Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić stated tonight that “nothing will come” of the student protest in Belgrade on Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day), adding that, as he put it, “those who organize it have no chance whatsoever.”
He told Prva TV that the state knows how to protect both itself and the people, and that he hopes it won’t have to demonstrate this, although, as he said, it’s possible that the organizers “will provoke incidents.”
“This Vidovdan will be a Vidovdan of victory; they have no chance whatsoever… no matter how many of them come and how angry they are,” said Vučić.
According to him, their external support and homogenization are declining, money is dwindling, and the segment of the Serbian population that was approaching them is now moving away, and increasingly so.
He also assessed that those gathered on Vidovdan would try to provoke the police and block intersections, and when the host remarked whether they would do the same with Radio Television of Serbia, he ironically asked why and if they needed help.
Vučić said that the state does not want to use force, and noted that state authorities must take care of every citizen and, as he put it, every blockader. He said that today “16 of them blocked key streets for Belgrade traffic, at the corner of Kneza Miloša and Nemanjina streets,” and that the police did not remove them.
“We want to show people what this is about, that some people have no shame, that they are recklessly insolent. That this politics is a politics of destroying Serbia,” he said.
According to him, the authorities want not to use force “until the last moment,” and that “they will allow everything that can be allowed.”
“They are falling in every sense; they can no longer threaten the state. The question is to try to save those young people… I must also take care of those who occupy intersections,” he said.
“Elections Will Be Held in December 2026”
He stated that he “is guided by the interests of the people and the state.”
“It’s not in the interest to have elections now,” Aleksandar Vučić said, adding that elections will be held in December 2026, when everything is ready for the Expo, because, “he doesn’t want the state to be disgraced.”
“They start from themselves; they want to seize power, and they don’t care about the state,” said Vučić, who reminded that after the last elections in December 2023, he said that there would be a full government mandate due to the specialized exhibition,” said the President of the Republic.
He does not expect changes in the results of the local elections in Kosjerić, although a court has ruled that voting should be repeated at one polling station.
The coalition around the Serbian Progressive Party won 14 mandates in the local elections, and the opposition won 13 mandates in the Kosjerić Assembly, but the Užice court annulled the voting at one polling station.
Vučić said that at that polling station, it is “theoretically possible but not realistic” for the opposition to win enough votes for victory (in the complete elections in Kosjerić).
“They annulled it, and now they should win, instead of by 100 – by 150 (votes) difference, which won’t be easy for them. That cannot change anything,” said Vučić.
Source: 021, Photo: ATA Images
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