Stojković: the Napredniks are doing today what the radicals did in Zemun in the 90s – Politics

Dragan Stojković, the author of the book on civil resistance to radical government in Zemun in the 1990s, “Occupied city”, said that progressives in Serbia today are doing the same thing that radicals did in Zemun in the last decade of the last century .

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Stojković, who is both a civic activist and editor, said in an interview for the Al Jazeera portal that the SRS in the 1990s was a “pressure cooker” that today became a locomotive of the SNS.

He noted that everything that started in Zemun with urban savagery continued today to a higher level, with the highlight being the “Belgrade on water” project.

Let’s be clear: the vision of ‘Belgrade on water’ is not debatable, it existed many decades ago, but this realization, without respecting basic legal procedures, without professional and public debate, is only a continuation of the violence that began with the construction illegal in and around Zemun. 1997, “Stojković said.

According to him, there is essentially no difference between radicals and progressives, except in the name change of the party and “in the changed suits, the political agenda adopted by neoliberalism which, enriched by nationalism, turns into a variety of modern totalitarianism, personal dictatorship and fascism “.

Stojković recalls that since the beginning of his government in Zemun, the radicals – as progressives are doing today at the state level – “trampled the laws and appropriated the public good, be it the municipal budget, municipal land or commercial premises.” .

“The basic request of the rebellious citizens at that time, gathered in the Alliance of Independent Citizens for Zemun, was to apply the law,” Stojković said.

Dragan Stojković’s recently published book “Occupied City” deals, along with a handful of documents, with the genuine protest of the people of Zemun against the Serbian Radical Party authorities in this municipality from 1997 to 1999.