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Among the SNS activists who threw eggs and bottles at citizens in Novi Sad last weekend, the most active was Vukašin Đoković. Who is the new "boyfriend number 1" and how was his "political development"
Wherever something is happening - he is there to participate. Ideology, it seems, is less important to him.
The police were in Novi Sad last weekend intervened with batons against activists of the Serbian Progressive Party, after they repeatedly threw eggs and plastic bottles at citizens who were demonstrating in front of the premises of that party.
He was the most active among them Vukasin Djokovic who shouted "Kosovo is the heart of Serbia" through the megaphone on several occasions, but failed to get other supporters of the progressives to shout with him. Then he tried with "Aco Srbine", to which the gathered citizens shouted "whoa", reported the reporter N1.
A seeker of adrenaline and political affiliation
During 2019, he was photographed at several "1 out of 5 million - Stop bloody shirts" protests, mostly in Novi Sad.
In September 2021, Đoković was one of the activists who submitted a list of candidates for councilors of the Mionica Municipal Assembly, and in 2020 he was photographed in Novi Sad with members of the People's Party of Vuk Jeremic who called for a boycott of the elections, BIRN reported.
In the same year, he took part in the working meeting of the Serbian-Russian Center Majak, where this organization drew up its work plan.
In March 2022, he was one of the activists of the NADA coalition (POKS, DSS) who submitted the signatures for Miloš Jovanović's candidacy for President of Serbia to the Republican Election Commission.
In March 2024, Đoković was filmed as an activist of the Serbian Progressive Party, tearing up student posters on the campus of the University of Novi Sad. Just a few months before that, in January of the same year, he commented on the protests against obstetric violence on Informer television - in the role of a political analyst.
Then he waved his index finger in the morning program TV Pink in the role of a security student who opposes the blockades and supports the government.
On that occasion, he stated that there are students who support the government of both President Vučić and Prime Minister Vučević, as well as that the students who block the faculties were manipulated by the opposition.
The plenum of students at the Faculty of Security denied that Vukašin Djokovic is a student at the Faculty of Security at the University of Belgrade. They state that Djokovic mentioned during her guest appearances in the regime media that she was attending security studies.
"During those guest appearances, it is mentioned that he comes from Novi Sad, but not at which faculty/university he attends security studies. The only state faculty that provides students with education in the field of security is our faculty, and it is also the only Faculty of Security that is blocked," the students explain.
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