Students and dissatisfied citizens are protesting in front of the Assembly of Vojvodina. And inside the building it's quite stormy
Today (April 17), students in the blockade presented three important figures on large eggs that they brought during the blockade in front of the Assembly of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, where the session is being held.
"The first will be Maja Gojković. She was present at the opening of the railway station and is responsible for the death of 16 fellow citizens under the canopy. The second is the president of the Assembly of Vojvodina, Balint Juhas. He ordered the security to expel the journalists from the session. And of course, as always in solidarity with our colleagues, the third person on the egg is the director of RTS, Dragan Bujošević," the student told 021.
There is also a police cordon in front of the Assembly of Vojvodina, and the opposition displayed messages with the inscription "You will all be held accountable" during the session. The vice-president of the Assembly issued a warning to all those holding the banners, and the member of parliament from the ruling coalition told them to hold the messages "like some terrorists". The opposition said that they will lower the curtains when the unknown people who gathered there leave the hall.
What is the plan?
The members of the opposition in the Assembly of Vojvodina will try to speak about freedom in the "police state" of Serbia at the session of the provincial parliament, and if they are prevented from doing so, as was hinted at the collegium, they will leave the session and continue the fight in another way.
Radomir Jovović, MP of the Movement of Free Citizens, said that it was proposed at the collegium that the representatives of the students protesting in front of the parliament building should also address the representatives of the provincial parliament, but this was rejected. Also, the proposal of the opposition to have the free media attend the session was rejected, as well as the initiative to discuss essentially the only important point - "freedom in the police state of the Serbian Progressive Party".
"We were told that there will be no discussion about political prisoners. We will attend the session and try to discuss freedom, if that is not possible - we will argue differently," said Jovović, recalling the six activists in detention and the six who are in exile due to the threat of arrest, while, on the other hand, the people who organized the beatings and beat the students are still at large.
The members of the opposition said that they reject any idea that the opposition or the students are overthrowing the state, stating that it is precisely the officials of the Serbian Progressive Party who are doing it, which is why they appeal to the European institutions to "forbid those whose hands are bloody" from leaving the country.
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