On Saturday, on Vidovdan, Belgrade and Serbia will see the first major protest since the blockaded students demanded early elections.
This is what the title topic is dedicated to new issue of "Vreme" which is on newsstands from Thursday (June 26).
President Aleksandar Vučić dug in and refuses to consider these demands. "Both sides are characterized by the fact that they have no intention of giving in. They differ, however, in that one wants to change everything, and the other - to keep everything as it was," Jovana Gligorijević writes in the title text and analyzes:
"Citizens want the regime to go, and such things always end according to the will of the citizens. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later, but regimes and authorities come and go, but society always remains."
Vučić hits in fear and misses
Political scientist Duško Radosavljević told "Vreme" that they are actually waiting for the "final blow" of the rebellious students and citizens or "another fatal mistake by the regime that would mark its end."
As he states, we are now in the phase of "mortification", which actually reflects Vučić's character.
"Out of self-known interests, which we think are deeply corrupt, he does not want, cannot and will not step down, even though he knows that against him and the regime are the majority of society who do not want him to continue ruining the state and citizens. In the situation of a groggy boxer, he punches both left and right, and misses under the visible effect of fear," says Radosavljević.
Unity and one demand
In the author's text, Professor Vladeta Janković recalls the Vidovdan Assembly in 1992, which lasted for days, and calls for lessons to be learned from it - how not to dissipate the energy of the street.
"Serbia should not be invited only for the purpose of gathering a large crowd (there is no encore for such magnificent songs), but rather direct the preserved, very existing energy towards a certain purpose without allowing it to be wasted", writes Janković and specifies:
"We need to negotiate, but by no means without direct television transmission, while maintaining absolute unity and from a position of strength (which in this case means with the effective support of a large part of the public), and have a limited, attainable and if at all possible only one goal - media equal and fair elections."
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