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Shkruar nga Ratko Femiç
The voter list was filled with the dead and people outside the residential centers. Many voters were brought to Belgrade from different areas, even from Milorad Dodik's Republika Srpska...
The day after the election, I met many people who are weighed down by a kind of burden of despair and disappointment. Who will now bear responsibility for the "failure" of the opposition in the elections, not convincing the citizens to vote? The turnout on Sunday was not higher than in past elections.
You yourself know the simple answer to these questions. The elections took place in irregular conditions, the pro-regime media boycotted the opposition. The voter list was filled with the dead and people outside the residential centers. Many voters were brought to Belgrade from different areas, even from Republika Srpska to vote for Vucic's party. There was pressure, blackmail, bribery and duplication of voter lists.
While opposition leaders and citizens are trying to protect the will of the voters, it remains to be seen whether they could do better.
The leaders of the pro-European opposition have a suitable alibi to avoid responsibility because with the "Serbia against violence" list they achieved the best result in the last 20 years. But that was not enough. The result of the SPN, despite all the sabotage and the favor of national television for the Serbian Progressive Party, is a serious achievement.
Could the opposition do better?
It may also be that this list is known more as "Serbia Against Violence" and less as "Đila's List". The regime's media cemented this label the day the SSP decided to go with a joint list with the pro-European opposition. The negative assessment of SSP leader Dragan Đilas, who, frankly, did not appear much in the campaign, was used against the SPN, both by the regime and by some opposition parties, bitter that they were left out of the entry agreement. common list.
For that list to be more appropriate to the name it bore, there should have been representatives of the academic community, artists, or doctors and teachers, who would have brought a different spirit.
The effect of that campaign to increase voter participation can hardly be compared to last year's election, when it was 58.6 percent, because then the presidential election was also held, which attracted more people to the polls. Participation was now around 59 percent.
It is unlikely that one day, if the electoral lists are not introduced into more realistic frameworks, we will have a much higher turnout. Serbia officially has about 6.5 million voters, of which almost a million do not vote, live abroad, then of course there are thousands and thousands of dead people on the lists and if the figure of about 5.5 million voters were taken into account, they would come to the conclusion that the actual participation this year was about 70 percent.
For months, Vucic worked for this day. He awarded pensioners, mothers, children, high school students and students. Where necessary, the SNS paid 3,000 dinars for a vote, and to get just three percent more than the SPN in Belgrade, it had to bring up to 40,000 voters, some from the interior of Serbia, some from Republika Srpska, and invitations also came in the names of immigrants. So he was helped by Dodik.
It is a clear signal that the people of Belgrade do not want Vučić or the SNS and that they expect changes. This is another sin of the opposition - why didn't they immediately take to the streets to defend the electoral will of the citizens of Belgrade?
Meanwhile, Vucic will now have to pay for what he promised. And the signals are that this government is unlikely to fulfill its entire mandate. /Adapted "Pamphlet" from " Nova "
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