Pred elections on October 25th, it seems that the camps have long been divided and that the campaign is being conducted to win over some of the "undecideds". Or possibly intimidated by someone who decided to vote against the government.
Rushing to the elections is the headline topic of the new issue of "Vremena", which is on newsstands from this Thursday (September 10).
"The head of the state and the entire Ćaciland has been chasing numbers for more than a year and a half," writes Filip Švarm in the editorial. "It doesn't seem like he's reached them. That's why he's now leaning on with all his weight BIA, the police, beaters... Of course - and the unprecedented propaganda terror of the regime media."
The regime's entire arsenal
This harnessing of all resources is dealt with by Igor Božić in his analysis for "Vreme". Vučić's advantage is the country that works for his campaign, he writes.
"His weakness is that for the first time he has to use almost everything that the country has and long before the elections are called. Tents, podcasts, state money, letters to pensioners, endless televised addresses, village tours, police cordons and talk of foreign services are not signs of confidence. They are the arsenal of a government that knows the outcome is no longer certain in advance."
Are we in for "moderate" violence?
Professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences Dušan Spasojević says that during the campaign Vučić will be satisfied with a "moderate" level of violence as a production of fear. But still not too big incidents that can mobilize the opposing electorate.
"Vučić is walking on a very thin wire," says Spasojević. "It is difficult to understand his campaign only from rational positions."
Read all the comments and analyzes on this topic in the new "Vremen" from Thursday (September 10) or subscribe to the print or digital edition.
