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Mass protests, crisis in Kosovo, pressure from the international community. Is the circle narrowing for the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić? And is it really the beginning of the end as the opposition warns?
It has been exactly one month since a 13-year-old committed mass murder at his elementary school. Despite the tens of thousands of weapons that citizens handed over during the state's disarmament action, the protests do not subside.
"Something unimaginable, something so terrible, such as mass crimes, had to happen, to cause such fear, to begin the crowning of that pathological, schizophrenic mosaic of a divided society. And that's because people took to the streets," Perica Gunjic, editor of the Cenzolovka portal, told DW.
One of the organizers of the protest, Radomir Lazovic from the Green-Left Front, says that this time the people on the streets were overcome with emotion.
"We were all concerned that the rapid response of the state that came after the accident - that the system did not fail. There is no way to know a day after the tragedy whether the system failed or not. This caused anger because people saw that nothing important would change," explains Lazovic.
The accumulated problems overflowed
The anger and sadness, however, came after years of frustration and resentment over the affairs of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party: from the collapse in Savamala, to the Krusik helicopter crash, to the assassination of Oliver Ivanović, to suspicions about the connections of the state's leadership with the Veljka Belivuka crime clan, which was recently written about by the New York Times.
Therefore, victorious messages are coming from the opposition. “The criminal octopus SNS has penetrated deep into every pore of our society. To claim that it is over would be too optimistic, but we are certainly seeing the beginning of the end of SNS," believes Lazovic.
Kurt (not) help
Despite everything, it would be too strong to say that the ring around the government is tightening, says the executive director of CeSID, Bojan Klaçar, but the situation is certainly challenging.
Klaçar believes that the biggest problem for Aleksandar Vucic is Kosovo and that the crises there put him in a very difficult position. "Because Kosovo is a topic that will last. Protests, even if they are continuous and massive, have a certain age. Kosovo does not have that century", believes the executive director of CESID.
He recalls that public opinion polls show that Kosovo is climbing up the list of Serbian citizens' priorities this year as well. "And the last thing, the SNS vote in the last elections was mainly related to Kosovo and Russia".
Our interlocutors reject the thesis that the recent incidents in the north of Kosovo were staged to attract public attention.
The citizens are not looking for Vucic, but the media
Sa i përket kërkesave të protestës, përveç largimit të ministres së Arsimit, deri më tani është mbajtur një seancë e jashtëzakonshme e Kuvendit. Qeveria njoftoi me druajtje anulimin e disa reality show-ve, por pa ndalim konkret.
Fakti që mediat janë tema kryesore e kësaj proteste flet vetëm për faktin se qeveria e Aleksandër Vuçiqit ka ndryshuar rrënjësisht dhe tërësisht skenën mediatike në mbarë vendin, shpjegon Gunjiç.
“Qindra miliona euro para të qytetarëve, nga buxheti, u derdhën në media të reja ose relativisht të reja të kontrolluara nga progresistët. Janë krijuar perandori të reja mediatike, manjatë të rinj mediatikë, në çdo pjesë të vendit ka po aq sa duhet që propaganda e qeverisë të arrijë në çdo cep të Serbisë”, tha për DW redaktori i Cenzolovka .
Nuk ka asnjë ndryshim politik
Bojan Klaçar from CeSID does not even believe that the protests will result in new elections, much less the transitional government that is being talked about very loudly. "In Serbia, no matter how massive the protests are, we cannot talk about such a big political crisis that the government would accept political defeat", Klaçar assesses.
Therefore, the opposition is looking for allies in the international community. After a meeting with the European Parliament's rapporteur for Serbia, Vladimir Bilcik, and MP Matjaž Nemec, Lazovic said that they have called on the European Union to take a clear stance on the demands of the protests and the attacks to which different social groups are exposed. /Adapted "Pamphlet" from " Deutsche Welle " in Bosnian language
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