Photo: Tanjug"The institution of the president interprets reality, solves problems, offers explanations for policies that should be implemented by the government according to the Constitution, the president adopts or does not adopt laws that should be adopted by the National Assembly," explains CRTE program director Raša Nedeljkov for the "Vreme" portal.
The new address of the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić to the public will take place tomorrow at 13 pm in the Presidency building on Andrićevo venc.
According to the data civil society organizations CRTA, the president of Serbia addressed himself directly, via television with a national frequency, more than 190 times in eight months of this year.
The most addresses were in April - 32 times. In January 17, in February 27, in March 30, May 21, June and July 23 and August 21 times.
The announcement of the latest address by the President of Serbia "on all important issues" came two days after the opposition parties requested that special parliamentary and Belgrade elections be called since the demands of the "Serbia Against Violence" protest have not yet been met.
Whether the president will talk about it tomorrow is just speculation for now.
Interpreter of reality
When asked why the president addressed the public almost two hundred times in eight months, CRTE program director Raša Nedeljkov replied that it indicates the absence of a democratic society.
"What we see through this way of communication with voters and citizens is the other side of the coin of institutional, i.e. democratic collapse in which the only institution that functions and the only institution that is declared competent and arbiter for all issues in society is the institution of the president".
This is achieved, as he explains, by "the institution of the president interprets reality, solves problems, offers explanations for policies that should be implemented by the Government according to the Constitution, the president adopts or does not adopt laws that should be adopted by the National Assembly".
About anything and everything except the main thing
At the beginning of last month, the president addressed the public three times in a week - with Prime Minister Ana Brnabić from the Palace of Serbia when they talked about the EXPO 2027 project, in the Ćirilica show on TV Happy and in the morning program TV Pink.
Before the speech in the Palace of Serbia, it was not said what the president and the prime minister will talk about.
As the website "Vreme" wrote, instead of the topic they were expected to talk about - that over 50 European parliamentarians signed a letter calling on the United States of America, the European Union and Great Britain to tighten their policy towards Serbia and its president due to destabilization. of Kosovo and the region, the president and the prime minister talked about the vision of a new, fantastic Serbia through the narrative "they want to drag us into wars, and we want to build".
Read more Brnabić and Vučić: Serbia will be even more fantastic than it is now
In a similar vein, the president addressed the nation in July saying that "the former government was servile to foreign countries" and that he was not afraid of anyone or anything.
Read more Another address by Vučić: Once again about everything and the elections
Therefore, as can be seen in many addresses, the president often, in addition to the topics on which he would be expected to speak, mentions the Prime Minister of Kosovo Aljbin Kurti, representatives of the opposition and all those who are "enemies" of Serbia, Nedeljkov states and says that this kind of addresses are used to deal with some other topics "under the guise of state affairs".
"It is a substitution of theses in which the authority of the position of the president is used in a hybrid democratic regime, that is, in a society of facade democracy."
How in the world do they do it?
As the interlocutor of "Vremena" explains, in democratic countries, presidents or prime ministers directly address the nation once a year. The occasions are mostly major holidays or major crises.
"This is not about specific causes of crises, but about a constant interpretation of political reality in which only one person, one political figure, one institution is made and fabricated into a relevant one through their speeches. Everything else is irrelevant. It only matters what one person thinks," concludes Nedeljkov.
Read daily news, analysis, commentary and interviews at www.vreme.com
A group of individuals has created two websites where public procurement of the Telecom and IT sectors can be searched and compared. They invite the media, experts and citizens to review the documentation and submit reasoned observations
Very soon it could become obvious whether Milan Radoičić has left Serbia or not
The hospital formed a commission for an extraordinary expert check and informed the health inspection. Cases of death during childbirth in Serbia rarely receive a judicial epilogue.
Two unions of public services supported the request of FDU students for information about RTS employees, since claims appeared in the public that it was a request for "files". The students say they are looking for "public truth about public service."
Among those pardoned is the man who attacked a citizen who came to ask about the street in the office of the mayor of Kosjerić in April. The pardon applies only to one of the two offenses, and the injured party announces a constitutional appeal.
At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vučić's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
Vučić pardoned the batterers and Dijana Hrkalović. The election winners should abolish the sultan's power that allows one man to run afoul of the entire judicial system
Interview: Branko Stamenković, public prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office
A black picture and the breakdown of the rule of law subscribeThe archive of the weekly Vreme includes all our digital editions, since the very beginning of our work. All issues can be downloaded in PDF format, by purchasing the digital edition, or you can read all available texts from the selected issue.
See all
