The team that entered the National Assembly and the Assembly of Belgrade on the list of Branimir Nestorović quarreled among themselves. The media is following the conflict like a soap opera, and it seems that the main actors met in front of the studio during the filming of Milomir Marić's "Ćirilica"
The group of citizens "MI - Voice of the People" is one of the biggest surprises of the December elections. And it never ceases to amaze. The movement, founded by the controversial pulmonologist Dr. Branimir Nestorović, managed to win enough votes for both the Belgrade and the republican parliaments. And then it started to crumble and split. The whole thing looks like a soap opera or a reality show right now, and knowing the actors, it wouldn't be a surprise if they called the audience and resolved the conflict by SMS voting.
The breakup began with a conflict with the holder of the Belgrade list, Aleksandar Jerković. In fact, it started with the statement of Toma File, a candidate for mayor from the list of the Socialist Party of Serbia, who announced at the end of January that the SPS and the Serbian Progressive Party would easily form a city government if one or two individuals from the group of citizens "Mi - Glas iz people". Then, from this movement on social networks, they themselves pointed the finger at Aleksandar Jerković, who at one point called "We" a coalition, so they reminded him that they are a group of citizens. Then Jerković clarified that he is the leader of the movement "There is no turning back, Serbia is behind", but the fact is that he was not on the city electoral list as a representative of the movement, but as an individual.
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By the way, Jerković is a man with a long but unremarkable political career. A mechanical engineer by profession, majoring in weapons, he appears in the political life of Serbia in 2022 as an adviser to the late general Božidar Delic (the one who cried when Šešelj and Toma Nikolić broke up). After crying, Delić walked along the SRS-SNS route, in order to cross paths with both his loves in 2020. With former radical Nemanja Šarović, he founded the movement "Love, faith, hope" with the slogan "There is no turning back, Serbia is behind". Then Jerković joins them.
In the 2022 parliamentary elections, he was 23rd on the "Dr. Miloš Jovanović - Hope for Serbia" list. Delić and Jerković were representatives of the Bunjevac national minority party "Bunjevci, Citizens of Serbia" (BGS).
After Božidar Delić passed away in August of that year, Jerković became a deputy in the Serbian Parliament as the next representative of BGS. At the end of 2022, Jerković stated that the parliamentary club of the NADA coalition was disbanded and that a new one was formed in which there would be no "No turning back, Serbia is behind" movement. NADA announced that Jerković was excluded because he did not respect the coalition. Since then, he has been acting as an independent representative. That is, he was trying to perform. He is most active on the social network Tiktok, and here and there he appears in some obscure podcasts on YouTube. In one of them, in 2021, he said: "For the last 20 years, I have been dealing with elections and campaigns. I had the opportunity of a lifetime to get an education in that field abroad. I worked professionally for many years for many parties in Serbia, some of them are now former".
Jerković's only TV appearance that is remembered is the intrusion into the direct inclusion of N1 reporter Dimitrije Đurić from the May protests "Serbia against violence". Đurić was taking a statement from another interlocutor in the live program when Jerković rushed in front of the camera, approached and shouted: "Does anyone care what the independent MP has to say?" The reporter asked him not to interfere with his work, and the gathered citizens surrounded the TV crew and the interlocutor and thus "neutralized" Jerković.
HOW DO WE KNOW THIS ONE FROM?
GG "Mi - Voice of the People" was founded by seven people: Branimir Nestorović, Aleksandar Pavić, Branko Pavlović, Mitar Kovač, Siniša Ljepojević, Dragan Stanojević and Jovan Janjić.
All seven founders of the movement received parliamentary mandates, along with six other members: Jelena Pavlović, Bogdana Grifit Koljević, Ana Krstić, Ana Ivanović, Borislav Antonijević and Branko Lukić. In total, therefore, 13 deputies. They are currently splitting into two parliamentary clubs and God can no longer understand who is with whom. But let's see who they are first.
Apart from Nestorović, the general public is probably the best known lawyer Branko Pavlović. He has been in political life since 1983, when he became a member of the League of Communists, but that is not interesting. It is interesting how he went from the founder of the Civic Association of Serbia to Nestor. In truth, he left the GSS in 1996 when, together with Žarko Korac, he founded the Social Democratic Union and, as part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, became a councilor in the Belgrade Assembly after the Fifth of October. He was a member of the Serbian Parliament from January 2001 to December 2003, and during that time he was a member of the Committee for Justice and Administration of the Serbian Parliament. From April 2002 to July 2003, he was the chairman of the restructuring subcommittee of JP NIS, and a member of the Management Board of that company from December 2001 to July 2003.
He left SDU in 2003 and formed the Initiative for a normal Serbia, and for several months in 2004 he was the director of the Privatization Agency.
He appeared as the holder of the list of the citizens' group "Zato sto mora bolje" in the parliamentary elections in January 2007. After that, he was not involved in any party until now.
He never spoke about how he got from GSS and SDU, through DOS, to "Mi" and Nestorović's wing, which fosters theories about reptilian people, blue-eyed aliens, the holy land of Russia and the absence of viruses.
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Another name that might be familiar to the general public from somewhere is - Borislav Antonijević, gynecologist-obstetrician employed at GAK "Narodni front". He is also the favorite member of the "MI - Voice of the People" movement of the author of this text, but the effort to remain objective must prevail.
The general public became aware of Antonijević around the same time as ivermectin, a veterinary drug that people only use if they get scabies. Together with Valentina Arsenijević, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, Borislav Antonijević was a member of the Viber groups "Ivermectin" and "Doctors and Parents for Science and Ethics", which promoted the treatment of Covid-19 with ivermectin.
There was everything and anything in that group, from advice on where and how to get the medicine, how to lie in a veterinary pharmacy that you have a horse in order to be given the medicine, to terrifying testimonies of people who miscalculated the doses (the dilution formula was given by the doctors), and had problems with the gall bladder and white stools. Antonijević has been a guest in the media several times as a representative of this group, and today a video is circulating on the Internet in which he makes fun of the booster dose of vaccines against the corona virus. Namely, the citizens of Serbia could receive a booster dose three times (after the initial first two), so Dr. Antonijević called the second booster "bubuster", the third "bububuster", and then mocked how we would get to the "bububububububuster" dose.
In the midst of the chaos surrounding Europride in September 2022, Antonijević was invited to TV Kurir to speak about a hot topic, in which function it is unclear, so he managed to create chaos in the studio by clashing with the then director of Belgrade Pride, Marko Mihajlović.
"Now the program of this event has been released, where it says that schools, kindergartens, monasteries, institutions will be visited. We have three textbooks where homosexuality is affirmed. They ask that children change their gender at the age of 13,14 or XNUMX. It's like if we let them drive a car", said Antonijević.
Upon Mihajlović's remark that this was not true, Antonijević continued: "I cannot allow unnatural things to be promoted here", to which the interlocutor told him that he should immediately return his doctoral license to the chamber.
"Homosexuality was and remains a disease. And of course, it can be treated like any disease", Antonijević said. He also added that in Serbia no one has ever been beaten for being gay, but such incidents "just happen".
But that's not the end of Antonijević's bizarre views. Just because he doesn't understand homosexuality doesn't make him unique. The idea of banning premarital sex and the reasoning behind it, however, is quite unique in Europe.
So he says: "As far as I'm concerned, I'm in favor of banning premarital relations." I am in favor of them getting married as early as possible, having children as early as possible, creating a family and never getting divorced. I would introduce what was introduced by the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko - that every married couple starting a family receive 60.000 euros from the state for the purchase of an apartment. With the fact that I would extend his decision to have each spouse return the same amount to the state upon divorce. In fact, the spouse who caused the divorce must pay back double the amount. Well, that's how I would do it, so we wouldn't get divorced or get married out of stupidity," said Antonijevic in the conservative podcast "Dialog" in January of last year.
In the Belgrade elections, held in April 2022, he was a candidate for mayor of the "Boško Obradović - Serbian Movement of Doors - POKS - Miloš Parandilović - Patriotic Block for the Reconstruction of the Kingdom of Serbia" list.
Antonijević became a councilor in the Assembly of Belgrade, but quickly changed his mind. A year and a half later, Antonijević stated that he parted ways with this party because of the "morally unacceptable" coalition with Zavetniki.
EPISODE ROLES
Only a little is known about the other deputies of Nestorović's team, but it is not boring. Except when it comes to Ana Ivanovic - all that is known about her is that she is a chemical technician. Bogdana Grifit Koljević is a doctor of philosophy and the daughter of Nikola Koljević, a politician, Shakespeare scholar and the first vice-president of the Republic of Srpska, where Professor Grifit Koljević is much more present in the public eye than is the case in the state where she is now a member of parliament.
Dragan Stanojević is a man with a strange biography, with affairs in Russia and Ukraine, and just 9 days before the elections, Free Europe announces: "A representative office of the Russian non-governmental organization 'The Second Ukraine' was registered in Serbia, which was founded by Viktor Medvedchuk, a former Ukrainian a politician accused of treason. This organization was headed by Dragan Stanojević, a candidate for the deputy of Serbia, who publicly supports Russian aggression against Ukraine".
Siniša Ljepojević is a journalist. He spent most of his career at the Tanjug News Agency, as a journalist and correspondent from Great Britain. He lives and works in Belgrade and London. He has published several books, including: EU against Europe: the rise and fall of the European Union, Prince Arsenije Karađorđević, Changes, lies and fear: diaries of the modern world, The Brexit revolution, The hidden reality of Kosovo.
Branko Lukić is a lawyer, by the way, the defense attorney of Ratko Mladić.
Mitar Kovač is a retired Major General of the Serbian Army, and he was a defense expert at the trial of Ratko Mladić.
Jovan Janjić is a doctor of cultural sciences. From 1990 to 2010, he worked as a journalist for the weekly NIN. In 2008, he served as a media adviser at the Ministry of Religion. From August 2011 to November 2013, he was the general director of IP "Prosveta" ad Belgrade in restructuring, where he simultaneously performed the duties of editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of this publishing company. From August 1, 2011 until today, he has been the director of the Company for foreign and domestic trade and financial mediation "Prosveta trade" AD Belgrade.
Aleksandar Pavić lived in the USA until 1990, then returned to Belgrade. The further course of his career is not very verifiable, but here is what can be found:
"At the beginning of the civil war in Yugoslavia, he returned to Serbia. He was an advisor to the President of Republika Srpska, Biljana Plavšić, and an associate of the Russian portal Strategic Culture Fund. He is a columnist for numerous Serbian media, including Novi Standard and RT Balkan. He is a frequent interlocutor of Sputnik Serbia. Vuk Drašković is reputed to be one of the founders of the Belgrade Committee of the Serbian Reconstruction Movement, together with journalist Dejan Lučić and Knindža commander Dragan Vasiljković 'Captain Dragan'. It was also mentioned in the context of participating in bringing Vasiljković to the battlefield in the Republic of Srpska Krajina." The book The forbidden truth about Srebrenica manual based exclusively on foreign sources published in 2007.
Jelena Pavlović is a lawyer from Belgrade and in the current conflict she is on Nestorović's side. With him are also Pavić, Borislav Antonijević, and maybe Branko Lukić, Ana Ivanović and Bogdana Grifit Koljević. The second caucus would consist of the five founders of the movement: Ljepojević, Kovač, Pavlović, Stanojević and Janjić and Ana Krstić.
And Nestorović's stream will go to consultations with Vučić because he is the holder of the list.
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