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Opposition Announces Radicalization of Protests, Vucic Says Street Blockades Will Not Be Tolerated

Politiko 20 Mars 2019, 11:36

Opposition Announces Radicalization of Protests, Vucic Says Street Blockades

The opposition leaders announced on Tuesday the possibility of rising their protests in Serbia and throughout Serbia “to the next level” through various forms of civil disobedience, but in response to that, President Aleksandar Vucic said that the state would not allow a burst into the pro-government Pink television nor the blockade of streets.

The change of tactics was announced on Nasa television by the leader of the People’s Party Vuk Jeremic, who did not wish to give a more precise definition of what the introduction of civil disobedience into the protests throughout the country would imply.

“This is not the last level, there will be additional levels. I would like for Vucic to wake up tomorrow morning and say that he will take a different stand. I believe that this is not highly likely. Therefore I believe that these protests will cross onto a higher and higher level which will at one moment begin to imply various forms of civil disobedience, such as the blocking of streets, institutions, the interruption of lectures at universities, etc”, Jeremic said.

The leader of the conservative movement Dveri, Bosko Obradovic, said that the protests of the opposition last weekend in Belgrade showed that the Serbian President “functions only under pressure” and that the opposition believed that nothing more could be achieved through the institutions.

“The [institutions] are no longer functioning, neither the Constitutional Court, nor the parliament, or the police, the courts and the only way of fighting for our rights is to go on extra-institutional paths”, Obradovic said.

He said that the opposition would continue with all forms of protests, demonstrations and the blocking of institutions and as the first move he announced a rally which the opposition leaders would hold in front of the Grocka municipality building, so as to demand the resignation of the president of that Belgrade municipality Dragoljub Simonovic, who is suspected of being behind the order to set fire to the house of a journalist of a local portal.

Obradovic underlined that one of the protest walks would be directed towards Pink TV, “the heart of the propaganda of the current authorities”.

“We shall rally again around the Radio Television Serbia (RTS) just as we shall gather around Pink TV and we shall not desist from this. For three months we tried other ways, we have been protesting in a cultured and peaceful manner, but they will not hear us. They ignore our requests, make us look like fools and it’s time to stop with that”, Obradovic said.

Since its founding in 1994, Pink TV has enjoyed a bad reputation for promoting trash esthetics and poor taste, but still more for unquestionably putting itself in the service of every ruling echelon, from Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s to Vucic in the past seven years.

Under Vucic, however, Pink reached a new low in the defamation of his political opponents and everyone who dares to publically criticize him.