What did Glišić, Bratina and Vučić manage to say, why it has no legal and political consequences and what kind of effect it causes
Aleksandar Vučić hanging overhead presidential and parliamentary elections. Should he announce them prematurely? Or put them off as long as he can? Does it bring them together or separate them?
He could postpone the elections for deputies until the end of 2027, but the calculation is spoiled by the presidential elections, which must be held in spring at the latest in a year - the president of Serbia's mandate lasts five years, and he was sworn in on May 31, 2022. However, this overlaps with the main state and party project Expo 2027, international exhibition that lasts from May 15 to August 15 of the following year.
And the rebellious part of society will never calm down, and the Serbian Progressive Party will never go green. Although the President of Serbia presented the result of the local elections held on March 29 as 10:0 for the SNS, the analysis of the numbers confirmed the downward trend in the popularity of the party in power.
And the intrusion of the police into the Rectorate of the University of Belgrade caused a counter-effect: instead of tarnishing and humiliating the rector Vladan Djokic, that whole clumsy police action elevated him as the most serious candidate for the presidency or prime ministership.
As the pressure and uncertainty of staying in power grow, the vocabulary of Vučić and his ministers is uncontrollably sharpened to, even for their very high standards, unsuspected unacceptable limits.
First, the Minister for Public Investments, Darko Glišić, stood out, warning parents not to enroll their children in "blockade", i.e., state faculties, lest their children be "returned in coffins" like the unfortunate student from Šabac whose lifeless body was found in front of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
Then the Minister of Information and Telecommunications Boris Bratina managed to say that the students should be aware that the police have the right to beat and kill.
The President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, continued in the same murderous tone, who, during a tour of the works at the Expo, casually ruled that a student at the Faculty of Philosophy was "murdered", that the blockaders had committed "educational genocide" and that they were going to arrest the blockading professors at the Faculty of Political Sciences.
Whatever their goal was, these three statements, which in legal states would be a sufficient reason for the resignation or impeachment of those who uttered them, once again brought to the fore the reasons why a part of society, led by students, rebelled and demanded the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections: the absence of any responsibility for the spoken word and actions and the control of judicial authorities.
It is a celebration that the President of Serbia once again acted as a policeman, prosecutor and judge.
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