Photo: Zoran Zestić/Tanjug"There will be another help for young people, if we don't lose the elections," said Aleksandar Vučić from the train we bought from the Swiss. This time he did not mention the specific amount, but it remains to be seen who will be generous in the future - just to win
Probably, Serbia does not have excess money in the budget for a new gift of 100 euros in dinar equivalent for all citizens between 16 and 30 years old, otherwise the president of Serbia would have promised them immediately. He did not mention the specific sum in case the Serbian Progressive Party wins, so it could turn out that the vote of the youth, in addition to the 100, is worth only another 30, or even 20 euros. Aleksandar Vučić is counting on the fact that young people carry themselves "better with a sparrow in their hand than Frankfurt on the Main", as the late poet Ivan V. Lalić used to say.
But young people also know how to count, they know that even that "sparrow" will be eaten by inflation by the summer, so it may be that there is not much more left than for yogurt and milk and that Frankfurt becomes even more tempting. Better to spend that money now.
According to Sinisa Malog, almost a million people, young people up to the age of 30, applied for immediate financial assistance. Why wouldn't you apply? They are not given by Mali at the behest of Vučić from his own pocket. They are given by the State of Serbia from the budget, from citizens' money. In essence, those young people who already pay income tax give it to themselves, or their parents, so it comes to him as extra pocket money.
It would have been fairer if the President had openly said that this is a small sign of attention because of the terrible macroeconomic policy they are leading, and young people are tolerating it; that these 100 euros are due to the salaries with which the vast majority of young people live from today to tomorrow, and now with inflation that exceeds 10 percent they won't be able to do anything yet.
When that money is already being distributed, why wouldn't we take it. New sneakers will fall, or a weekend in a spa in Serbia. It won't be enough for skiing, that is. it would be, but for one day. But if they shared 100 euros every few months, maybe in a few years it would be enough to go on a decent ski trip.
Vučić also added that young people will feel this money as their first own money, which, as he says, "gives rise to additional responsibility towards money and responsibility towards the state". As if they had to work for him.
He did not say whether he was referring to the "responsibility" towards the Progressives, that it is mandatory to vote for them on April 3, because they are the state.
Young people need to know that the new aid that was given and the additional one that was promised, both as a bribe for votes for Vučić and the SNS, will reach them with interest in another term of crushing the Progressives in the event of their victory. At the end of the day, the young people could find that money for a one-way bus ticket to somewhere where there is no need to share money, where you normally live off your work and your salary.
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