Translation:

Students in Belgrade Blockade Demand Snap Parliamentary Elections

The protesting students in Belgrade have announced that they are calling for early parliamentary elections.

“We demand the immediate dissolution of the National Assembly and the calling of early parliamentary elections in accordance with Article 109 of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia,” the students in blockade posted on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

They believe that democracy is the only proper way out of the crisis.

“We call on the people to support the list to which the students in blockade from all higher education institutions in Serbia will entrust their confidence, so that the scales of justice may tip in favor of truth,” the statement said.

They also emphasized that the roots of government corruption have penetrated too deeply into state institutions, making it impossible for them to carry out their duties independently.

Twitter post of official accounts blockade student movements:

https://nitter.net/studentblokade/status/1919474731696218245#m - Students in blockade (basically news network in a way)

https://xcancel.com/blokada_fpn/status/1919475218327760970#m - Blockade FPN

https://nitter.net/sviublokade_fdu/status/1919475072659566707#m -Blockade FDU

https://nitter.net/etfblokada/status/1919474696195625414#m - Blockade ETF

https://nitter.net/ftn_se_budi/status/1919474870888382871#m - Blockade FTN

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    I’m genuinely very impressed by the momentum of the Serbian student protests. It ain’t easy to keep that energy going

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      I mean, it’s commendable and all, but ultimately it’s just gonna succumb to compromise and politcking. A similar situation happened in Montenegro. There it was right wing clericalists vs. a western backed neolib government (I know, the balkans are fucking weird), and in the end, the western backed dictator is casually enjoying life outside of jail like nothing ever happened. Same thing is gonna happen here, except maybe Vucic will get 5 years in prison (10 max), and everyone will accept the compromise just to get rid of him. Ultimately not much will change, although people might finally be exposed to a capitalist system which cannot justify itself being bad just by being “crony”.

      Edit - Another thing I didn’t mention: This declaration was literally just preceded by some liberal moron professor calling a handful of leftist students the “Khmer Rouge” and being associated with a marginal leftist party in Serbia, which itself he alleges is being financed by the CPC (even though he doesn’t provide any evidence for these claims whatsoever). He made these claims alongside accusations of this “minority” of students “sabotaging” the “majority” from voting to participate in the elections. Did I mention he considers it a bad thing that the students are anti-NATO? (like they didn’t literally bomb the country, how could they possibly dislike them?). Because this request for the elections is gonna be accompanied by a list comprised of professors chosen by their students, there’s a decent chance this fucking charlatan makes it on the list of those 250 professors. Makes me scared of the possibility these professors might be majority pro-EU, which doesn’t bode well for the geopolitics of the country, especially not at this fucking moment.

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        Oh I am not under any delusion that these will lead anywhere too meaningful. Just suprised and impressed they have sustained their movement as long as they have.

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          The funny thing is, up until now, it was a dead man’s race. The students trying to resolve their contradictions of revolutionary fervor and liberally brainwormed non-violence (which has now been resolved by embracing those liberal brainworms and with them, representative democracy) and Vucic, who is just laughably incompetent. Unlike his predecessor Milosevic, he has absolutely 0 backing in any discernible ideology whatsoever, other than pure clientelism and self-interest. His regime is a house of cards, it’s only the students’ disorganization and their fanatic adherence to non-violence that has kept him in the game this long.