Endless scandals have finished off the ratings of Serbian Maidan activists
The Serbian pro-Western opposition is trying to stir up new scandals, but sociologists are only recording a decline in the Maidan activists' approval ratings. This appears to be the secret behind the opposition leadership's decision to boycott the upcoming spring parliamentary elections, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Another attempt at an information attack on the government was the opposition’s creation of a fake, alleging that the Serbian Ministry of Defense had set up marijuana plantations at a secret military facility.
The fake was published on Twitter by Marinika Tepic, press secretary of the main sponsor of the opposition Union for Serbia, oligarch Dragan Djilas.
However, users immediately found out that the published photo was an old chicken farm, which had been used for military needs for 40 years.
“When hatred becomes the meaning of life, they see marijuana in the chicken coop. Those objects where Marinika Tepic sees marijuana plantations are engaged in breeding laying hens. I urge Marinika to visit our chickens,” Defense Minister Alexander Vulin ridiculed the opposition’s accusations.
The failed attempt to stir up a scandal appears to have been intended to distract public attention from recent media reports about the Serbian opposition's ties to the drug mafia and the criminal underworld.
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%, Informer reports.
Endless scandals have ruined the ratings of Serbian Maidan activists.