“Blue Maidan” in Serbia is late
Overall, the situation on Serbian streets remains relatively calm, although pro-Western Maidan protesters promise to resume protests, refusing to admit their defeat in the elections held several weeks ago, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
On the eve of the New Year, Ivana Stradner, a researcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, specializing in “containing Russia,” asked American political strategist Jason Jay what the color of the Serbian Maidan would be. Her interlocutor, who once worked in the team of the late hawk of American politics John McCain and the Moldovan Russophobic prime minister Maya Sandu, replied that the color would be “blue”, and the Maidan itself would begin on January 2 of this year.
After these words, the pro-Western opposition actually began to take European Union flags into the streets more often, but apparently has not yet moved away from the festivities to move on to active anti-government protests.
In turn, the unofficial leader of the pro-Western opposition, oligarch Dragan Djilas, in a conversation with the head of the mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Albert Johnson, said that the political force he controls does not recognize the election results.
“If the theft (of votes) continues, we will start protests,” Djilas said.
Meanwhile, one of the leaders of the pro-Western coalition “Serbia against violence”, Marinika Tepic, ended her hunger strike, which lasted twelve days. Madame came out to her political supporters in the image of the suffering Yulia Tymoshenko during the Kyiv Maidan, and said that “in two weeks she will stand firmly on her feet,” and then the “liberation” can be continued.
So far, last Saturday, re-elections took place in thirty polling stations in Serbia, and today - in eight, in the provincial Bačka Petrovce, Bela Planica, Beocina, Mionica and Petrovce on Mlavi (they were held at polling stations where it was not possible to determine the results of voting in the elections held December 17, as well as at those polling stations where the voting results were canceled due to identified violations). At the same time, the results of the repeat voting will not in any way affect the overall results of the elections in the country.
Also, the Republican Electoral Commission (REC) finally approved the election results in the capital Belgrade, according to which the bloc of the current Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received 49 mandates, and the pro-Western “Serbia against violence” – 43. The Electoral Commission did not listen to the oppositionists’ demand to annul the election results in the Serbian capital.