Photo: MCRegime media are doing what they exist for: they call Zdravko Ponoš a "traitor", "NATO general", "tycoon among generals", "thief candidate Dragan Đilas". The elections have not even been announced yet
As before the presidential elections in 2017, the regime's media once again sneered at the likely opponent of Aleksandar Vučić and the SNS. Then their target was the former defender of the citizens Saša Janković, now their focus is on Zdravka Ponoša, and along the way they attack Vlade Janković: the first is a direct competitor to the President, the second could definitely mess up the SNS in Belgrade.
These days, TV Happy, for example, has been exhaustively engaged in "revealing" that it is Zdravko Ponoš the "traitor" of the Serbian Army, that the British put him at the head of the General Staff, and the guests of the morning program testified to the existence of a "connection between Ponoš and the British".
"Večernje novosti" also dealt with that topic, with the fact that, according to them, Ponoš became the head of the General Staff after the insistence of Washington. They documented their "discoveries" with "WikiLeaks" cables, which were interpreted by the president of the Court of Honor of the Association of Journalists of Serbia, Ljiljana Smajlović. Parts of the communication between Ambassador Michael Polt and Vojislav Koštunica were quoted.
"Novosti", which in the meantime forgot about their big cover of Đilas's huge accounts, also claim that Ponoš wanted the Serbian Army to "abolish itself", because he advocated reducing manpower, closing military bases and changing the state of mind of the armed forces. They claim that "Croats are looking forward" to Ponoš as a presidential candidate, because he was born in Croatia and because he says he is "in love" with Zagreb.
According to "Informer", "NATO-General" Ponoš would surely circle "yes" in the referendum on membership in NATO. Ponoš once stated that the Serbian army should "reach the security standards of modern Europe." Those standards are set by whoever is the best, and that, at the moment, is NATO. Therefore, it is up to us to reach those standards, and whether, when we do that, there will be political will and the desire of the citizens of Serbia to formally enter that alliance, may not be the most important thing."
Apart from those details from the biography of Vučić's opponent, other media sympathetic to the government are also dealing with the information that during Ponoš's two-year mandate at the head of the Army, "tanks were melted", and especially with his property situation.
Thus, "Objektiv" on the front page boasts of the discovery of the contract according to which Ponoš has an apartment in Vračar that "cost as much as the average citizen of Serbia cannot earn in his lifetime", and there are also four garage spaces. It is commented that Ponoš is a "tycoon among generals" just like Dragan Đilas, the president of the party that nominates him for president, is a "tycoon among politicians". They also accuse him of showing a false value of that property in order to pay less tax.
B92 and "Alo" state that as soon as he was elected Chief of the General Staff, "Đilasov Ponoš" declared that he would arrest Ratko Mladić.
To Vlade Janković, the opposition candidate for mayor of Belgrade, the tabloids, for now, most often call him out because of his age.
"Republika" announces that Belgrade will lead a "council of wise men" due to the sum of years of the architect Dragoljub Bakić i Pavle Petrović from the Fiscal Council, whom Janković mentioned as people with whom he would like to cooperate. This portal also reveals, "from reliable sources", that Vladeta Janković's candidacy is only "a way for Đilas to appoint his own people to the city administration".
Vladeta Janković's statement that the monument dedicated to Stefan Nemanja should be moved to Marinko's bar is considered "shameful" by the tabloids, and in his opinion that he does not like Belgrade on the water, they added that as soon as he becomes mayor, he will "demolish" it. The newspaper "Alo" claims that Vladeta Janković would "demolish tombstones in Lešće."
In 2017, when by this same method the electorate needed to denigrate Saša Janković as much as possible, the state media enjoyed the story of Predrag Gojković who killed himself in Janković's apartment with a gun that was registered in his name, and then "research" whether Saša Janković was in Vukovar as a mobilized member of the JNA or as a member of volunteer formations.
Saša Janković was then in second place with 16,36 percent of the votes. Vučić convincingly won the first round.
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