Although the Scientific and Teaching Council of the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad voted to start classes, the majority of students voted against that proposal. At the same moment, the tabloids turned the tables - instead of acknowledging the majority will of the students, accusations and threats of criminal charges followed.
"Faculty of Law in Novi Sad "starts working".
This was one of the many headlines published on April 17 on pro-regime portals. As the media wrote at the time, the Scientific and Teaching Council of this faculty made a decision on organizing classes and adopted a plan to make up for missed activities.
At the same session of the Council, as stated in the announcement of the Faculty of Law, a decision was made to allow all students of this faculty to express their views on the adopted compensation plan.
"Taking into account the extraordinary circumstances, which occurred due to the blockade of the Faculty building and respecting the equal rights of all students guaranteed by the Constitution and the law, the statement of students will be organized through the Student Service through which the Faculty regularly communicates with its students and to which each student has access through a personalized account, based on a username and password, with all the technical protection measures that exist on this service," the faculty announced, with an additional guarantee:
"This system prevents any abuse of declarations."
However, instead of the student survey serving as a tailwind for the Law School's decision to begin compensation and confirming the authorities' narrative that "the minority bullies the majority" - a cold shower followed.
Out of a total of 3.316 students who had the right to vote, 977 voted for the start of classes, while 1.245 students were against, announced students in the blockade of the Faculty of Law, along with a photo of the voting results on the Student Service.
Suddenly - "irregularities"
As the majority of students declared that they were against tuition reimbursement, new tabloid headlines followed - this time, all assurances from the Faculty of Law that abuse of the survey was "impossible" fell into the water.
Instead, the tabloids "unofficially learn" that there is a suspicion that the "grabbers" and "blockades" threatened the regularity of the vote. As the "NS Live" portal writes, such irregularities were observed during the voting that the Special Prosecutor's Office for the fight against high-tech crime should be involved in the whole case. If the state authorities do not react, "students who want to study will be forced to file criminal charges against persons whom they reasonably suspect have violated the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Serbia and denied their right to education," the tabloids state.
Who are the students who will file criminal charges, as well as against whom they will be filed - is still unknown.
What actually happened at the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad? Are the voting results legitimate? Will the Faculty of Law, despite the results, still start classes?
"Vreme" talked about it with one of the students of this faculty, knowledgeable about current events.
"What is disputed in all of this? What is disputed is that they lost," this student, whose name is known to the editors, told "Vreme".
What happened
First of all, when information about a possible survey of students appeared, the plenary session of the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad made a decision to boycott this type of statement. As a student of this faculty explained to "Vreme", there were several reasons for such a decision - first of all, the students in the blockade believed that only the plenum could make decisions on the eventual termination of the blockade.
In addition, there was a fear among the students that the voting could be irregular, given the fact that no definitive data on the number of students of this faculty could be found, but different numbers were bid in different places.
"Despite this, they decided to conduct the survey, despite our warnings. The faculty organized the vote itself, we did not participate in the entire process. Furthermore, we called for a boycott of the vote all the time, while the faculty sent SMS messages to the students to remind them to declare themselves about the start of classes," says the "Vremena" interlocutor.
Voting results were available to anyone who had access to Student Services, and voting data was regularly updated. Although two hours before the end of the voting, the students who were in favor of teaching were in the lead, the turnaround happened, almost, during the stoppage time.
Voting closed on April 25 at 23.59:1.245 p.m., and two hours before that, the votes of several hundred students who were against tuition reimbursement began to come in, turning the result into a final 977 to XNUMX.
"The Faculty of Law in Novi Sad has accreditation for conducting online classes. Many students were afraid that a positive outcome of the survey could mean online classes and the end of the blockade, which is why they decided to vote at the last minute. Officially, the position of the plenum of our faculty did not change until the end - and that is a boycott," says a student of the Faculty of Law.
The faculty does not advertise.
The interlocutor of "Vremen" does not see anything wrong in this - all students who voted did so in a timely manner, through their personal accounts on the Student Service.
"The tabloids write that the 'blockers' physically controlled the IT infrastructure by the blockers, which is completely untrue. I repeat, the entire voting process was organized by the faculty itself," says this student.
However, in the wording of the survey itself, it is not stated whether it is binding for the faculty administration or whether it is a simple survey of the mood among students.
"That leaves room for the faculty to turn a deaf ear to the majority of students," concludes our interlocutor.
Although the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad has not yet announced the results of the voting, the tabloids have already decided - while the winner was known, the voting was clear. When the students decided otherwise, it suddenly became moot. And maybe, as a punishment, some criminal charges will be filed.
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