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[00:00:00] We are watching this because for the first time,
[00:00:02] SNS is entering the campaign without
[00:00:05] that aura of invincibility,
[00:00:08] absolute control of everything. This is the first time we see them in a slightly
[00:00:12] different atmosphere, a slightly different, I mean, in a slightly
[00:00:15] different role. They
[00:00:18] still, even though the whole situation has changed, even though these are the
[00:00:21] first elections where they practically
[00:00:24] have a competitor who,
[00:00:27] in terms of ratings, is somewhere there, has come very close to them, if
[00:00:31] not equalized, at least at some moments.
[00:00:34] They still use, for now, what we've seen are some old
[00:00:38] tricks which no longer
[00:00:41] seem so almighty and so
[00:00:44] effective a way to solve the
[00:00:47] whole situation, in advance and even before the campaign,
[00:00:51] so now we are actually entering an uncertain campaign. On the
[00:00:54] other hand, we also have students who are largely hiding their strategy,
[00:00:58] they haven't shown it, they haven't... shown the list either, so we don't even know
[00:01:01] what exactly to expect from them now.
[00:01:05] So we have a new situation where we actually have
[00:01:09] you're in the a perception of President Vučić and SNS as
[00:01:12] completely different, in a different role than we are used to in the
[00:01:16] past ten or more years. And if you say that in
[00:01:20] such a situation old tricks are applied,
[00:01:23] who are they aimed at? At the existing voters? Is the
[00:01:27] goal to keep those who had them before? Is the goal
[00:01:31] to win new ones? What is the goal? Well, first of all, I think that
[00:01:34] they can hardly win any new ones in this kind of
[00:01:38] atmosphere and after so many years of power,
[00:01:41] of state capture, it's hard for them to inspire some
[00:01:45] new ones, and even if we're talking about
[00:01:47] some uh, some
[00:01:51] extra-electoral, illegitimate, illegal
[00:01:54] course, it's hard for them to find enough people, or
[00:01:58] some new people. So they are primarily defending
[00:02:02] what they had until now. I have no doubt that their
[00:02:05] pool, that reservoir
[00:02:08] of voters is quite threatened and they have to defend it,
[00:02:11] so I think that primarily in the previous period,
[00:02:15] their activities were
[00:02:19] aimed at consolidating those people. - On the other hand, we now see
[00:02:23] what they traditionally do. We see, for example, this
[00:02:27] from your report, we saw this so-called "people's
[00:02:30] campaign," meaning he is a man of the people and he has gone among the people, with the
[00:02:33] fact that after all his other roles,
[00:02:37] statesmanlike and party, that all-powerful role,
[00:02:41] he seems quite, he actually seems uncomfortable, and in every such
[00:02:44] contact he physically looks like he would
[00:02:48] prefer to leave. Do you think fishing, singing in
[00:02:51] the car, petting animals, all this we've
[00:02:55] seen now, and finally, this kolo
[00:02:58] at Rasim Ljajić's place, that it is the answer to the students and what we see from
[00:03:02] them? Yes, yes, I mean, I suppose now they
[00:03:05] have a certain number of voters for sure who
[00:03:08] are now insecure, and now I suppose that this part of the campaign
[00:03:12] is dedicated to them.
[00:03:16] And yes, it is now probably in contrast to the
[00:03:19] students who are cheerful, it brings hope, enthusiasm,
[00:03:23] and in some way, people have given themselves permission to trust
[00:03:26] them, because with politicians everywhere in the world, there is a problem
[00:03:30] of trust, because they behave, I mean, people perceive them
[00:03:34] as traveling salesmen, as if it's some kind of transaction.
[00:03:37] Now the student movement, or as people
[00:03:40] often say, the children have given them this
[00:03:44] space to trust them, because they, I mean, don't ask for anything, they
[00:03:48] came here to fight for their future, for our future, for staying in the country, so
[00:03:51] people somehow gave themselves a break, and now this
[00:03:55] whole negative, negative feeling towards the sphere of politics
[00:03:59] somehow broke through, some hope, enthusiasm, something beautiful, and
[00:04:02] students are riding that wave of some, of some openness
[00:04:05] of people towards such
[00:04:08] an emotion now in the public space.
[00:04:12] On the other hand, simply someone who has
[00:04:15] until now been what is called a strong man in theory,
[00:04:19] in practice
[00:04:22] simply cannot respond from this position, from all these, I mean, he
[00:04:26] cannot personally, and not enough time has passed
[00:04:30] from his previous role as this very, very
[00:04:34] strong solver of everything before going to the elections
[00:04:38] and polling stations. Now he is trying
[00:04:41] to compensate for his lack of humanity, or the lack
[00:04:44] of humanity of the role he previously had. So now we are watching these
[00:04:48] somewhat clumsy attempts
[00:04:51] to approach people and present himself as one of them. On the
[00:04:55] other hand, then what target group do you see as primary
[00:04:59] for the student list? For the student list, so that a victory
[00:05:02] can be achieved? Is it the abstainers so far?
[00:05:06] Is it the undecided voters? Is it the current voters
[00:05:09] of the Serbian Progressive Party? The same ones
[00:05:13] that the president is trying to keep with all these mechanisms
[00:05:16] you just talked about? Uh, well, it's a bit of
[00:05:20] all of them, all of these groups. I am sure that the students have drawn
[00:05:24] some milder abstainers for whom it is not a life's, a life's
[00:05:27] decision not to vote, not to engage in politics. There is a certain percentage of such people, but
[00:05:31] they are simply difficult, they are in a completely non-political, non-historical
[00:05:35] process in their heads, so they are difficult. But on the
[00:05:39] other hand, there are some milder abstainers who are certainly students.
[00:05:42] They have already attracted them for the reason that they are new, that
[00:05:46] they don't have, as they say, "butter on their heads," that they don't have
[00:05:49] a party past.
[00:05:52] Uh, on the other hand, yes, there are probably
[00:05:55] a certain number, it's not a very large number of former voters of SNS,
[00:05:59] or those who are now declaring that they will probably vote, but are not sure they will
[00:06:03] vote. There is a pool of voters that students could reach,
[00:06:07] but you said there are not many such voters. Uh, there are not many for...
[00:06:10] Then it shows, I think it's, now I haven't seen since all this happened
[00:06:14] with the opposition, although all of that now requires new research because it's a new
[00:06:18] political situation, a new context.
[00:06:21] Uh, so this will now be seen how
[00:06:25] it is distributed and what the atmosphere is among this
[00:06:27] anti-regime uh, you actually said, if I'm not mistaken,
[00:06:31] that in an atmosphere of great political
[00:06:34] divisions, there are fewer and fewer undecideds. I, for
[00:06:38] example, remember that a large study was done, a really large one, before
[00:06:42] the 2023 elections. Back then, the expectations were not
[00:06:46] like this, there were expectations that in big cities something might happen,
[00:06:50] that is, that power might change in big cities. At that time, I remember there were
[00:06:53] 7-8% undecideds in that big study right before the elections.
[00:06:57] So there are fewer and fewer, this is no longer the situation we had in the
[00:07:00] 90s, when there were
[00:07:03] 20, 30% undecideds, and simply campaigns were then directed at
[00:07:07] them. Now it's a slightly different case within this electoral
[00:07:11] is, so we will
[00:07:14] see how that will be realized
[00:07:18] on election day itself. On the other hand, there are those voters, there were
[00:07:22] some in previous surveys who are not
[00:07:25] sure of their choice, they are not sure who they will say they will
[00:07:29] vote for, but there are also them, I mean, it's amazing that both among
[00:07:33] students and among
[00:07:35] SNS, in this situation, it was around 80 and
[00:07:39] over 80% of sure voters, which is quite a lot.
[00:07:42] Which is quite a large number before the election, that means people are determined to go out,
[00:07:46] but there are still about twenty percent who are not so sure, and they
[00:07:50] will decide, what will decide the winner of these elections? Well, I think that,
[00:07:54] because I imagine that for students it is actually most important, because we have
[00:07:58] this situation here uh that you have on one
[00:08:01] side a political option that absolutely controls the entire electoral
[00:08:05] process, both in the diaspora, in Republika Srpska,
[00:08:08] and here at polling stations and in institutions, and it has...
[00:08:12] that power that it, I mean, first has a party infrastructure and people
[00:08:16] who go out and call people,
[00:08:20] drive people, all that students don't have. Students, on the other
[00:08:23] hand, have this general mobilization, that
[00:08:26] enthusiasm, but the problem now for that enthusiasm is to really
[00:08:29] bring it to election day, to the polling station, because
[00:08:33] they don't have such, I mean, for now they don't have or it's not visible,
[00:08:36] this kind of electoral structure, this, or rather, this kind of electoral machinery.
[00:08:40] So for students, it is important to... bring all these people
[00:08:43] who are now supporting them to the polling station on October 25th.
[00:08:47] So we will now see
[00:08:51] the struggle of enthusiasm and mobilization on one side and control
[00:08:54] of the process on the other side, and potential electoral irregularities, because we know
[00:08:58] how local elections looked, how local elections looked, but that
[00:09:02] is a separate topic, let's stick to the campaign and what
[00:09:05] will happen until the elections. Do you think that
[00:09:09] those scenes, first the queues for collecting signatures for the student
[00:09:13] list, then the submission of the student list itself,
[00:09:16] that that was somehow a turning point that
[00:09:19] set the trajectory for the continuation of this campaign, that with what
[00:09:23] we talked about at the beginning, how SNS conducts its campaign, that this
[00:09:27] is now the first time that actually one
[00:09:29] opposition force, the student list,
[00:09:32] is defining the campaign, that somehow
[00:09:35] it is the one that people are looking at? Yes, there are campaigns that
[00:09:39] happen like that, where that energy pulls...
[00:09:42] the strategy, not just the submission of the list, that enthusiasm and
[00:09:46] dancing the kolo in front of RIK, but also before
[00:09:48] that, those queues for signing up, where
[00:09:51] people again awakened what we call the "kiflica period," where again
[00:09:55] people uh, what, for
[00:09:58] example, uh probably no longer exists with SNS and
[00:10:02] doesn't exist in that way, that people for the first
[00:10:05] time came into a situation, I mean, for the first time again came into a situation
[00:10:09] to build that identity of belonging to that one
[00:10:12] community, that they found themselves on the street, fighting for the same
[00:10:16] thing, created that sense of belonging to each other and
[00:10:20] belonging to that identity which is then so
[00:10:23] motivating, more than any
[00:10:25] message that students can send at that moment.
[00:10:29] So they are actually riding a wave more than it
[00:10:32] is this something that they could artificially produce
[00:10:36] from some election headquarters. In that atmosphere, what
[00:10:40] uh what effect does what is called a referendum
[00:10:44] atmosphere achieve? And the fact that these elections are seen as
[00:10:47] a day when the most important
[00:10:51] decision is made, as a day that changes where actually
[00:10:55] the resolution of this two-year crisis we
[00:10:58] are living is somehow expected. Well, the referendum itself, as
[00:11:01] if we avoid that, and the referendum atmosphere, the referendum itself
[00:11:04] is simpler for voters, because for
[00:11:07] voters who are not involved in politics, who are not in this
[00:11:11] sector of ours where we really deal with news and campaigns every day,
[00:11:14] it's easier for them when it's a referendum at stake, it's easier to make a decision,
[00:11:18] it's easier, they don't have to inform themselves whether they are allowed to vote for an opposition
[00:11:22] party or not allowed to vote or whether they should... count
[00:11:26] now those who are not so adept at don't worry about whether
[00:11:29] they will be judged or not.
[00:11:32] They always like a referendum atmosphere because they
[00:11:36] simply have a simpler situation. At referendums,
[00:11:39] regardless of elections, turnout is always higher because it's approximately one question
[00:11:43] that is asked. It's not a question of politics, it's not a question
[00:11:46] of the European Union or Russia, it's not a question of these complex political
[00:11:50] issues. That's why there is a possibility that if
[00:11:53] that referendum [atmosphere] is created, which we are already seeing a lot of,
[00:11:57] it will be simpler for people to decide more easily to go out, regardless of the fact
[00:12:00] that there are more lists participating in the elections, so there are not just two.
[00:12:04] That atmosphere, that effect can actually
[00:12:07] be achieved. We'll see what happens with these so-called phantom
[00:12:11] and less-phantom lists, which we already have. That's why I say these are
[00:12:14] already old tricks. For example, it's interesting to me now that Rasim has
[00:12:18] two parties coming out, even though he is no longer the president of one, but now he is coming out as
[00:12:22] a minority party. That is one of the novel, interesting things, but
[00:12:26] I mean, at the level of electoral fraud, I mean, such
[00:12:30] things will happen to us, but we are somehow already used to it. That's why I say
[00:12:34] these are quite old tricks. For the end, I just want to ask you about the opposition
[00:12:38] parties. Yesterday, uh,
[00:12:40] so the coalition of pro-European parties submitted
[00:12:44] their electoral list to RIK.
[00:12:48] Uh, previously we heard that
[00:12:51] some prominent members of the Srce party,
[00:12:55] SSP, either left the presidency
[00:12:58] in the case of Srce, or left the list in the case
[00:13:01] of SSP. First, I want to ask you what you think about that, what kind of
[00:13:05] effect this withdrawal of some of their members can have
[00:13:09] on their results? Well,
[00:13:11] as far as the opposition is concerned, I don't belong to the part
[00:13:15] that is happy about this situation, because in the last few years, our country
[00:13:19] has still created some kind of party system. We had some
[00:13:22] new parties with new faces who managed to join
[00:13:26] European party families, to build some relationships, some structures. So I
[00:13:30] hope that at least some people who
[00:13:33] uh uh who have profiled
[00:13:36] themselves, who have made some careers or
[00:13:39] some uh ratings, let's say, their political
[00:13:43] identities, will survive this period,
[00:13:47] will continue to engage in politics. But what I criticize opposition parties for is that
[00:13:51] they missed the moment to create some kind
[00:13:54] of format where precisely those people who,
[00:13:57] at least among this anti-regime side,
[00:14:00] had some ratings, managed to form
[00:14:04] a formation that is favorable for this moment and to be
[00:14:07] some kind of support, uh, support for the student
[00:14:11] list. Uh, so now in this
[00:14:14] referendum atmosphere, under such pressure, I don't
[00:14:17] see that opposition parties who are
[00:14:21] still determined to participate can
[00:14:23] create space for themselves. The atmosphere will be like it was in 2024 for
[00:14:27] that part of the opposition that participated. More will be said about why you
[00:14:30] are participating than what you are offering, who the people are and what is being done. So
[00:14:34] I think it will be difficult for them to get out of the discourse that is now
[00:14:37] imposed on them.
[00:14:45] For Arilje raspberries, few people don't know, or maybe
[00:14:48] I'm wrong. For the clean river that beautifies nature
[00:14:52] and gives life to everything, and above all, to man. "It would be good
[00:14:55] to know. So we have where to grow something,
[00:14:59] plant in this healthy soil, right? We drink clean water and all
[00:15:03] that, yet we are not, we are not aware of it.
[00:15:06] So-called builders of dams and what
[00:15:09] not smelled mountains. This is a project, imagine,
[00:15:13] from the 80s still. Imagine a country where,
[00:15:16] let's say, almost 50 years nothing has changed to
[00:15:20] find some other sources of supply. That dam shouldn't
[00:15:23] have been..." Here we could have
[00:15:27] used that water without a dam,
[00:15:30] as it is still used today.
[00:15:34] The nature protection procedure in Serbia typically lasts
[00:15:37] about nine years.
[00:15:41] The material aspect, even after proclamation,
[00:15:44] represents a significant
[00:15:47] item.
[00:15:50] According to Protected Planet website, we are in
[00:15:53] 39th place out of 40 European
[00:15:56] countries.
[00:16:00] It is extremely important to protect it due to the diversity of plant
[00:16:03] and animal life found within these protected areas.
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