Photo: Strahinja Aćimović/TanjugHalf in advance, half after the job is done. Aleksandar Vučić's announcement that young people will receive another 100 euros at the beginning of June at the latest sounds like that. Elections are scheduled for April 3
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said on Monday in the program "Ćirilica" on TV Happy that in May, at the latest at the beginning of June this year, all young people in Serbia will receive another 100 euros each, for which the state will allocate 102 million euros.
The president did not specify whether the youth will receive this money only if his Serbian Progressive Party remains in power. Judging by past experiences, the new government will not be even close to being formed by then. Parliamentary, presidential and Belgrade elections will be held on April 3.
Vučić also said that the payment of aid to young people is "one way for the state to show care for them", but also to point out that when the state gives, they must follow certain procedures, "to learn this and at the same time acquire greater responsibility and seriousness ". Therefore, they will receive help for educational reasons.
"Time" is earlier in the text "Election Christmas of Bata" wrote that since the beginning of the pandemic, state distribution of money, "buying citizens' votes with citizens' money" has become a practice, and it was always announced by Vučić. Those first 100 euros of aid from the spring of 2020 cost the state about 620 million euros. Help was received by those who needed much more than 100 euros and those for whom that 100 euros meant nothing. The big question is whether it reached the most vulnerable - those who do not have an identity card, residence, electricity, internet, telephone and could not register.
The entire economic profession, led by the Fiscal Council, condemned the "helicopter money" at the time as an unnecessary waste of money that Serbia does not have, but is already in debt. This year, Serbia will borrow about 890 million euros from the International Monetary Fund alone.
Two years later, no one asks, or tries to explain, whether these new 100 euros (for citizens aged 16 to 30) and 20.000 dinars for pensioners have any economic or social basis.
So far, the mentioned 620 million euros have been distributed in the spring of 2020; about 500 million at 30+30+20 euros to all citizens during 2021; about 35 million euros to 60 euros for the unemployed in June 2021; about 85 million on an additional 50 euros for pensioners in September 2021, which is more than 1,2 billion euros, not including about 25 million euros spent on 3000 dinars rewards for vaccinated citizens.
When you add about 285 million to that for new aid to pensioners of 20.000 dinars each and about 105 million euros for young people, and we are already over a billion and a half euros given, wouldn't the citizens vote correctly in the next elections.
This calculation does not include these new 100 euros for young people, because young people can be ungrateful and forgetful, so they will get that money only after the work is done, if everything goes well in the SNS elections.
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