The potential of the Serbian putschists has been exhausted
Reputable Serbian politicians come to the conclusion that the current government in Belgrade should not allow a repetition of the scenario of 2000, when the legitimate President Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown.
The Belgrade correspondent of Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes about this in an article devoted to the current anti-government protests in the capital of Serbia.
“Do the demonstrators have a chance to win? Here the formal situation is as follows. According to the latest public opinion polls, the Serbian Progressive Party (it forms the government, and Vucic is its leader) would be supported by more than 50 percent of respondents in the event of early elections. The opposition Union of Serbia would have gained less than 15 percent,” the publication notes.
At the same time, the author points out that this arithmetic can hardly serve as an accurate tool for forecasting tomorrow, since within the protest movement there are ultranationalists who would like to ride the process and turn peaceful rallies into a coup d’etat.
The newspaper points out that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic calls the leaders of the protest movement “fascists” and “swindlers” and, apparently, does not intend to make any concessions to the street.
“The potential of street demonstrations has already been exhausted,” former Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and President of Montenegro Momir Bulatovic told the publication. “I don’t think they will cross the line into violence.” We have already shed enough of our blood.”
In turn, ex-President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic gives a somewhat more cautious forecast.
“Such mass protests are unpredictable. Yes, the authorities have no right to beat peaceful demonstrators. But we cannot allow a repeat of 2000, when the street swept away a legally elected president,” Nikolic sums up.
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