This with Vučić, Dacić and the "government crisis" metastasized into an obscure TV form known as - fake reality shows. This is when engaged amateurs act out the reality that usually precedes some black-chronic denouement "husband slaughtered his adulterous wife", "she killed her father-in-law because he wanted to rape her" and the like. In the beginning, the public was not sure whether those shouts, curses and throat grabbing were real or not, and viewership probably grew in the hope that everything was real, but the Republic Broadcasting Agency (RRA) pressed by the calls of a few concerned parents "spoiled the story". requesting that at the end of each episode it was written to the viewers that everything was, in fact, a feature program. Episodes of our political quasi-documentary with a lot of emotions, intrigue, swearing, and even physical confrontations in the announcement are written in the tabloids, and engaged politicians from time to time get carried away by the atmosphere of the microphone being turned on and say what is not written in the script and immediately bite language. Just like how Vice Prime Minister Ivica Dacic got really carried away the other day and he cursed and said all kinds of things against "Kurir", SNS, Prime Minister Vučić and Police Minister Nebojša Stefanović, all because of a one and a half meter medal owned by him, he says was Slobodan Milošević himself. After repenting and apologizing, Dacic was also late for the flight to Berlin, so the prime minister got very annoyed again and all that. The audience, although already experienced in consuming fake reality from the bottom of the tub, is still not sure what is being directed and what is reality - swallowing. Hardly anyone has the time to read that the number of GSP vehicles on the streets of Belgrade was reduced by ten percent on the day when children started school, or to try to find news about how there is at least one person in Obrenovac who is satisfied with the compensation for the house that was destroyed by a flood, or to hear something about the announced strikes of educators, party employment, the final agreement on the reduction of pensions and what else. Who cares about that when the head of diplomacy cursed the mother of the police chief in Nemanja 11? And the police chief later promised that he would advise "his friend the prime minister" to fire the nervous curser from the government?
After all, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić, like some high priest, declared for the other tabloid, "Informer": "I only deal with state problems, I only see how to bring as many investments as possible to this country." The citizens did not choose me to fall in love with this or that, not even with Dacic. I cooperate with him in the best possible way in the interest of the state. And a full stop to every further story." And although the world could understand Vučić's "full stop" as a warning at the end of the fake reality show that everything was in fact a game program, that did not stop "Kurir" from continuing all that mudslinging in the mud. tabloid games. Thus, the weekend was spent in a regular fight between Ivica Dačić and Tomislav Nikolić over who will compete with whom in the next presidential elections, and Monday dawned again in the calculations about Boris Tadic as the first replacement for Ivica Dačić in some new reconstructed Vučić's government, which is almost not , until the New Year, and that's the day after tomorrow.
THE ORDER AFFAIR: So, it all started when the journalist "Kurir" invited the Vice Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, the current head of Serbian diplomacy, to comment on the information according to which the Order of Yugoslavia awarded to Slobodan Milošević was hidden in the head of the MUP for years, that is to say, also for Dacic's time in the MUP. And then Dacic, surprised, furious, angry and hurt, quite loudly, they claim, said this: "Do you know that there is a rumor that the progressives will shut you down by the New Year?!" Who will stay with you then? Do you know what kind of attacks I suffered because of you! I came to celebrate your birthday, none of the progressives were there, and you persistently go after them. Do you know what kind of pain I suffered from Vučić afterwards? Did Nebojša Stefanović give you that story?! Now I'm going to call him to hire his mother! What are you doing to me? What did I do to deserve it? Is Nebojša great for you now? I'll eat you all."
The Deputy Prime Minister did not say anything new. It has been known for a long time, it's just not talked about so publicly and loudly, how everything works in Serbia between the authorities and the media. Who are whose journalists and who wants to put which newspaper under ice. And why. And how newspapers, tabloids or others, are just a plastic gun that these and those politicians wave in front of each other's eyes, to the satisfaction of the inflamed masses.
That's why Ivica Dacic's outburst in "Kurir", no matter how tragicomic a treat for bazaar retellings, should be taken seriously, just like the recent tragedy in Omaha, USA, when the police mistakenly invaded the filming of a reality show and opened fire in order to prevent an alleged robbery in a restaurant. fast food. A member of the crew of the TV reality program and the "suspect", who had a plastic gun with him, were killed. Because, what Dacic said in affect is evidence on a plate, a naked picture, a close-up of the functioning of the media and the authorities in Serbia, where there are many plastic guns in play, but you never know when the real one will fire.
FLIGHT TO BERLIN: And just when everything seemed to have calmed down, because Vice Prime Minister Dacic apologized honestly, as they say "both as a man and as a communist", the tabloid announcements of the crisis in the government continued. This time because the head of diplomacy, as reported by the "Informer" tabloid, was ten minutes late at the airport before leaving for Berlin. Again, the saint was thrown a juicy bone to grind. Because he was late, because the prime minister wanted to take off without him. The tabloid reality show continued with drama on Surčin: "Yesterday morning at exactly eight, the prime minister ordered the doors to be closed and the state plane to take off without the head of diplomacy." The plane was already on its way to the runway when Dacic appeared at the last minute. Vučić is also furious because of the SPS leader's media outburst." ("Informer", August 28) We even learned something about Dacić's metabolism.
Namely, it is not unusual or, if you will, journalistically unjustified that such news about Dacic's delay appeared on the front page of the newspaper, but something else is interesting. We live in a country where every day the public's real interest in knowing is skilfully dodged, covered up, postponed, there are strong justifications why something (like the contract with Etihad) cannot be published, or is only partially published. Here, those in power love mystifications, the commissioner for information has his hands full because this is an extremely non-transparent government. Therefore, what is public interest is difficult to disclose. What, in its essence, is not of public interest, and the details regarding the state flight to Berlin are not, because Vučić did not travel without Dacić - we found that out right away. Here, the media serves to discredit politicians at the expense of some other politicians, and there is a very transparent need for the top of the SNS, let's say Vučić, to publicly humiliate Ivica Dačić at every step and at every opportunity and present him as a not very valuable, slow politician who is day by day more and more tired and unable to deal with the work entrusted to him. And, hand on heart, Dacic makes it easier for him wholeheartedly. Is it a question of metabolism or fatigue, because, according to Prime Minister Vučić's instructions, he did not rest outside of Serbia, like some, that is another story.
PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS: Right there, in Turkey, the story of Dacic's presidential ambitions begins. Why in Turkey? Because President Tomislav Nikolić was resting in Turkey. Now, for those who wonder what kind of nonsense these are and what Nikolić's vacation has to do with Dacic's presidential ambitions, it should be emphasized that Dacic was only answering a journalist's question. So, to comment on the choice of Nikolić's holiday destination, presumably because of the Turkish-Bosnian-Kosovo relations, which is the most important and of the highest public interest at this moment to find out, what Dacić thinks about it. The head of diplomacy said that the president should answer that because he chose Turkey, adding that he had not been on vacation for four years, and that he followed the advice of the prime minister to spend the annual vacations in Serbia until the country comes out of the crisis, but "everyone should he works according to his own wishes," he concluded.
Well, it is said that that was the last drop in the bucket of Dačić's name-calling at the expense of Tomislav Nikolić, whether for his own sake or for the sake of Aleksandar Vučić, that is already a Hamlet question. Because for a long time now, it has not been clear which moves the head of diplomacy is making for himself, and which for Vučić. Including the mother swearing at the chief of police.
Anyway, Nikolić also had to answer - at this moment crucially and of course, of public importance - the question of a journalist from Federal TV BiH whether it is true that Ivica Dacic is his most serious competitor in the next presidential elections. And the president, partly because of that of Turkey, partly because of the SPS members' frequent statements that Dacic will one day be the president of Serbia, had to put an end to all those speculations, when the journalist had already nicely asked him: "If in the second year of my mandate, someone starts talking about being the president of Serbia, then something is wrong with him."
According to the same "Kurir" that he cursed so angrily just the other day, Dacic sent a message to President Nikolić, again, of course, "answering a journalist's question": "I don't understand his nervousness after I announced that I will be a candidate for presidential elections. I didn't even say I was going to win. The SPS always had a candidate and what is disputed about that. When he could ask for extraordinary parliamentary elections in the second year of the government's mandate, why can't we talk about presidential elections? It is distasteful that the Bosnian media is talking about it, and that at a time when the whole world is shaking because of the fear of war."
And so, it seems that Dacic is tired of the hot rabbit, the fence with the whips that he passes through every day. The political bazaar speculates that perhaps it was Vučić who intended him for the presidency. Nevertheless, Hashim Thaci thanked both Dacic and Vucic for everything they did for Kosovo with the help of Brussels, Washington and Berlin. Perhaps, unfortunately for Nikolić, there will be those presidential elections. The only thing that matters is who the high priest will support.
