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Vučić, Vučević and Brnabić: All requests fulfilled, let's talk

January 27, 2025, 19:19 am HAVE
Photo: Tanjug/Marko Djokovic
Ana Brnabić, Aleksandar Vučić and Miloš Vučević
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The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said that absolutely all possible and impossible demands of the students have been met, so they can return to their desks and continue studying. Both Prime Minister Miloš Vučević and Speaker of the National Assembly Ana Brnabić spoke very briefly in this sense

Although the students have repeatedly said that they are not interested in what the president of Serbia does Aleksandar Vučić has to say when he goes out of his constitutional framework, he has done it again. He spoke on behalf of the competent ministers and the Prosecutor's Office student requests.

He is happy, he said, that everyone understood each other and that now the police are helping those who are protesting "illegally", i.e. students, to ensure public order and peace "in a wider area". Previously, admittedly, when someone ran into a student protest column he said - "so what", but Vučić did not refer to it on this occasion.

And he, Vučić, lives for the students to live better and wants to talk to them, so he invited them to, if they want, invite him to a block to play chess and talk, because dialogue is the only way, not hatred towards to anyone.

The President of Serbia also said that on this occasion he will put aside his cynicism, to which he is prone, and that this state of affairs, this atmosphere of accusations and calls for the overthrow of the state, does not suit anyone, and is, he said humbly, the responsibility of "all of us".

Students' requirements fulfilled

People will be on the side of those who want to talk, said Vučić, and then he repeated that he wants to talk and explained in detail how absolutely all the demands of the students have been met. He also came out on the board to show how.

Performance of Vučić, Vučević, Brnabić: Nobody asked them anything

First, the publication of the entire documentation related to the fall of the canopy - published.

He enumerated some powerful figures on the matter of how many documents were published, point by point, a total of 24 points, and said that everything possible and impossible was published and that when he personally asked for it to be done.

Everything is fulfilled and there is an onljan, everything, everything we have, we have delivered, said Vučić.

Second, confirmation of the competent authorities on the identity of all persons who attacked the students, initiation of proceedings against them and dismissal from duty - fulfilled.

He says that proceedings have been initiated against 37 persons.

Third, the suspension of criminal proceedings against all persons who participated in the protests, 13 of them - will be fulfilled.

Because they were waiting for the Prosecutor's Office to reject the reports, but it did not do so.

Photo: Tanjug/Marko Djokovic
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić

But he will pardon them, if the students want it, in accordance with the powers of the President of the Republic.

Fourth, the increase of the budget for higher education by 20 percent for material costs - will be fulfilled.

Vučić explained that 16 percent of that will go to professors' salaries, and that it is obvious that the professors wanted it for themselves. And there he showed some figures, and Siniša Mali suggested how many billions those were.

They fulfilled all that, said Vučić, because it is extremely important to them that young people return to their classrooms and start learning, because of them, therefore, because he takes care of the children, the same ones he called foreign mercenaries, and not because he, Vučić, is afraid of anyone or anything, because he is not afraid of anyone or anything.

And for the sake of the country's economic stability, it is important for students to disperse, that, higher salaries and pensions, the Balkan economic tiger.

Who will not admit that everything is fulfilled

However, some people want others in Serbia to do the dirty work for them, so they may not want to admit that all student demands have been met.

Will all this be enough for someone to admit that all the requirements have been met? He, Vučić hopes that he will, but he is not sure.

So he called for a dialogue and was appalled by the invasion of Matica Srpska at the Svetosava Academy. He is also appalled by the attack on a woman in Jagodina.

On the one hand, there is justified or unjustified anger, the president of Serbia stated, which causes increasing anger on the larger side of the political spectrum, which sounded a bit like a threat again, although this time he really refrained from threats.

He also emphasized that public opinion polls from Sunday evening show that SNS is stronger than ever.

Then Vucevic invited everyone to a dialogue, and Brnabić invited the representatives of the parliamentary groups to agree on the session of the Assembly that will be held on Wednesday. It was very short lived.

All in all, this polarization in society is not good, but there is no serious crisis, the government is stable, is Vučić's message. In the end he laughed and said something funny to show how worried he was.

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