The Re-Seselization of Serbia: The Turbo Return of Vojislav Seselj

On Monday Informer, on Tuesday Pink, on Wednesday First, on Thursday Happy, on Friday again Informer... That's roughly how the average working week of the president looks like Serbian Radical Parties Vojislav Seselj, which in the past few months seems to have a guaranteed place in every studio where it is necessary to strike hard at opponents of the regime.

There, Šešelj is doing what he has been an undisputed champion for for more than 30 years - skešelj, which means he attacks, threatens, labels, lies, invents, spreads conspiracy theories... Strong skešelj is then poured into the brain of the average viewer of Informer and Pink in regular doses, where he cocoons himself and waits for the right moment to preach further, in the form of Sešelj's views.

"Sešelj says that..." are words that the author of this text hears alarmingly often, mostly from older fellow citizens and extended family members.

What does the Chetnik duke Vojislav Šešelj have to say, and that it is so valuable that it guarantees him a regular television space barely a little smaller than his political stepson and best student Aleksandar Vučić?

Šešelj's wisdom

With regime television editors lining up to hear some of Seselj's wisdom, retrieving and sifting through his recent musings would be a long and arduous task.

Fortunately, the radicals regularly brag about their president's statements on their social networks.

Thus, we can randomly select a few statements of Vojislav Šešelj, which, it seems, raise the ratings of television stations so much that they call him again and again.

"A bare-bellied whore forbade the best student to enter the faculty?! She is the most common piece of garbage to forbid an honors student from entering the faculty building, and let's see her index? She doesn't even know how to explain what a plenum is. A fool," Seselj said on June 5 on Informer.

Three days later, on the same television: "Where did the progressives find such a fool as Vladan Đokić and support him as rector or Ivanka Popović before him?! Can you imagine that monster being the rector of a university?! Đokić was writing a paper about the color revolution in London. He was preparing."

There is work for those who want to work - Šešelj finished his guest appearance on Informer in the evening, took a nap and went to the Prva TV studio the next morning. There, after the insults, he switched to threats.

"All Serbian traitors must be removed from the university. Traitors cannot educate our students, neither our students in primary nor secondary schools. This must be dealt with."

These are the statements made publicly by the president of the Serbian Radical Party only in the last week. Considering the frequency of his guest appearances, it is possible that new wisdom will be born in the period from the beginning of writing to the end of this text.

Re-shelterization of Serbia

In the circles of people who normally do not value Seselj's character and work too much, the activities of the leader of the Serbian Radical Party in the last ten years are mostly viewed with derision - as sad attempts by a politician whose time has long passed to get back into the game.

In the meantime, he was "cut" in that game by younger, more modern, more radical than the original radicals.

"There, Seselj is poisoning something again...", one would hear from time to time since Seselj's return to Serbia from The Hague, more casually, as if it were the negligible theorizing of a pensioner in front of a village cooperative.

However, in the past few months, the spoliation has gained so much momentum that one can see in real time how the re-spoliation of Serbia is happening - Vojislav Šešelj once again becomes an important actor from political irrelevance, if not on the political, then at least on the media scene, on those televisions that have been the mainstay of this regime for almost a decade and a half.

This can be seen in the vocabulary, attitudes and behavior of those who receive their regular daily dose of Seselj. They are in a continuous war with imaginary enemies, they are ready to defend Serbia with their bare hands, and above all, Aleksandar Vučić, from imaginary traitors who want to overthrow it, they disown family members who do not share their position, and perhaps some of them are the ones who have actually physically attacked dissenters in the past months, out of ideological convictions - hitting them with cars, attacking them with knives and the like.

Reshaping Vučić

In parallel with the reshelization of Serbia, the reshelization of Vučić is also taking place, who until now has tried his best to, because of his Western partners, at least maintain the semblance of democracy.

As time goes on, and the rebellion in the country does not subside, we have the opportunity to watch live the washing of the blue European paint from the already stained black radical overcoat of the President of Serbia.

In the past two days alone, several university professors, one dean, one student and one high school graduate were arrested and detained - the latter on the day of his graduation. A high school graduate from Kosjerić was detained for 48 hours due to an alleged attack on an Informer journalist. At the same time, citizens began to receive fines for participating in commemorative traffic blockades lasting 16 minutes, in memory of those who died in the fall of the canopy at the Railway Station in Novi Sad.

While the repression is intensifying, Vučić tells citizens on television to "trust their state" and that the state will "choose the moment when it will completely restore order."

Maybe that's why resheseljization is a misnomer when it comes to Vučić. It seems that the president of Serbia is trying hard to surpass his teacher.