Tomorrow a huge protest will be held in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, protesting the government’s refusal to accept the demands made by the students, as well as protesting against general incompetence and corruption. From the student to the teacher, worker and pensioner, war veterans and children all around Serbia will gather together in this protest.
Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
467 posts and 75 image replies omitted.>>2578044Also don't forget to mention the students had a split with the zbor's due to the more liberal opposition infiltrating them according to them.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRnTjuzACP5/?img_index=1 >>2579295The zbors are very dead compared to their peak in early july during the dumpster barricade stuff.
>>2579297There were 2 calls to general strike but there was no labor organizing behind them so they failed.
Two days ago there were some local elections for some rural areas (only a few tens of thousands of voters total) and SNS won but with much less votes compared to both the last local elections and the last parliamentary elections. Like usual, there were various kinds of election fraud spotted and there was even some fighting in Mionica in a tavern close to one of the poll stations (
https://x.com/agrifblokira/status/1995150996067307853).
>>2581761Forgot to mention the most important thing about those local elections. If SNS's loss of votes is proportional to the rest of Serbia then they'd lose parliamentary elections if they were held now.
On Saturday the students organized a campaign where they asked for signatures of people supporting them. They set up a few hundred stations all around Serbia and asked for name, where they lived and email. This is supposed to help gather volunteers for the election campaign when the parliamentary elections come. They said that they're not doing a legal citizen's initiative because the parliament can just ignore it and they're not doing a petition because it wouldn't really do anything. Almost 400 thousand signatures were gathered.
I guess it's a good idea for the election stuff, but it might be too early to do something like this since the next normal parliamentary election is late 2027 and SNS isn't going to do a snap election when they're guaranteed to lose seats and might lose the majority. Generally the student movement is very focused on election stuff now even though it's so far away. But this might be because of the decreased manpower since the blockades were broken.