Misha Vacic was born in 1985 in Belgrade. About Vacić's upbringing, life and education is known only from his own mouth. In the documentary film "Who is Miša Vacić", which he filmed about himself three years ago, he said that at the age of 16 he moved with his parents to Germany, where he completed high school and high school. Sometimes he presented himself in the media as a law graduate, and on the list for the Belgrade elections in 2014, he stated that he was an economist by profession.
As a "boy in love with history", he discovered his "Spartan temperament" in early childhood. "Every injustice committed against the Serbian people really hurts him", that's why in 2004, after the March pogrom against the Serbs in Kosovo, he returned to Serbia. Already the following year, he became politically engaged as a spokesman for the ultra-right movement "SNP 1389", which was not banned, although it constantly threatened human rights.
During his activism in "SNP 1389", he earned a one-year suspended prison sentence. He was convicted of discrimination against the LGBT population on the eve of the Pride Parade in 2009, preventing officials from performing their duties, and illegal carrying of weapons. In 2008, he participated in the rally "Kosovo is Serbia" when the American embassy was set on fire. He was an essential part of right-wing folklore during numerous manifestations support for convicted war criminals. As he himself said, at one of them he also met Aleksandar Vučić "when he was putting up posters of Bulevar Ratko Mladić, thereby protecting the arrested guys who had done it before him".
He entered the political arena for the first time in the Belgrade elections in 2014 on the list of the citizens' group "Patriotism in Parliament - 1389. Miša Vacić", which did not pass the census.
He became known to the general public when, in 2017, he found himself among the passengers of a train painted with icons that headed from Topcider to Kosovska Mitrovica, where he never arrived. Word soon spread that on that train Vacić was handing out business cards and presenting himself as an advisor to the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija. A guest appearance on N1 television, where he went to explain what he was doing in the government in almost unintelligible Serbian, cost him his job. He was promptly fired, and all his "bosses" distanced themselves from him. After that, Vacić will be recognizable as the "the dude everyone is ashamed of".
After four months of work in the Office for the Ministry of Culture, Vacić realized that "much more can be done there than in ten years on the street", so in 2018 he founded his political organization Serbian right. He said that it is much more "moderate" than SNP 1389, because it was an "idyllic movement, pure of heart, fighting against windmills", while the Serbian right is "more pragmatic" and "aware that one is wishes and the other is possibilities".
Part of the public compares the role of Miša Vacić on the political scene in Serbia to the role played by Vojislav Šešelj during the regime of Slobodan Milošević - to intimidate and show that he can always do worse. That's how Vacić was able to threaten displacement, calls for "spitting Zelenović behind bars" or throwing him into the Drina, the list of those who are not to his liking is not short.
He was among those who supported the idea of creating "citizen patrols", which would supposedly assist the MUP in regular activities, which many saw as an attempt to decentralize citizen security and an attempt to create parapolice structures.
In ten years, he sees himself at the top of the government, he sees the candidacy for president as a challenge to everyone "to understand how serious he is". He believes that it is time for Aleksandar Vučić to "retire" and Dragan Đilas "to go to prison". He promotes a healthy life and sportsmanship, regularly reads newspapers and books. He sees the alliance with Russia as natural, and fights against the "neoliberal concept of the EU and NATO".
In the elections, he will run in front of the Serbian Right party, which advocates for a patriarchal society and the abolition of the right to abortion. He believes that European values are "anti-civilizational", and their acceptance would lead Serbia and Serbs to the "darkness of the new barbarism".
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