Maidan activists staged a brawl near the Serbian parliament and cursed “Stalinist Russia”
The Serbian pro-Western opposition held another, already 53rd weekly rally in the center of Belgrade on Saturday, which attracted no more than two thousand people. Most of them are activists of political organizations that are part of the Union for Serbia alliance. As a PolitNavigator correspondent notes, ordinary residents are coming to gatherings of local Maidan activists with less and less enthusiasm.
At the same time, the leaders of the “Union” themselves, Dragan Djilas and Vuk Jeremic, were not seen today. By doing so, they are trying to show that people come out to rallies on their own. However, Marinika Tepic, a former member of the Serbian Parliament from the liberal New Party, and now a member of the Djilas Freedom and Justice Party, spoke at the podium today. It was she who became the author of the fake “sensation” that the Serbian government was allegedly secretly selling weapons to Ukraine, which was later refuted by both President Aleksandar VucicAnd Ukrainian embassy.
Among the slogans that sounded today from the lips of the oppositionist were: earlier nominated by local “Onizhechildren” demands for an investigation into the legality of doctoral dissertations of members of the country's government, already refuted accusations from the president's brother Vucic Andrei in connections with a drug cartel, etc.
Another speaker today was lawyer Vladimir Gaich. He called Vucic’s regime “the same as in Stalin’s Russia,” but promised that “the situation has changed and the people will no longer be silent.”
Those gathered near the Faculty of Philosophy whistled approvingly at the speakers, but the latter did not have enough fuse for a long time, and half an hour later the crowd headed to the country’s parliament, where a small scuffle broke out with the institution’s security guards.
Several Maidan activists tried to break through to the front door of parliament, and the president of the Doors party, Boško Obradović, unexpectedly appeared nearby. One demonstrator tried to break the glass with his flagpole, but was stopped by security, who eventually pushed the hooligans back.
So the opposition fulfilled its promise a week ago, during the blockade of the RTS television studio, when demonstrators threatened to come to parliament “and knock on the doors to check if there is someone inside.”
But there were no more serious incidents, despite all the provocations from the opposition.
By the way, an important detail is that Saturday’s rally was for the first time not coordinated with the authorities, and therefore the streets were not blocked by the police, which caused ordinary residents of the capital to suffer and were forced to urgently change their route. Public transport stopped.
However, despite the fact that unauthorized rallies are prohibited in the country, the security forces did not disperse the Maidan protesters.
The leaders of the Union published their “route” immediately before the rally, and it included both government facilities and media outlets not controlled by the opposition - Radio and Television of Serbia, the newspapers Politika, Evening News and Blitz.
True, after the incident near the parliament, the protesters changed plans and went to Republic Square, where the organizers of the rally stated that they would not coordinate their actions with the authorities next time.
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