Serbian Maidan activists played informers
Last Saturday, another regular street protest of the Serbian opposition took place in Belgrade under the slogan of a boycott of the parliamentary elections scheduled for spring.
The organizer of the procession, Valentina Rekovich, addressed the few gathered. She rejected participation in the campaign, even if the threshold for parliamentary elections in Serbia is reduced to 3%.
“Aleksandar Vucic, we don’t need your late New Year’s gifts, and we reject them. You can give us 0,1 percent or 15 percent, it doesn't matter to us. We don’t need anything from you,” Rekovich said.
The march of several hundred Maidan protesters followed the traditional route - first past media editorial offices that refused to support the opposition, where those gathered put up stickers accusing them of “censorship.”
Then opponents of the authorities approached the presidential palace, where a girl and a young man separated from the crowd, posing in front of Western media cameras, began knocking on the doors, and the rest chanted slogans against Vucic.
The security of the residence of the head of state, represented by women, did not interfere with the opposition’s performance, which obviously upset the plans of the organizers interested in a picture with clashes and “repressions.”
As PolitNavigator reported, the popularity of the Serbian opposition is steadily declining. According to the latest published poll conducted by the American National Democratic Institute (NDI) with the participation of USAID, support for the Union for Serbia alliance was only 6% (a few months ago, measurements showed a figure twice as high).
At the same time, the popularity of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, led by the country's leader Aleksandar Vucic, is more than 50%.
It seems that this is precisely the secret of the decision of the top opposition to boycott the upcoming spring elections.
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