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The president of the SNS, who also serves as the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, is generally allergic to any idea of uniting the opposition, and this is one of the few things that worry and scare him. With the fact that now the situation is partly even more unpleasant for him because the steps towards a new unification of the opposition this time come primarily from the “national” and right side of the political spectrum.
And that’s why the division of the existing parties, i.e. their quarreling so as not to form a broad coalition, and pushing new players onto the political scene, will be Vučić’s strategy to relativize the strength of the right, according to Danas interlocutors who we asked if Vučić would try to divide the so-called right such as disunited the so-called civil opposition.
Given that the situation surrounding the settlement of relations with Kosovo has been accelerating in recent months and that the President of Serbia agrees to agreements such as the one from Ohrid on March 18, which the right-wing part of the political spectrum disapproves of and strongly criticizes, a part of the public and voters and sympathizers may be swayed by Vučić’s decisions. That’s why that part of the opposition can, if not significantly, reduce his rating and current positions.
And that is why the question arises whether, on the eve of the new elections, Vučić will try to use political engineering to introduce new players on the right who would take away voters from the right and disunite the so-called patriotic state-building block in which the New DSS, Dveri, Zaventici and POKS are, since they are from one opposition column in which both the right and the so-called left would fit, there is nothing for a long time, and the civil opposition itself is at odds with each other and will go to the elections in several columns.
Political analyst Dragomir Anđelković says for Danas that Vučić is a skilled technologist of political divisions, and in support of his skill of this kind is the terrifying control of the media, special services and finances.
- In such circumstances, he relatively easily, using our proverbial big ego that comes to the fore especially in the political sphere, divides and confronts parties and groups that he considers dangerous for his power. He has already done this to a large extent with the former great Democratic Party in the center of the political scene, while on its right side it prevents any permanent grouping of actors who have more or less the same ideological orientation and it would be logical for them to integrate or at least appear in a large coalition – he explains.
According to him, now that he intends to carry out Kosovo’s capitulation and hence he is especially afraid of the reaction of the nationally oriented part of the citizenry, Vučić will intensify his destructive actions right there, because he is dangerous forces that can articulate the expected dissatisfaction of a significant part of the public.
- In addition to the division of existing political factors, Vučić will also be used by placing new forces that he either controls in some way (money, services, media) or just plays on the vanity of those who think similarly to the emphatically patriotic parliamentary parties but have not found a personal identity within them. satisfaction – Anđelković estimates.
As he adds, the division of the existing parties, that is, their quarreling so as not to form a broad coalition, and pushing the mentioned new players onto the political scene, will be Vučić’s strategy for relativizing the power of the right.
- The sad chaos that he planned to create there aims to make many voters hate the very thought of going to the polls, that is, in conditions when a large number of factors will fight – insulting each other and being demonized by the regime’s propagandists – for a limited the voting body, so that as many of them as possible do not pass the census and thus through the consequent redistribution of mandates, the electoral cake of the SNS or more precisely the movement that Vučić is creating now with the intention of being an umbrella for his already exhausted party in the elections – says Anđelković.
And political analyst Đorđe Vukadinović thinks similarly.
He says that Vučić is generally allergic to any idea of uniting the opposition and that this is one of the few things that worry and scare him.
- And all such attempts or even hints in that direction, he tries by all means to make senseless and torpedo. And in that, he is always helped, directly or indirectly, by some from the official opposition – he states.
He indicates that there should be no doubt that it will be the same this time.
- With the fact that now the situation is partly even more unpleasant for him because the steps towards a new unification of the opposition this time come primarily from the “national” and right side of the political spectrum, which could be a lure for at least a part of the SNS voters. Because not a single Vučić voter will certainly vote for Đilas, Ponoš, Lutovac or Pavle Grbović, but for example Milica Đurđević and Miloš Jovanović (or Boško Obradović) could theoretically. Especially if they are united and act as a serious political force – explains Vukadinović.
Hence, he concludes, the regime’s nervousness, and so many attacks on this very national part of the political scene.
