Jovo Bakić: Vučić and his servants lost touch with reality – Politics

If Aleksandar Vučić believes that the economic situation and the standard of living were key to the collapse of the Milošević regime, then he is wrong, assessed the sociologist Jovo Bakić of the Radical Left Party for Danas.

More important were the electoral robberies of 1996 and 2000, in which the SPS was caught, but also the support of the great powers and the wealthy of the opposition in the following year, Bakic said, in response to a question about the declaration of the Serbian president that today is a revolution. October 5, impossible due to a much better standard of living.

Aleksandar Vučić also said that “many politicians in Serbia” are calling for further changes for October 5 “because Serbia is the first in Europe in terms of growth rate and has a stable dinar exchange rate.”

– The desperate standard of living of citizens is certainly a necessary condition, but there are other conditions, which I have already mentioned, as well as some others, such as the disobedience of the army and the police. By the way, even today, life is not very good in Serbia, despite the government’s belief that we are witnessing the “golden age”, says Jovo Bakić for Danas.

This conviction, he adds, is an indicator that the president of the SNS and his servants in the authoritarian-mafia regime have lost their compass or contact with reality, which the opposition would have done, provided it was not theirs (Vučić probably did a change from Milošević). , you could open the door to change the mode.

– Citizens do not complain when their intestines hurt and when they have to work more to survive, so they do not have time to dedicate themselves to politics, but when they realize that they are taken advantage of to do more work at the same time so that don’t have time for your own lives. Therefore, at a more substantial level, the most important thing is when citizens understand that capitalism is taking its own life and that Vučić, after all, like some opponents, is a relatively successful agent of the capitalist oligarchy – concludes Jovo Bakić for our article.

Lana Avakumović, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Talas, said in a statement to Danas that, given Vučić’s role in the 1990s, his need to humiliate the actors and events of 2000 and try to relativize the role is understandable. importance of the changes of October 5.

– If we talk about the possibilities of regime change and change today, the economic aspect is important: Serbian citizens live on average significantly better than in the 1990s, it is easier to leave the country or even work for foreign companies from Serbia with less political influence in everyday life. Dissatisfaction is much lower, and therefore, the motivation of citizens to be politically active or participate in demonstrations and other protest actions – believes the interlocutor of our newspaper.

As he adds, the “puzzle” of October 5 contained numerous actors and conditions that led to Milosevic’s downfall, and Vucic understands and controls and successfully quells all possible sources of resistance to his personal regime: opposition, civil society, media. communication, international actors, etc. .

– Some further changes to the elections will depend on numerous factors, and the economy may be important due to the regime’s ability to satisfy the clientelistic interests on which it relies heavily, so the economic consequences of the pandemic crisis could affect political dynamics. concludes the deputy director of Talas para Danas.

Tatjana Macura, co-chair of the Modern Serbia Party, points out to Danas that she completely agrees with Vučić’s statement, ungrateful as it is, for various reasons.

– It is true that economic circumstances are completely different. Apart from the mentioned standard of living, which is objectively higher, which again does not mean that it is good and could not have been better, 2000 was the year immediately after the Kosovo war, which Serbia lost. The fresh wounds from the wars of the 1990s as a consequence of Milosevic’s mad nationalist politics have only deepened. Borders were closed, which led to the fact that young people who today leave the country easily, especially students, could not do so easily then and had the motivation and desire to organize and support politicians to change something by going to the urns. Today there are no such young men. Today, they prefer to leave the country than to stay to fight together with those who do not want to deal with the partocracy that is forcing them to leave here, says Tatjana Macura for our newspaper.

Remember that political dissidents were treated in a cruel way, not like the tabloid shots of today.

– I remind you that a potential candidate for president was killed, judges disappeared, journalists were killed. The international community, mainly the EU and the United States, did not support Milosevic for the policy to which he did not surrender, but supported in every way possible those who opposed him because they promised a completely different approach to solving, above all, the problems. regional problems. All this is not the case today – concludes Matsura for Danas.

Today’s session of the Presidency of the SNS

The session of the Presidency of the Serbian Progressive Party will be held today in Belgrade, it was announced from that party. The session will begin at 5 pm at the SNS headquarters in New Belgrade and, once it is finished, speeches to journalists are planned. The president of Serbia and leader of the progressives, Aleksandar Vučić, said last Tuesday that the name of the new designated prime minister will be known “in three or a little more days, but certainly less than seven.”

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