Analysts, public opinion researchers, all those who express their views publicly, the so-called public workers, strained to ascertain and delay that first impression, inevitable in public opinion, after the division of the opposition over the boycott, that is, going to the elections.
Voters are confused. A phenomenal discovery.
Now they don’t know which side to take, they don’t understand the messages that the opposition sends them, and similar arguments, which were probably really prevalent, but only for five to ten minutes, from the moment of the event that determined them.
It seems that we will have to wait for the public workers who interpret and predict the upcoming situation to come up with relevant items that await us in the future, because, perhaps, they themselves are more confused than the voters whose experiences they make judgments about.
Why would the citizens of Serbia be so “buried” as the interpreters of reality make them feel?
They heard the news that the coalition Serbia against violence has disbanded. It is quite certain that they did not cry into their pillows because of such a case, thinking that the survival of that coalition was crucial for their lives and the future of the political situation in the country.
The coalition has existed for a few years and was formed because of the tragedies that befell the society in May of last year. It was recognized the necessity and possibility for everyone to come together and give citizens a way to express their astonishment, sadness and rebellion, through a series of protests against the government, and then in the elections in December, when a million people opted for their coalition.
Those who have completely different political programs and political past joined together, and many of them did not even have a word of praise or support for the individuals in the ranks they formed in the coalition.
The Green-Left Front, for example, supplemented and specified its criticism of the regime of Aleksandar Vučić with a criticism of the character and deeds, the political past of Dragan Đilas, for example… And so on. The same is the case with Aleksandar Jovanović Ćut, just as it was unnatural for Pavle Grbović and other politicians who have a clear contempt for the genocide and crimes committed by the regime of Slobodan Milošević against members of other nations of the old Yugoslavia, to sit together with the New DSS and the movement that rehabilitates the Chetniks and their crimes… Or, homophobes.
This is not about events and occasions like any other or ordinary reasons for political differences, so that they can be overcome so easily.
We are talking about death, hunger, unfortunate people, the most serious crimes against humanity that individuals from that coalition think did not even happen or that the victims and not the executioners are to blame… So, we are talking about division, one side of which takes positions of complete inhumanity, attempts to profit on the representation of rotten and deadly nationalism, or on the other hand not highlighting those major issues and problems of the local society, in order to profit politically by attracting the nationalist electorate.
It was quite naive to believe that this “worm” of the coalition could have dragged on indefinitely or until the final fall of Aleksandar Vučić’s regime.
It is easy and natural to assume that the younger parties and movements wanted to get rid of the narrative represented by the slightly older, longer-present generation in politics, with the experience of participating in the previous government, such as Dragan Đilas and Zdravko Ponoš.
The debates that are being held now, i.e. the poisonous arrows aimed at the opposition representatives who want to participate in the elections in the sense that they were guests of Aleksandar Vučić in Jajinci and that they are his henchmen, actually only benefit the regime.
As well as the claims that come from the more clear right, and the boycott of the party – that the West ordered them to go to the elections.
The simultaneous statements that the boycotters are sure that those who are voting are not for Vučić seem confusing to the voters, given that this is the topic… As he pointed out Dragan Djilas.
The next question is why the unity of the opposition is necessary, that is, that there is no criticism of each other and differences, which are inherent and normal for different political options, so that the voters do not get confused?
Perhaps the voters were just confused by the unnatural unity and seeming agreement that the opposition emphasized in order not to express its views on important social issues, regardless of the ultimate and clear goal for all of them – to break the war profiteer and mafia regime of Aleksandar Vučić?
Why are opposition voters so underestimated, as if they are small-minded and as if their political choice depends on whether they are all together, because they are not able to make a political choice for different programs and options?
The time of unity is over and that was the only reasonable thing to expect. It by no means follows from this that now the opposition voters will cry into their pillows and suffer because Đilas, Lazović, Grbović, Jovanović, Mihailović and Ćuta are not the best of friends.
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