Serbian protests Megathread

[u/BkkGrl]

Serbia is currently experiencing protest and clashes against the government and its police forces.

This thread is to gather all the single pieces of media, pictures and videos.

However every main event and news in the form of link will deserve its own topic.

Thanks for your collaboration

[u/ocd_harli]

Is there a political leader that protesters are supporting? Like, what's the end goal, how does success look like?

[u/Zestyclose-Shower381 → u/ocd_harli]

We, the students made a list of 250 people for national elections, they would be in the parliament. We want early elections. Fair elections. Were preparing to have our people in every voting place there is to stop the election fraud.

[u/ocd_harli → u/Zestyclose-Shower381]

Ah ok, so the goal is to have early elections, that's great.

But can you expand on the 250 people? Is it about elections or to put those specific people in the parliament, or to only have those running?

[u/Zestyclose-Shower381 → u/ocd_harli]

Since english, obviously, isnt my frist language I might not be able to give the best explanation when it comes to certain things.

Since every single higher education institution was blocked by students for about 8 months now, during that time we planned protests and our strategy together, but in a decetralized way. Every department (faculty) of every university had its own "autonomy" to make decisions. Strictly students would gather and make decisions in a democratic way. Basically hold a discussion and make decisions by a simple majority vote.

The media (propaganda) in Serbia is EXTREMELY bad. I dont even know how I would explain it. The state controlled media (90% of total media) in Serbia has been discrediting and lying about every single opposition politician with the simple goal of making it impossible to create a strong opposition against SNS, the ruling party for the last 13 years.

Sadly, the propaganda is so bad and the opposition leaders lost the trust of the people. Justified or not, the students decided that the people on our list must not have major past political activity.

The list we made is still kept a secret. Every faculty voted their candidate based on the number of students that are in that faculty. Basically a few bigger faculties got to choose maybe 3 people at most, but evrey single faculty got to choose at least one candidate. The main criteria we looked for in a candidate is knowledge and experience in their respected fields.

You could probably guess that students from the medical school know very well who could be a good knowledgeable candidate that could bring good changes in the field of health in Serbia. Same goes for every profession and field.

The list would be candidated for the (hopefully) early parliamentary elections, where, if we got a majority of the vote, could start making changes and prosecuting corrupt politicians from the past 20 years.

Vucic, the main leader of the ruling party has accepted every call for early elections in the past because he knew he would win. A bit of propaganda, a bit of repression and propaganda against the opposition and he would have an easy win.

Now, we all know, and the studies of public opinion show that the student list woud get the majority vote, and now, hes delaying the elections as much as he can.

I definitely missed a lot of important information here but i hope this has cleared up some things. Feel free to ask anything :)

[u/ocd_harli → u/Zestyclose-Shower381]

Thanks for the breakdown. I knew most of it as I've been passively following since Novi Sad incident, and I'm well aware of the propaganda, but I did not know about election of potential leaders. At this time, is that a wish list from students, or these people agreed to step up?

[u/Zestyclose-Shower381 → u/ocd_harli]

I dont understand you question fully. Students decided to make a list they woud support when the elections come. We called people we thought would be a good choice, interviewed them together. Discussed and then chose who would be our candidate. The candidates know they could be on the list and agreed with it.

[u/ocd_harli → u/Zestyclose-Shower381]

>  The candidates know they could be on the list and agreed with it.

This was my question, yes. Thanks. And best of luck!

[u/Zestyclose-Shower381 → u/ocd_harli]

Thanks!