Photo: APAbout 2.000 names of important figures who supported the electoral list "Aleksandar Vučić - Serbia must not stand still" were included in the list of "decent and cultured people" who support the Serbian Progressive Party. Aleksandar Vučić's counter-proclamation was part of a series of countermeasures that have been thrown at every move of the opposition for years.
As of this morning, it is finally known who will be in the long-announced book of "decent and cultured people". About 2.000 names of important figures who supported the electoral list "Aleksandar Vučić - Serbia must not stand still" were on this list.
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, thanked the people who engaged and supported the Serbian Progressive Party on TV Pink this morning, and he especially mentioned the basketball player Nikola Jokić and his brothers, Janko Tipsarević, Mirko Vasiljević, Darko Tanasković.
"Those names mean something, I know that people are bored, but these are people who helped, saved people's lives," said Vučić and added that this means that there is a large number of people who are not afraid of harassment and harangue.
Countermeasures
During each election process, the Serbian Progressive Party responded readily, though not very creatively, to every move by the opposition.
"For years now, they have had the manner of responding to every move by the opposition with a countermeasure, we only remember their responses to broadcasts criticizing the government, but also the bizarre case of a counter-hunger strike due to the violence of the opposition," said Marko Dražić, author of Njuz Net and screenwriter of 24 minutes with Zoran Kesić for "Time".
These include rallies and counter-rallies, accusations and counter-accusations, "Impression of the Week" and "Hit Tweet"...
Countermeasures could not remain in the sphere of political struggle, so unfortunately we witnessed even more bizarre countermeasures such as commemoration of Aleksandar Šapić which he organized in the Old Palace, which houses the Assembly of the City of Belgrade. He laid a wreath there.
How is that written by Philip Schwarm: "Beograd can hardly remember a more shameless and painful gesture than this."
Politeness vs. polite
ProGlas initiative it was presented to the Serbian public on November 7 and it has been signed by almost 172.000 citizens, including numerous public figures.
Vučić, on the other hand, boasts of the increasing support of academics, of whom ten are now members of SANU.
The new book of support acts as another step towards creating a division between "decent and cultured", which SNS has been successfully creating since 2017, when 100 public figures asked Saša Janković to run for president, and Aleksandar Vučič had to respond - with 650 personalities who are on his side.
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At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vučić's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
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"The spaces where ProGlas holds forums are quite small because the local authorities are sabotaging them in getting bigger halls, so even the progressives who want to interrupt them barely manage to get in and have to fight their way out of the door, which seems quite miserable, concludes Marko Dražić for "Vremena" portal
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