Photo: Marija JankovićShe is not a member of any political party. She is a citizen who actively participates in the social and political life of Serbia. He sees a brighter future in "secular humanism". He sees the attacks on the media as proof that the government has "killed politics" in Serbia. Biljana Stojković will be a presidential candidate in front of the green-left coalition "Moramo"
Biljana Stojković she was born in 1972 in Belgrade. She graduated from the Zemun High School, and graduated from the Faculty of Biology in Belgrade. She says that in the late 1990s she turned down an offer to complete her doctoral studies in Switzerland, at the University of Basel. "My relocation was planned for the year 2000." All the events during that year, the smell of the conquest of freedom and society, but also the events on a private level, made me decide to reject the offer".
She received her doctorate at the Faculty of Biology, where she is a full professor at the Department of Genetics and Evolution. The official biography states that she is the author of numerous publications in international journals in the field of evolutionary biology, to which she also dedicated two books. Biljana Stojković was elected as a member of the Council of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. On the international level, he also closely cooperates with the Swedish University in Uppsala.
She describes herself as "not a political scientist or a sociologist", but a "citizen who actively participates in the socio-political life of this gloomy country of ours". Starting in 1992, she was a participant in various protests against the regime of Slobodan Milošević. At that time, as she says, she did not know any protest leader and belonged to that part of "the unsuspecting majority who walked in protest columns, ran away from the police, supported every rebellion and waited for change."
She fled to biology at the moment when, after the October 2007th changes, "democratic potential was slowly crowned" and Serbia became "an apathetic society that was falling apart again" without any plan or goal. Her awakening and the need to actively return to "system changes" are linked to the year XNUMX and the invitation of journalist Svetlana Lukić to participate in the Peščanik radio show. Since then, he regularly writes articles on various social issues for the Peščanika website.
He believes that the old circumstances from the nineties have returned "together with the old radical players of 2012". "I believe that the radicals, led by the autocratic Vučić, would not have happened to us if we had been ready for massive civil demonstrations during the previous decade."
Biljana Stojković is not a member of any political party. As she previously stated, she sees her actions exclusively "through civil activism and civil association". He believes that after the destruction of this "terrible system" the existence of "alternative politics" is necessary.
She was among those activists who in 2019, on the eve of March XNUMX, visited the monuments to Nikola Tesla, Josif Pančić, Dositej Obradović... hung up aprons with the words "Science is female", "Abortion is a woman's right", "I support women's strike". Although the goal of the action was to use aprons, as symbols of women's unpaid work, to point out the need to improve the position of women in Serbian society, some saw this action as an insult and desecration of the monuments of famous great men.
She is a member of the Assembly of Free Serbia (SsS), which gathers civil and political actors in the fight against the ruling regime, and aims to "articulate civil discontent". SsS has been in a turbulent phase of its existence since the beginning of the year, after the conflict with part of the opposition and the outflow of membership. An internal letter addressed to the members, in which the reasons for canceling support for the United Opposition of Serbia, gathered around the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP), has surfaced. Mutual accusations rained down, especially regarding "mandate and money".
"SsS is absolutely not an organization that will do anything for money. Until now, we have functioned without money, and we will continue to do so," said Stojković at the time. He sees the role of SsS through the influence "on political events in the direction of democracy, respect for human rights and everything that leads to true civilizational values."
He worries that the opposition parties "in general have not moved far from the pernicious opinion that citizens are objects", and that there must be a sign of equality between the terms party and politics. He sees religion and mysticism of all kinds as "the greatest obstacles to the development of intelligence, criticism of authority, and a humane and free society."
For her, a brighter future comes with "secular humanism", in which the "popularization of science, the fight against clericalization, xenophobia and nationalism" should play a particularly important role. He sees the attacks on the media as proof that the government in Serbia has no decency and that it has "killed politics" in Serbia.
Although they previously stated that it is best for the opposition to have a joint presidential candidate, for the "Moramo" coalition, Zdravko Ponoš is a "conservative candidate who is very close to right-wing ideas." That is why they believe that it is important that there is "another candidate who represents ideas close to green and left-wing policies." Biljana Stojković will be a candidate for the left-green coalition "Moramo". Her candidacy will be an attempt from the left to enter the second round of the presidential elections.
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