More than seven months ago, students requested the announcement of part-time workers parliamentary elections and thus he is the president of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić finally became competent for one protest request.
However, since then, regime representatives have been scrambling to explain why this is not the right time, while claiming that they would surely win. Vučić mentions from time to time elections, announcing them for the spring months or for December 2026.
Why isn't he in a hurry? "Vreme" writes about this in the new issue, which is on newsstands on Thursday (December 11).
Time doesn't work for the regime.
According to the words Dejan Bursać from the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, Vučić could call the elections for the following year and he himself is aware that it is difficult to govern the country.
Not only because protest, which have physically died a little, but because the culture of resistance has taken hold, there are more and more economic misfortunes, and there is also external pressure to solve the crisis institutionally - through elections.
"There is also an assessment." Social Media that in the coming year, citizens' desire to fight will decrease," says Bursać. But he adds that all research shows the opposite - neither time nor mood work for the regime.
First Expo…
Dušan Spasojević, a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, shares the impression of the vagueness of Vučić's announcements: "No one knows when the elections will be held, and I have the impression that even Aleksandar Vučić doesn't."
Spasojević believes that Vučić's tactic is to postpone the elections as much as possible, hoping that the government can cause as many divisions as possible in the student and opposition bloc.
"Even if none of that happens, Vučić is still in power and implementing his program, starting from Expa and everything else."
Read the entire article by Jelena Jorgacevic in the new issue of "Vremena" from Thursday (December 11). Or, better yet, subscribe now.
