the student list was not the wisest move.
"We should have waited. Until the elections are called there is no need to open tickets. The only good thing is that those who survive this warm rabbit really strong people", believes Milivojević.
Vučić again about pensions and salaries
While arguing about the new parliamentary elections, Serbian President Vučić organizes assemblies of the newly formed movement around the country, and in media appearances, he uses every opportunity to blame the blockades for the worse economic situation in the country.
Blaming the "blockaders", as he calls them, for the economic decline, he recently referred to the fact that despite everything, salaries and pensions will increase by the end of the year.
"I was very worried about pensions and what will await the pensioners after all that the blockaders did, structurally and fundamentally destroying our country. So, I believe that the pensioners will be very satisfied, I believe that before the end of the year they will receive a significant, significant increase," Vučić told Pink.
Does this mean that there will still be elections, so he is already starting a campaign to attract the attention of voters, especially pensioners who have always been President Vučić's favorite target group?
"I wouldn't make a direct connection with that. The fact is that he cannot run away from the elections. After all, if there were no extraordinary parliamentary elections, there would be regular ones in two years. It is very close. He talks about salaries and pensions before every election. To be specific, he is governed solely by ratings. There is no ideology. Those who consider him a Serbian chauvinist, a great radical, are mistaken. He is a pragmatic character, a prisoner of ratings. It is sacred to him," he concludes. Milivojevic.
