There are no elections yet, and it is not known when they will be. Despite this, it seems certain that the students will form their own list, without special cooperation with the opposition. They mostly keep it a secret.
How does it look like list formation? He talks about it for "Vreme". Jelena Kleut, professor of communication studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad.
"They are very involved in this matter. They have set criteria that imply not only a departure from the government but also from the opposition. They fear that opposition officials could reduce their chances in the elections," Kleut tells the new issue of "Vremena", which is on newsstands from Thursday (September 4).
He explains that students choose people who can present parliamentary activities, but who also represent important social symbols.
They understand why they are calculating when the list will be published.
"All this will someday be studied in textbooks of political science literature - how plenum structures diffusely, through many faculties and universities, form an electoral list through iterative processes: elections, checks, vetting," she says.
As "Vreme" previously wrote the main document according to which the political articulation of students in the blockade takes place is the Directive, which describes the way of forming the list as well as the way of running for elections. "Each candidate is selected according to the positive and negative criteria defined in the Directive document itself."
And, after the preliminary list is drawn up, a vetting process follows, during which plenums can submit evidence and arguments for excluding certain candidates from the list if they do not respect the criteria or if it is believed that for any other reason they would violate the integrity of the list and the ideals of the student struggle.
As far as the opposition is concerned, Kleut points out, the students' logic is clear: "They don't want to choose between different opposition options, because that is an introduction to dissensions of various kinds."
Read the entire interview in the new issue of "Vremena", which is on newsstands from Thursday (September 4) or subscribe to the digital edition
