The announced People's Declaration on Vojvodina is just another miserable attempt by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, to divert attention from the causes of the civil rebellion by dividing them into traitors and patriots, according to the interlocutors of "Vremen".
Attempt by the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić that by adopting some kind of People's Declaration on Vojvodina in Serbia, it would create discord among the citizens of Serbia and raise tensions in Vojvodina, for the sake of diverting attention from the mass civil rebellion, is doomed, the interlocutors of "Vremen" agree.
The declaration, which, with a lot of symbolism and the presence of Milorad Dodik, should be adopted at the Meeting in Sremska Mitrovica, will not achieve the effect that Vučić wants, because the issue of Vojvodina has already been resolved by the highest legal act - the Constitution, our interlocutors say.
The status of Vojvodina is defined by the Constitution
Member of the Free Citizens Movement in the Parliament of Serbia, Ana Oreg, points out that the whole situation is pointless, because there is a Constitution in which the position of Vojvodina is clearly defined.
"I don't see the need for any declaration in which, as far as I understand, it will be written that Vojvodina is an integral part of Serbia." Of course, it is an integral part of Serbia, no one disputes that," says Oreg for "Vreme".
He emphasizes that the story about Vojvodina and separatism was invented in order to divert the focus from the protest.
"First we heard it from Ana Brnabić, then from Miloš Vučević, and then from Aleksandar Vučić, and it's obvious that they came up with that propaganda spin, on the wave of which they are trying to make citizens hate student and civil rebellion. They seem to be defending something that no one is attacking," says Oreg.
"There is absolutely no person, even among, so to speak, the most inveterate autonomists, who advocates separatism. When we talk about autonomy, it mainly refers to the decentralization not only of Vojvodina, but of the whole of Serbia, to the decentralization of money flows, which this government does not suit at all because it wants to fully control the distribution of financial resources," says Oreg, she adds.
Pure populism
When asked if Vučić's intention is to raise tensions between the majority Serbian people and minorities in Vojvodina with the declaration, Oreg says that he does not believe that, because it would be a "desperate attempt".
"It has already been mentioned that Balint Pastor and the Union of Vojvodina Hungarians will stand behind the declaration. It is pure populism, accusations and dividing people into traitors and patriots. They are thus trying to quarrel with the civil part of Vojvodina. I don't think it's about raising interethnic tensions, but about dividing people into traitors and patriots," says Oreg.
She reminds that Vučić does not mind Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's scarf with a map of Greater Hungary, which would also include Vojvodina.
"Despite that, there is talk of Serbian-Hungarian friendship." Both of them create a very practical and very secular populism, and it is always easiest to divide people on a national basis. This is a radical method and what they used in the nineties. Now they are trying to do the same, but it seems to me that they are trying to do it among the citizens of Serbian nationality," concludes Oreg.
Inventing enemies
MP of the Freedom and Justice Party in the Parliament of Vojvodina, Marica Puskaš, points out that Vučić's declaration is a "wretched attempt to divert attention from the protest".
"Vučić announced a declaration about Vojvodina in Serbia, which, as he says, 'has nothing to do with any protests, nothing.' What kind of spectacular declaration that "has nothing to do with anything" can the progressives make, if their deputies in the AP Vojvodina Assembly call the opposition members traitors, mercenaries and Ustasha? "Those who can't pronounce the word Vojvodina on their tongue, while they are being paid handsomely by the members of those 27 Vojvodina nations?" Puskas told "Vreme".
She assesses that the announcement of the adoption of the declaration is "the finale of the progressive campaign that all those protesting want to secede from Vojvodina".
"It is clear to every citizen that the protests in all Vojvodina towns have the same demands and goals, as those in the rest of Serbia, and that the talk of separatism now, just as it was thirty-odd years ago, is the invention of an enemy and a miserable attempt to cause a deeper crisis - a crisis whose goal is to divert attention from the demands of the protests," says Puskas.
"So what" came to the fore
Nevertheless, she warns, taught by previous experiences with radicals, such statements, wishes and intentions bring unrest to the citizens of Vojvodina.
"Let's remember, not only that Vučić's 'political father' had a lot of precise statements and actions against members of certain peoples and nationalities of Vojvodina, but Vučić himself stated clear proportions in the ratio of '100 for one'," says Puskas.
However, this latest "progressive bućkuriš, served to appease and divide the public, fortunately no one can swallow anymore".
"It is clear to everyone that the 'non-political demands' of students and citizens aim at the political end of a regime. "Vučić himself knows how to count small, because corruption and his 'so what' have paid off," concludes Puskas.
Aleksandar Olenik, a lawyer and member of the Presidency of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, assesses that the announcement of the declaration is another in a series of "unsuccessful and unintelligent ideas to divert the focus of attention from the protests of students, citizens, lawyers, doctors and teachers."
Cowardly behavior of Vučić
"The point is not to talk or write about the general rebellion of citizens and the fact that 80 percent of them support street protests." Then Vučić feverishly, every day, fires off some idea in the hope that someone will deal with it," says Olenik for "Vreme".
He points out that such behavior of Vučić is "cowardly", but that it is immanent to him, because that is what he does all the time.
When asked whether the announced declaration could increase tensions in Vojvodina, Olenik answered in the negative.
"Just as he himself is irrelevant and incompetent for such things, such statements can do absolutely nothing." Citizens of Vojvodina are neither interested nor interested in secession, they do not think about it. They laugh when they hear such unintelligent statements, and I must admit that I am amazed that you ask such questions at all, because with such questions, I must admit, you give importance to a stupid idea," concludes Olenik.
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