What can Aleksandar Vučić expect in Novi Sad? Will the citizens who oppose end up like those in Uzice? Or will the president cancel Novi Sad at the last minute?
Aleksandar Vučić is touring the country in the pre-election summer, and on September 4 he announced a visit to Novi Sad. He did not enter that city, at least not as the president of Serbia, for almost two years, i.e. from November 4, 2024. Then he appeared to, allegedly, calm the city down due to riots, after the fall of the canopy and the terrible death of people.
Since then, the whole of Serbia has stood up countless times behind the students, and Vučić is now returning to the place he was not allowed to visit all this time and announcing a rally. The announced meeting on September 4 is the continuation of a series of big announcements Social Media gatherings in Novi Sad. According to Istinomer data, in the previous year and a half, Vučić announced such a gathering as many as seven times, but none of the earlier announcements resulted in holding a large rally in that city.
The mayor of Novi Sad, Žarko Mićin, said that the citizens are actually waiting to show en masse how much they are looking forward to the arrival of President Aleksandar Vučić at Trg slobode, but the choirs of Novi Sad are organizing protest rallies to show that the president is not welcome. They invited people from the rest of the country to come.
"Given that they are certainly evaluating the situation as they passed in Užice, there is a possibility that they will change their mind and cancel the rally, although at this moment it would be a very bad signal to their electorate. They are in a situation where they cannot postpone, and they cannot come either. We certainly hope that they will not come, because Aleksandar Vučić is not welcome in Novi Sad," they said.
However, there are those who think that Vučić will cancel the whole thing at the last minute.
Dejan Kulja, member of the Presidency of Serbia Center and trustee of the Novi Sad City Board, expects exactly that.
"Novi Sad is a wounded city. Less than two years ago, a canopy fell, a terrible tragedy took place that took 16 lives. Instead of party meetings, the people of Novi Sad expect answers, the truth, they expect to know why it happened and they expect to know who is responsible. Novi Sad does not need a meeting at this moment," Kulja told Nova S television.
He emphasized that the last time Aleksandar Vučić was in Novi Sad, he promised, right in front of the SNS party premises, that he would start dealing with criminal gangs tomorrow, but that nothing happened.
"Novi Sad, which was synonymous with security in the earlier period, is no longer so. Simply, security is at risk. I would not like any unpleasant scenes to happen, it is not in the character of the people of Novi Sad. I expect the people of Novi Sad to take to the streets in large numbers and thereby show how much they care more about the truth and the answers regarding the canopy, and not about the party meeting that is being organized," said Kulja.
Novi Sad students told Danas that they expect the same goal as the goal of the rally in Užice, "organized and forced bringing of employees from the public sector under the threat of dismissal as well as bribing and blackmailing the most vulnerable part of our society, so as not to create the impression that SNS still has support and control over the people."
"Exactly because of this, Novi Sad, as a city that has suffered the biggest blows of the regime and which is shrouded in black due to the fall of the canopy and the death of sixteen people, for which even after less than two years there is no one responsible, represents the only acceptable prelude to the election campaign in order to falsify the impression that the SNS is still desirable," the students said.
They added that this is a direct display of the insensitivity and powerlessness of the SNS because they are aware that they are no longer welcome anywhere and that their support has been reduced to blackmail, threats and bribery, and that they are afraid of their own people considering that at such gatherings, as in Užice.
"A huge number of gendarmerie units must be present so that the voice of the people, which has been brought to the brink of existence by the regime, was not suppressed and silenced," the students announced.
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