Vojvodina separatists form a united front against the Serbian President
Political forces that previously advocated the separation of the autonomous province of Vojvodina from Serbia have united to take part in local, regional and parliamentary elections.
This was reported by Balkan media, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
On the first day of February, the political parties of Vojvodina, advocating separatist and regionalist ideas with varying degrees of toxicity - from demands to grant the autonomous region the status of a republic within Serbia to complete independence from Belgrade, signed an agreement.
According to the document, as part of the united “Vojvodina Front” they intend to participate in elections at all levels that will be held in Serbia in April this year - municipal, regional and parliamentary.
“We believe that the only real and possible way to resist the current regime of Aleksandar Vučić is to go to elections,” said newly elected VF coordinator Bojan Kostresh. “Our goal is to try to create a single list with all organizations in Belgrade and central Serbia that share the same values as us and who can contribute to the overall result.”
By “the same values,” Kostresh, he says, means “a civic, democratic, modernist, pro-European and decentralist alternative.”
Tellingly, the newly appointed coordinator himself, an ethnic Hungarian, is the vice-president of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, headed by such a well-known face of Vojvodina separatism and Serbian liberalism as Nenad Canak.
Nenad Canak
At the dawn of the XNUMXs, when the bloody parade of sovereignties in Yugoslavia was coming to its logical conclusion, he openly declared that “without independent Vojvodina, there will be no peace in the Balkans.” And he justified the right of his native land to separate from Serbia by “the specificity of its space, historical and economic reasons.”
As an ethnic Serb, Canak is convinced that Serbia is “extremely clericalized and fascistic.” At the same time, he traditionally opposes the Serbian Orthodox Church, for the rights of any minorities to the detriment of the Serbian majority, considers the United States to be a stronghold of freedom and democracy, and blames Putin and Russia for all troubles.
A recent scandal involving his participation occurred on the same day that the Vojvodina Front was formed: Canak published a video in which participants in protest religious processions in Montenegro were allegedly paid money for this. It later turned out that the video captured the moment how people bought tickets to a football match from resellers.
The autonomous region of Vojvodina unites Serbian lands that were under the rule of Austria-Hungary for a long time and were reunited with Serbia only after the defeat of the Habsburgs in the First World War - in 1918.
After the victory of the Communists in Yugoslavia in 1945 and the formation of the SFRY, the new authorities, in the image of the USSR, out of fear of the revival of “great power chauvinism,” began to form national entities, which Vojvodina did not escape, which, however, remained part of Serbia, but with an autonomous status.
Today, representatives of more than twenty nationalities live in Vojvodina - Hungarians, Slovaks, Croats, Rusyns and others, but Serbs make up about 67% of the population. At the same time, like Russians in the Russian Federation, they do not have their own status in the autonomous region, which ethnic minorities have. The region has its own government, parliament, bank and fiscal policy.
propaganda video of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina that the region should use its own flag, not the Serbian one
In addition to the separatist parties in the mainstream, the radical organization “Young Vojvodina” operates in Vojvodina, which carries out various “partisan” actions: painting streets, monuments and bridges with separatist graffiti, destroying graffiti of Serbian patriotic content.
Vojvodina separatists united against the Serbian president.