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[00:00:00] will be told by our meteorologist Bojan
[00:00:02] month, the workers are currently on Lipovčak.
[00:00:04] Good evening, what kind of weather awaits
[00:00:07] us tomorrow on Sunday, and most of
[00:00:11] next week. We are still
[00:00:15] under pressure
[00:00:19] north of the Alps, which is rapidly moving over our
[00:00:22] inland areas bringing a slight
[00:00:26] cooling inland behind the front, intensifying.
[00:00:30] high pressure, so we will continue with
[00:00:34] stable, sunny, warm
[00:00:37] weather, today
[00:00:40] it was hot,
[00:00:43] tomorrow it will not be as hot due to
[00:00:47] the passage of that cold front which will affect most of
[00:00:51] the interior and reduce air temperature,
[00:00:54] thunderstorms are possible tomorrow
[00:00:57] in most of the interior.
[00:01:01] Locally there will be abundant
[00:01:04] rain accompanied by showers of almost tropical
[00:01:08] characteristics. Morning temperatures in
[00:01:11] the interior are finally pleasant for
[00:01:15] sleeping with temperatures below and up to
[00:01:18] 20°C, however, on the Adriatic, it is still
[00:01:22] a very warm night with air temperatures
[00:01:25] from 28 to 29, locally even
[00:01:28] 30° Celsius, which is a consequence of
[00:01:32] the Föhn wind and its heating effect
[00:01:36] on the atmosphere. The highest daily temperatures
[00:01:39] in most of
[00:01:41] like someone to ask that at the interior around 30° while on the
[00:01:44] Adriatic, temperatures will remain up to
[00:01:47] 37. On the northern
[00:01:49] Adriatic, especially in the Podvalebitska coast,
[00:01:53] strong, locally stormy gusts of bura, while
[00:01:57] that bura will slowly spread.
[00:02:00] towards the middle Adriatic, on
[00:02:04] the southern Adriatic, the Lebić wind will blow. Further
[00:02:08] development of the weather situation is again under
[00:02:10] the influence of the arrival of warm air
[00:02:14] of African origin which will again
[00:02:17] move across Italy to reach our regions.
[00:02:20] This cold air which has currently
[00:02:24] slightly moved the heat wave south
[00:02:27] from... "it sailed east
[00:02:31] and affects mainly
[00:02:34] over Russia and
[00:02:36] Ukraine, if we look at
[00:02:39] air temperatures, they will
[00:02:42] drop slightly on Saturday insignificantly inland,
[00:02:46] so we will reach temperatures below 30°, around
[00:02:50] 27, short-term showers and
[00:02:53] thunderstorms can be expected on Saturday, after that
[00:02:56] from Sunday, Monday onwards, temperatures will rise again
[00:03:00] to values of
[00:03:01] 35-36°C,
[00:03:04] which means the heat wave is returning,
[00:03:08] on the Adriatic it's almost as if we won't
[00:03:11] even feel this cooling, a little
[00:03:15] bit on Saturday and
[00:03:19] accompanied by a breeze that will stir up the sea a little,
[00:03:22] so the air temperature, water temperature will drop a little
[00:03:26] due to the rising colder...
[00:03:30] layers from the deep, so we expect
[00:03:33] sea temperatures from 25 to
[00:03:36] 27°.
[00:03:40] In short, variable cloudy weather today
[00:03:43] and tomorrow rare showers and
[00:03:46] thunderstorms, bura and jugo on the Adriatic, a little colder inland, but on
[00:03:49] the Adriatic the heat wave
[00:03:53] continues its effect.
[00:03:56] The ultraviolet index is high and very high, and
[00:03:59] a real change in weather can be expected only in about
[00:04:03] 10 to 12 days.
[00:04:06] Dear viewers, we have reached the end of
[00:05:11] It's time to review the press, that is, to see which topics
[00:05:14] the press is writing about. Our guest this morning is sociologist Ivan Živkov, good day
[00:05:18] to you, thank you for being here, good morning, uh, and
[00:05:22] the news that resonates with
[00:05:24] reason, we can start exactly from
[00:05:27] that, it's the attack on the director and
[00:05:31] professor of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Stevan Filipović
[00:05:34] in the center of Belgrade, he says "hired thugs of the government kicked
[00:05:38] and beat me with a metal chair," several serious
[00:05:42] injuries, which is why the prosecution launched an investigation,
[00:05:45] opposition parties called out and labeled the president of the republic as the main
[00:05:48] inspirer of the attack,
[00:05:50] so
[00:05:53] this is certainly one of the situations
[00:05:57] which, by its very, let's say,
[00:06:00] title, uh must worry
[00:06:03] everyone, you are right, violence
[00:06:06] unfortunately has been present for a very long time in our society,
[00:06:09] our streets, our political sphere, it does not
[00:06:13] subside, it is encouraged from the top
[00:06:15] of power, because it is not sanctioned,
[00:06:19] but encouraged, let's remember the bloody
[00:06:23] shirts and the attack on Borko Stefanović,
[00:06:26] let's remember that writer Vladimir Arsenijević was recently beaten,
[00:06:29] we know that not only is it not sanctioned or those who beat
[00:06:32] people in the streets are not found, but those who were
[00:06:36] caught in the act are even pardoned, for example
[00:06:39] those who... beat up a girl,
[00:06:43] a student some time ago, we know that
[00:06:46] in the end the perpetrators were
[00:06:49] acquitted, is this
[00:06:52] part of some usual, so to speak,
[00:06:56] pre-election movement or
[00:06:59] shall we joke, folklore here? Well, if
[00:07:02] this is before the elections, we can only ask ourselves and
[00:07:06] be afraid of what awaits us when the campaign
[00:07:09] really starts, we see therefore that the thugs.
[00:07:13] "are harnessed, that they are ready, we know that we
[00:07:16] have seen violent scenes during previous election campaigns
[00:07:19] on election day, this act is like some
[00:07:23] military exercise, like some
[00:07:26] warm-up, unfortunately we can expect that
[00:07:29] violence will intensify when
[00:07:33] the election campaign officially begins, that official part is
[00:07:36] actually, how should I say, an additional weight in
[00:07:40] the whole story, since..." "elections are being sought,
[00:07:44] mentioned, announced for quite some time,
[00:07:47] however, apart from some rough outlines, we have
[00:07:50] no uh, no tangible
[00:07:53] timeframe when that could happen, does that actually
[00:07:56] raise some tension in society, how much is society already
[00:08:00] additionally divided and additionally
[00:08:03] burdened by this now actually
[00:08:06] and we actually know when the regular election
[00:08:10] terms are constitutional, legal..." So by
[00:08:12] spring next year we must get a new president
[00:08:16] of the republic, that's what must happen, and
[00:08:19] the opposition, i.e. students and the president of the republic himself
[00:08:23] have repeatedly said that there will also be extraordinary parliamentary elections, so
[00:08:26] in the next ten months we
[00:08:30] will certainly have some kind of voting, now the question
[00:08:33] is whether it will be elections or quasi-elections, but
[00:08:37] I expect to resolve a two-year political crisis.
[00:08:40] "with the caveat that resolution does not mean that
[00:08:43] it will be overcome, mhm, a deep crisis in
[00:08:46] which Serbia can be resolved,
[00:08:49] if there is a change of government, if
[00:08:52] the rule of law functions and if Serbia makes
[00:08:56] certain changes, unfortunately,
[00:09:00] resolution can also be without overcoming the crisis, in such
[00:09:03] a way that it is frozen and prolonged for a longer
[00:09:06] period of time, if the Serbian
[00:09:09] Progressive Party..." Aleksandar Vučić renews his mandate,
[00:09:13] if he truly becomes the new prime minister,
[00:09:17] then we can expect a
[00:09:20] systemic, well I would even call it terror,
[00:09:23] not just repression, something that until now
[00:09:27] was only seen in Asiatic despotisms,
[00:09:30] but given the political character of this government, it
[00:09:34] is not unexpected, especially if it succeeds
[00:09:37] in extending its mandate, to enter the 17th, 18th
[00:09:41] year of rule without real legitimacy, that is,
[00:09:44] to rule without the majority support
[00:09:47] of voters. Uh, how much, you just said in the next
[00:09:51] 10 months we can expect how much we
[00:09:54] as a state, as a society
[00:09:58] are actually ready, able to even
[00:10:02] push through those 10 months to some kind of
[00:10:05] resolution? Is it necessary for it to happen
[00:10:08] earlier? That is now a big question, what we
[00:10:12] saw in the previous two years
[00:10:15] indicated that we are a little bit ready, a little bit not ready, and
[00:10:19] I think that this maneuvering with calling
[00:10:22] elections by the authorities is precisely because such
[00:10:25] information reaches them, that public opinion polls
[00:10:28] show that there are moments when
[00:10:32] the majority of citizens are ready for change, but
[00:10:36] there are some indicators where that enthusiasm for
[00:10:39] change decreases, which gives hope
[00:10:43] to the authorities that with some delay and some good timing
[00:10:47] they can win the next elections. What
[00:10:51] worries me is how those
[00:10:54] who want change behave, honestly I expected
[00:10:58] a more serious reaction
[00:11:01] from people in the judiciary when Mrdić's laws were adopted,
[00:11:05] however, we saw that prosecutors and judges did not react
[00:11:08] much. We now see disciplinary action
[00:11:12] in education, this law
[00:11:15] which is, through the back door, practically without public
[00:11:17] debate, is intended
[00:11:21] to be adopted before the start of the new school year...
[00:11:25] shows that teachers, if they were to, for example,
[00:11:28] stop working as they did in 2025,
[00:11:31] will lose their licenses, which means they will lose not only their jobs,
[00:11:35] but also the possibility to work at all in education, this
[00:11:38] means that very likely under
[00:11:41] fear and under the pressure of that knowledge
[00:11:45] they will not even enter into work stoppages.
[00:11:48] These are all preparations for
[00:11:51] a repression in case of
[00:11:55] disputes over election results.
[00:11:58] Let's do a thought experiment,
[00:12:01] the electoral conditions, and in general the social conditions in Serbia
[00:12:04] are not at all better than they were in the previous
[00:12:08] elections in 2023. One can even say that they have
[00:12:11] worsened due to the campaign of officials, the electoral
[00:12:15] roll, the abuse of resources, the situation in the media,
[00:12:18] the import of voters, everything else we had then, we have now,
[00:12:22] nothing has improved. "We
[00:12:25] know how the majority that protests and
[00:12:28] wants change reacted to repression,
[00:12:31] by withdrawing, uh, I just mentioned the
[00:12:35] judicial sector, and then I mentioned
[00:12:38] education, no one
[00:12:41] went on strike in the public sector, we know
[00:12:44] that hundreds of thousands of people were on the streets, the protests
[00:12:48] lasted for a very long time, not a single public company,
[00:12:52] neither local nor state, managed to organize
[00:12:56] a strike for even two days, so the government is encouraged
[00:12:59] that these people who want change,
[00:13:03] people who do not want to leave their comfort zone,
[00:13:07] who are okay with gathering once a month
[00:13:11] at a large rally in Belgrade or walking in some protest
[00:13:14] marches on Saturday or Sunday evening, but they do not want to leave
[00:13:17] their comfort zone, they do not want to risk their jobs, their
[00:13:21] salaries, this is an indicator that an
[00:13:25] authoritarian violent government can maintain itself in such a way,
[00:13:28] even if it does not have electoral
[00:13:31] legitimacy, I say, a thought experiment, what
[00:13:34] if on election day at 9 PM
[00:13:38] the president, now of the republic, then probably won't be,
[00:13:40] appears and declares an election
[00:13:44] victory, even if he didn't win, what
[00:13:47] awaits us, a reaction on the street where we saw
[00:13:50] that the side that wants change is not ready to respond
[00:13:54] to violence with violence, we also saw that the regime
[00:13:57] is very resilient and capable of enduring
[00:14:00] extremely long and strong pressures of street
[00:14:03] demonstrations, thus entering into that
[00:14:07] phase of frozen crisis, but an unchanged
[00:14:10] government, as in every other case, a frozen situation is not
[00:14:14] a good situation, uh the focus is on security and concrete
[00:14:17] results, writes Politika and says "what does the composite sketch
[00:14:21] of an average Serbian voter look like, living standard is the most important thing that interests
[00:14:25] voters in any part of Serbia," research shows that for
[00:14:28] voters it is much more important to see what has been
[00:14:31] done, interlocutor Predrag Lacmanović says
[00:14:34] for Politika, that at this moment
[00:14:38] do we generally have such frameworks, so
[00:14:42] to speak, programmatic or is
[00:14:45] the atmosphere completely referendum-like when it comes to
[00:14:48] elections? The atmosphere is referendum-like in the part
[00:14:51] of the public that is somehow informed. "However, we
[00:14:55] have at least one third of citizens who are not well
[00:14:59] informed about what is happening in this country, how
[00:15:02] the authorities behave, what are the consequences
[00:15:05] of their actions, and because of that, the election
[00:15:09] result is not what it should be in a democratic world,
[00:15:13] the free expression of the democratic will
[00:15:16] of citizens, it will be a counting of some
[00:15:19] votes, but it will not be real elections, for example
[00:15:23] if I say that it is scandalous..."
[00:15:25] The fact that Veselin Milić returned to work while
[00:15:29] Katarina Petrović is still
[00:15:31] suspended is a problem because
[00:15:35] at least a third of Serbia's citizens, due to their
[00:15:38] misinformation, have no idea who Veselin
[00:15:41] Milić is, who Katarina Petrović is, or why it's a problem that he
[00:15:44] returned to work while she's still suspended. How can we even talk
[00:15:48] about elections in such conditions and what's important to the voter?
[00:15:52] That's not a voter because they're not properly informed.
[00:15:55] Uh, to what extent can
[00:15:58] the announced visit of Volodymyr Zelenskyy to
[00:16:02] Belgrade be equated? Can that
[00:16:06] have a connection with the elections? It certainly has
[00:16:09] a connection with some international position
[00:16:12] of Serbia, so it's an interesting visit
[00:16:16] and politically very significant, I
[00:16:19] would like, for example, your colleagues when
[00:16:22] Vučić and Zelenskyy appear together, to ask Vučić
[00:16:26] in front of Zelenskyy and the guest, why, for example,
[00:16:30] uh the authorities of the Republic
[00:16:33] of Serbia believe that those who say that Serbia
[00:16:37] needs a Euromaidan are undermining the constitutional order and committing
[00:16:41] a criminal offense, when Volodymyr
[00:16:44] Zelenskyy, Volodimir, excuse me, Volodimir
[00:16:47] Zelenskyy, uh, the successor of,
[00:16:51] uh, the government that came after the Euromaidan
[00:16:54] and after that revolution that is negatively and
[00:16:57] suspiciously presented here as a colored revolution.
[00:17:01] So, why has President Vučić repeatedly and this
[00:17:05] government said that Serbia does not need a Ukrainian scenario and that
[00:17:09] what happened in Ukraine was bad, and now
[00:17:12] he is hosting the president of Ukraine, how does
[00:17:15] that go together, so I would
[00:17:19] that press conference which I assume will be
[00:17:22] organized, and from that we would see
[00:17:25] answers that would be politically
[00:17:28] significant, if no one asks
[00:17:31] such a thing, then it is a ceremonial
[00:17:34] visit by which Vučić shows
[00:17:38] the European Union
[00:17:42] that he is changing course towards
[00:17:45] Russia, which will be recorded somewhere in a report and praised,
[00:17:49] just as the amendments to
[00:17:52] Mrdić's laws were praised, as if they
[00:17:54] were imposed on this government or fell from
[00:17:58] Mars, and then the authorities heroically
[00:18:01] changed them, actually it is a
[00:18:04] maneuver that gives the possibility
[00:18:07] to the Brussels administration to put a "plus"
[00:18:10] on this, whether it is actually a maneuver or
[00:18:14] a fundamental change and a turnaround
[00:18:17] in this international policy is difficult to
[00:18:20] assess, international circumstances are
[00:18:23] changing, perhaps in some future period
[00:18:27] there will be some serious change in Serbia's foreign policy
[00:18:30] at this moment, it is certainly a
[00:18:34] well-thought-out move that
[00:18:36] earns credit from Western partners, i.e., from
[00:18:40] the European Union, so that they might turn a blind eye to
[00:18:44] what kind of elections will be held here, because if
[00:18:47] you align your security foreign policy with the European
[00:18:50] Union, if you turn a blind eye to what is happening in
[00:18:54] Kosovo, then you get some pluses
[00:18:58] and then they will perhaps overlook it more if you
[00:19:01] carry out some electoral violence here and declare victory even if you
[00:19:05] didn't win, that's my opinion. "Whether
[00:19:08] there will be any change in
[00:19:11] Serbia's foreign policy depends primarily on what kind
[00:19:14] of government this country will form and
[00:19:18] what kind of policy it will generally pursue
[00:19:21] towards the European Union and towards other
[00:19:25] factors on the international scene. Regarding concrete
[00:19:28] meetings, there has been talk many times about Zelenskyy
[00:19:31] with Vučić, i.e., representatives of
[00:19:35] Serbia, it was even announced at least once
[00:19:38] that he would come to Belgrade, but that
[00:19:41] did not happen. Is this now, if
[00:19:44] it is indeed about a maneuver, actually a kind of
[00:19:47] service to the authorities in Serbia to host such
[00:19:51] a prominent guest, who in Europe is a symbol
[00:19:54] now of that
[00:19:57] geopolitical conflict between East and West,
[00:20:01] that with his arrival here it is actually
[00:20:04] conveyed that Serbia is also a kind of reliable partner, despite
[00:20:08] all the criticisms we receive from Europe. It can
[00:20:12] be interpreted that way, although I think that Zelenskyy goes wherever
[00:20:16] doors are open to him, he is in a position to seek help at
[00:20:20] every address. Uh, Serbia
[00:20:22] has long been required to behave that way, so
[00:20:26] I think the timing of that meeting
[00:20:29] is chosen. Recently, Vučić himself was in Kyiv. Recently,
[00:20:33] the Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament was also here. So that's
[00:20:37] a process that could have happened four years ago, and three, and
[00:20:41] two, when other European countries that
[00:20:45] sincerely support Ukraine and the Ukrainian people after the Russian
[00:20:48] aggression did. "This regime is doing this just
[00:20:51] before the elections, obviously, insincerely,
[00:20:55] wanting to wink at the European
[00:20:58] Union to blunt the edge
[00:21:02] of criticism that, which it probably expects
[00:21:05] after the elections and post-election processes in
[00:21:08] Serbia. What has been announced and happening over
[00:21:12] the past weeks and months, including
[00:21:16] financial aid, so to speak, a helicopter
[00:21:20] which is announced for autumn, sometime in
[00:21:24] September, a move that only helps short-term,
[00:21:28] writes today, and again they refer to certain
[00:21:31] public opinion polls where they say that regarding
[00:21:35] the rating of the Serbian Progressive Party, nothing is happening, also
[00:21:39] Nova writes about it that it is not yet certain whether all
[00:21:42] the partners currently gathered
[00:21:45] for the SNS will participate in those elections when they
[00:21:49] happen, and the SPS is mentioned there, so
[00:21:53] whether they will go independently or with them, is that another
[00:21:55] part of the story about stirring things up before
[00:21:59] the elections, or does that mean that they will happen, for example, this
[00:22:03] year? Well, you know, that bribing
[00:22:06] of the electorate is a regular phenomenon in Serbia,
[00:22:10] but we didn't invent it. I am sure that those who
[00:22:13] will resort to that measure, that helicopter
[00:22:17] money or other types of increased pensions, salaries
[00:22:20] and everything else that is usually done, will do so
[00:22:23] because some research and some experience show them that
[00:22:27] it still helps, if nothing else, it doesn't hurt,
[00:22:30] it's always better if the government gives than if
[00:22:34] it doesn't, if nothing else, some voters won't cross
[00:22:38] over to the opposing camp, but let me go back to
[00:22:41] my disappointment with this
[00:22:44] Serbian elite, because you just reminded me again
[00:22:48] of the workers, employees in education,
[00:22:51] uh, by chance I read some data
[00:22:55] on membership in education unions where
[00:22:58] we had those so-called
[00:23:01] representative unions that, at the time of the biggest rebellion
[00:23:04] of precisely teachers who joined
[00:23:07] students, called not to
[00:23:10] stop working, but to start the second semester because they negotiated
[00:23:13] in those days with this government a 5%
[00:23:17] increase in wages, uh
[00:23:20] "those unions that, at a time when Vučić's
[00:23:24] chair was shaking the most, went to his couch, who
[00:23:27] negotiated with Slavica Đukić Dejanović, Miloš
[00:23:30] Vučević, and now continue cooperation with Dejan
[00:23:34] Vuk Stanković on this absurd law,
[00:23:38] are not unions that educators massively
[00:23:41] left, and why not? Because in the meantime,
[00:23:44] a collective agreement was adopted which precisely ensures full
[00:23:48] jubilee awards and severance pay for members of those
[00:23:51] unions, and if you are not members of those unions, then
[00:23:55] you do not receive that, this shows me that even that layer
[00:23:58] of the population that is highly educated, that calls itself
[00:24:01] enlighteners, that is not even socially
[00:24:04] vulnerable, despite the fact that salaries in education are lower
[00:24:07] than they should be, but these are still not socially vulnerable people, that
[00:24:11] even they are prone to corruption,
[00:24:14] that the government knows that very well, it pays
[00:24:18] them... more, recently, it seems to me
[00:24:21] Kokan Mladenović spoke about it in the sphere of
[00:24:24] culture, why there is no greater rebellion, there are no
[00:24:28] premieres, no plays, things are done
[00:24:31] as they should, but the salary has not dropped, the salary
[00:24:34] is even increasing, so of course there is no stimulant for
[00:24:38] a greater rebellion, and the government knows that, it knows what kind
[00:24:42] of people it is dealing with, and that's why it
[00:24:44] behaves that way, let me recall the late Balašević
[00:24:48] who said that the problem is not always with such a government, but often
[00:24:51] the problem is with the people who are so easily
[00:24:54] ruled.
[00:24:57] Since their June advance was reduced by 25%, employees at
[00:25:00] Zastava Arms say in the union, they were left without an advance for
[00:25:04] July, which they did not receive by August
[00:25:07] 5th, why our reporter Nataša
[00:25:10] Lazarević is checking. Nataša, do we know the reason for such
[00:25:14] a decision and such
[00:25:15] an event?
[00:25:19] Well, it seems to me. Officially no, considering that there are no
[00:25:23] official answers from the Zastava Arms factory nor
[00:25:26] any information about all the events that have
[00:25:30] afflicted the Kragujevac arms factory, and
[00:25:33] the situation is really bad, say the workers in
[00:25:37] the unions, but well-informed people who have been following the
[00:25:40] defense industry for decades, say that the situation has never
[00:25:44] been worse in the last few decades, it has not happened
[00:25:47] until now, at least, I would say... in that previous period of
[00:25:51] maybe ten years, that workers did not receive their wages, so we will remind you that the
[00:25:55] June one was reduced by 25%, but
[00:25:58] it was compensated through the second part of the salary, i.e., through the payment of, uh, last
[00:26:04] collective leave, we said then when we reported on that 25% reduction
[00:26:08] that they were going on that leave with a heavy heart because they really don't know what
[00:26:11] awaits them, well, they were met with that on August 5th.
[00:26:15] in August did not receive an advance at all. Now,
[00:26:18] in public, there are stories that the unions are silent, the employees are silent, because being
[00:26:22] on collective vacation means that you are not interested in
[00:26:25] the situation in the factory, your salary, or are these actually
[00:26:28] just, let's say, evil tongues?
[00:26:32] Of course, as far as we, the unions, are concerned, we
[00:26:36] are certainly not silent, but the situation is such that we are on collective
[00:26:39] vacation, that the people of the union board have gone,
[00:26:43] gone on vacation to rest, and we are not, we are not, how should I say,
[00:26:47] in a position to react. Today we are still
[00:26:51] on collective vacation, from Monday we start working. Uh, we have
[00:26:54] uh convened the union board early tomorrow morning to
[00:26:58] see what we will do next and how we will, how we will
[00:27:01] get out of this crisis. And what is, in a way, we have now
[00:27:05] recalled, and we talked, you and I, maybe twenty days ago,
[00:27:08] a month ago, when there was that reduction of the advance. Uh, you were,
[00:27:12] let's say, afraid of what would happen with the next salary, considering
[00:27:16] that the management did not give you any guarantees whether there would be money, whether the salaries would be
[00:27:20] paid. That's right, we went on vacation with fear that
[00:27:23] this would happen, what happened, that the management, the executive board, would not
[00:27:27] find uh money
[00:27:31] for the payment. The advance which was on August 5th, well, it happened.
[00:27:35] Uh, to the question, to the question of our
[00:27:38] union, to the question why there is no money, the general director said because
[00:27:41] of cash flow and lack of contracts that within 10 days
[00:27:44] uh he would solve that problem. We, as a union,
[00:27:48] will not wait those 10 days. We will react immediately on Monday,
[00:27:51] immediately, uh, radicalize, and
[00:27:54] we will see, we will see what we will do, what will happen with the people, the people
[00:27:58] whose will is more important for us to create. Our
[00:28:02] our plans, we will remind you that the situation in
[00:28:06] which the factory finds itself followed after the ban on arms exports
[00:28:09] from Serbia, by the decision
[00:28:12] of our state, on the recommendation of President Aleksandar Vučić,
[00:28:16] that was abolished, but the consequences are still being felt. So,
[00:28:20] uh, there are many
[00:28:23] contracts that were canceled after that export ban,
[00:28:26] and is that one of the reasons why the factory
[00:28:30] is now in trouble, but actually the workers are in trouble
[00:28:34] in the first place, who are not receiving the basic, their salary. That's right,
[00:28:37] that export ban of almost eight months has put
[00:28:40] us, how should I say, in an even more difficult situation, uh, and
[00:28:44] I hope that the contracts will be, and that
[00:28:48] for this, for this situation in the factory, someone will have to be held accountable.
[00:28:51] There will be the supervisory board which delegates
[00:28:55] which ministry, uh, the supervisory board delegates the executive board,
[00:28:58] so we will demand accountability, we will demand some changes that, that...
[00:29:02] which we believe led to this situation. Have you
[00:29:05] spoken to the general director? Actually, you just mentioned that you asked
[00:29:09] why, that you called him and asked. Was there any notification at all that
[00:29:12] the workers would not receive salaries, that you would not receive this advance? They
[00:29:16] put some information on the notice
[00:29:19] boards in the factory, uh,
[00:29:23] they didn't inform the unions that there would be, that there would not be
[00:29:26] a payment on the fifth. Uh, we believe that this is a great
[00:29:29] irresponsibility towards our members and towards
[00:29:32] our workers that it is announced in such a way uh that there will not
[00:29:36] be, there will not be an advance in the fifth month. Uh, we spoke
[00:29:40] with the general director, he said that he had not found, that the conditions had not been
[00:29:43] met, that he had not found money for the payment, that it would be
[00:29:47] within those 10 days. Finally, I will ask you, considering that information appears in the public
[00:29:50] that when there were rallies of the Serbian Progressive Party in the previous period,
[00:29:54] information was mentioned that some
[00:29:57] workers of Zastava Oružje anonymously testified
[00:30:00] or reported, uh... that they were called to
[00:30:04] attend rallies of the Serbian Progressive Party
[00:30:07] and that somewhere, considering that that quota was not met when it comes to this factory,
[00:30:11] that this is perhaps now with these salaries some punishment
[00:30:15] for the workers. How do you in the Union view this? Did you
[00:30:19] receive those complaints from some employees, uh?
[00:30:22] Officially, we did not. Uh, many people are also
[00:30:26] afraid to say. We publicly released information that every
[00:30:29] type of mobbing and in that way. The way pressure
[00:30:33] is exerted, to contact the union, that we will provide maximum assistance, legal
[00:30:36] assistance. They did not contact us, as I
[00:30:39] said, possibly because of that fear, but I
[00:30:43] don't believe that it's because the quota, the quota
[00:30:47] of 400-500 people was not met, and that's why we don't have,
[00:30:50] we don't have a salary today. We are financed mostly from
[00:30:54] our own funds and from contracts and from all
[00:30:57] those, as I said.