N1SRP — broadcast 20261012 070000 UTC 447 transcript segments Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:00] Probotanic, healthy family. [00:00:14] Indian summer is over, as of yesterday there has been a noticeable [00:00:18] drop in temperature. It cleared up for a short time, but it will be [00:00:21] fresh and windy today. Slight improvement in [00:00:25] biometeorological conditions is expected, which may contribute to a reduction in discomfort for [00:00:29] chronic patients and sensitive people. [00:00:32] Road users are advised to pay special [00:00:35] attention. [00:00:38] This cooler air mass that arrived from the northwest remains [00:00:41] over the Balkans. The temperature will be around, even slightly [00:00:45] below average for this time of year. Across Serbia this [00:00:49] morning there is light to moderate cloudiness, occasionally [00:00:52] fog, but it is dry. The coldest is on Kopaonik with 2 [00:00:55] degrees, the warmest in Negotin where 15 [00:00:58] degrees was measured. As the day progresses, an [00:01:02] increase in cloudiness is expected, however it will remain mostly dry, [00:01:05] very light rain is possible, only tonight [00:01:09] in the far southeast of the country. Moderate, [00:01:12] occasionally strong northwesterly wind will blow, and the highest daily [00:01:16] temperature will be in the range of 15 to [00:01:18] 20°. In the coming days it will be variably [00:01:21] cloudy, cool and mostly dry. Light rain is possible [00:01:25] tomorrow in some places in the south and east. Dry on [00:01:29] Wednesday and Thursday, on Friday [00:01:54] we're talking about until the end [00:01:56] of the show. Domestic and international. [00:02:00] The observation missions recorded irregularities even before [00:02:03] the elections themselves, about the decisions of RIK, voting in the diaspora, [00:02:07] the course of the campaign and expectations in the next ten days. In [00:02:11] the topic of the morning. Our guest is Professor of the Faculty of Political [00:02:14] Sciences Dušan [00:02:15] Vučićević. [00:02:19] Why are the data on the number of voters from Kosovo and Metohija being updated, how much [00:02:23] room does that leave for election manipulation, N1 [00:02:26] reporter reports and checks. [00:02:31] More than a year after the closure, students returned [00:02:35] to the building of the Novi Sad high school Jovan Jovanović [00:02:38] Zmaj. Have the works on the dome solved the problems in that [00:03:00] The latest sports news is brought by Ivan Govedarica from Sport [00:03:04] Klub. [00:03:07] Before all these topics, again the morning news prepared [00:03:10] by Marija Pejović. Marija, today [00:03:14] the printing of ballots begins exactly at noon. [00:03:18] Jovana, today exactly from 12 o'clock, more [00:03:21] in the continuation of our pre-election [00:03:23] block. [00:03:31] The Republic Election Commission today from 12 o'clock starts printing [00:03:34] ballots in the printing house of the official gazette, there will be [00:03:38] observers authorized to monitor the work of election [00:03:41] implementation bodies, 6,450,523 [00:03:45] a traditional German product based ballots will be printed, which is [00:03:48] a number identical to the number of voters. Member of the commission [00:03:52] for revision, verification and control of the accuracy of voter [00:03:55] list update Ognjan Raš. stated that the number of [00:04:00] voters in the parliamentary elections was slightly above [00:04:03] expected. [00:04:05] In Valjevo, a pre-election [00:04:08] rally of the student list "Students Win" was held. Five [00:04:12] days after a police cordon separated citizens [00:04:15] who were protesting during the Progressive Party's rally, at which [00:04:19] Aleksandar Vučić, the first on the list, also addressed the [00:04:23] crowd. The gathered were addressed by [00:04:27] candidates from the student list and two students. [00:04:32] In this city we were educated, on this [00:04:36] land we grew up, [00:04:38] the month of books, instead of at on these our Valjevo hills we learned about [00:04:41] courage, and under this sky [00:04:44] we were freed. [00:04:46] Thanks to you, we became what we are [00:04:50] and as we are, [00:04:53] brave, persistent, [00:04:56] determined to stay here with you and... [00:05:00] among you, because these are our hills, [00:05:03] no one has the right to take them from us and give them away for [00:05:07] nothing. [00:05:16] "We want to stay here, [00:05:20] here to give our knowledge, our [00:05:24] education, our intelligence back [00:05:27] to our own, not to give it to some foreign [00:05:30] country. I know that medicine has completely [00:05:33] dehumanized, that we follow him as a patient, we follow [00:05:37] him as a number, that must no longer [00:05:39] exist. [00:05:46] What we must pay attention to is, of course, healthcare [00:05:49] workers, primarily doctors and nurses and [00:05:52] technicians. We know that many of them are leaving, we must [00:05:56] stop that, we can stop that by [00:05:59] preventing every doctor from being [00:06:02] politically conditioned, and I know that many of you [00:06:06] stayed home today because of fear, but now is [00:06:09] the time to be brave for... [00:06:12] Remember, courage is not the absence [00:06:15] of fear, courage [00:06:18] is when we go through that fear, we move [00:06:21] forward. [00:06:26] The leader of the United Serbia list, Aleksandar [00:06:29] Vučić, stated in Zrenjanin that these elections [00:06:32] are decisive, emphasizing that he wants a convincing victory with [00:06:36] a difference of half a million votes. He said that it is [00:06:39] important that voter turnout is high, claiming that his list's [00:06:43] advantage is growing day by day. At the same time, [00:06:46] the archive of public gatherings published that about 7,000 [00:06:50] people gathered at the pre-election rally "Raskršće, [00:06:54] We Choose Together," which the student list held in Niš. [00:06:57] Representatives of the student list announced at this rally [00:07:01] that they will have the final event as part of their pre-election campaign [00:07:05] at Belgrade's Slavija Square on October [00:07:08] 22nd. [00:07:11] Zdravko Ponoš, leader of the Serbia Center movement, and Miloš Jovanović [00:07:15] from the New DSS, said on "Utisak Nedelje" (Impression of the Week) that they consider their decision to [00:07:18] participate in the elections [00:07:20] correct. [00:07:23] Every election match, as well as every battle, carries a certain dose [00:07:26] of uncertainty, but as long as you choose to [00:07:30] do what you think is the right thing, that it is [00:07:33] correct, and generals should lead [00:07:36] the army to do something that is correct for the national cause, [00:07:39] I have no dilemma that I am doing the right thing, I truly believe. "that [00:07:43] the student list is winning, that is, that students are winning, [00:07:47] I believe that based on many [00:07:50] surveys that we conducted and some others who conducted, [00:07:53] I believe based on uh all that has happened since [00:07:57] the day the elections were called and that [00:08:00] referendum atmosphere that was created [00:08:03] among the people of that uh [00:08:06] huge optimism that we see on the streets, so [00:08:09] from the moment the students said on May 5th last year that they wanted elections." without changing [00:08:12] the conditions, we very quickly took note of that, when we realized that they didn't want to go to those elections with anyone else, [00:08:16] but that they wanted to go independently, apart from everyone [00:08:19] else, we took note of it, we publicly invited them a couple of times, we said [00:08:23] maybe it's better if we are all, so all opposition actors on one [00:08:27] list, it was said, as I say, on several occasions from their side that they don't [00:08:30] want that, we take it seriously, I don't beg anyone if [00:08:33] I hear three or five times that we will have nothing to do with politicians, which was their clear [00:08:37] message, we take note of it, we made [00:08:39] a decision, not only is it the correct decision, but... the only possible [00:08:43] one. [00:08:57] Savo Manojlović announced that the movement has just been [00:09:00] informed that a session of the city assembly has been scheduled for tomorrow [00:09:04] to dismiss Aleksandar Šapić, based on [00:09:07] the request they submitted with other opposition [00:09:19] the Nova RS portal, as well as other media, journalist [00:09:22] Radovan Seratlić told Novi Dan that [00:09:25] trust is the most important thing we [00:09:27] have. [00:09:30] Banditry cannot be exactly welcomed with "Oh, we're so glad to see [00:09:33] you." Colleagues from Nova RS reacted [00:09:37] again in accordance with the measure of their skin, right, and [00:09:41] said what they had to say. After that we [00:09:44] had some reactions that whoever doesn't [00:09:48] like it doesn't have to work, yes, that's true and that's [00:09:52] the essence of everything and then I wonder, why doesn't someone who has power [00:09:55] just say, now 30 of you no longer work [00:09:58] here, we're bringing our 30, that's dangerous and risky because no one would watch [00:10:02] something like that, we already have [00:10:05] a whole lot of television stations that are edited from one highest [00:10:09] place, recently it was Andrićev Venac. [00:10:15] Residents of Kyiv rejected the call of US President [00:10:19] Donald Trump for Ukraine to replace President [00:10:22] Volodymyr Zelensky, saying [00:10:26] that the country must choose its own political future while [00:10:29] fighting the Russian [00:10:31] invasion. [00:10:34] The problem is not our president, the problem is the president who started the war [00:10:38] against us. That's all, that's my opinion. Let them replace [00:10:41] him. No matter how you look at it, we are still [00:10:45] an independent state. And the United States cannot just replace any [00:10:48] president. This is not Maduro, this is not Venezuela. [00:10:52] The fact that our strong partner started to show. [00:11:02] No one has the right to tell us what to do, especially since elections cannot be held during wartime, to put it politely, this [00:11:06] is not just bad, this is treason, in my opinion, our partners [00:11:10] have betrayed us. [00:11:14] And what about the guys who are defending us now, how can they vote and elect [00:11:17] a president, even if there was a better candidate. In the end, that's [00:11:21] something we have to decide ourselves, not Trump. [00:11:36] family. After 40, our skin needs [00:11:39] more than just an ordinary moisturizer. 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How accurate are the data from the voter list and [00:17:53] how close to 6.5 million Serbian citizens have the right to vote in the elections for [00:17:56] national deputies. What message does the Republic Election Commission [00:18:00] send with its decisions? What kind of elections await us, [00:18:03] what kind of last two weeks of the campaign, if we take into [00:18:07] account the tone of this campaign, but also the pressures, the prevention [00:18:11] of voters in the diaspora from exercising their right [00:18:13] to vote. The guest of our topic is Professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences Dušan [00:18:17] Vučićević. Dušan, thank you for being in the N1 studio this morning, so [00:18:21] I would first like you to share with us perhaps some impression [00:18:25] of the current campaign which, well, is not long, but we don't [00:18:29] have in the last period particularly long campaigns, but rather ones that are [00:18:33] quite legally limited to the shortest possible, how does it [00:18:36] seem to you, what would you highlight perhaps as [00:18:40] something that has stood out the most until this moment, so let's remind you, two [00:18:44] weeks until the elections. Good morning first of all, I have [00:18:47] more impressions probably, [00:18:50] what is most important is that for the first time after 14 [00:18:54] years we have a campaign in which two strong [00:18:57] actors compete, who gather a large number of people and [00:19:01] will not only have a large number of votes at polling stations [00:19:04] but in this campaign they have many people [00:19:08] who are active and in fact that is one of the main [00:19:12] impressions, what we see in the previous two [00:19:15] years that one expressed mobilization [00:19:18] of citizens, not only those who were previously very [00:19:21] active, but those who were dormant somewhere in the previous [00:19:24] period who are now there, not only to go to elections and [00:19:28] vote, but are active in [00:19:31] terms of membership in the expanded composition of polling [00:19:34] committees, in mobile teams, in call [00:19:37] centers of the student list, so we have for the first [00:19:41] time a strong ground campaign of someone who [00:19:45] is not the Serbian Progressive Party and it seems [00:19:48] to me that we see that very clearly in the previous two or three weeks, that we will [00:19:52] see that in the next two, that we will see that, which is most important, [00:19:56] on election day, there they have now somehow on the ground, [00:19:59] let's say, equalized or it even seems to me that [00:20:02] the student list is leading, [00:20:05] uh SNS has... a campaign that is somewhat [00:20:08] different from the previous ones, I assume because [00:20:12] of what is happening on the ground, they are now trying in [00:20:16] television studios to [00:20:19] bring that fight with representatives of the student list to the ground [00:20:22] that suits them better, after 14 years we have for the first [00:20:26] time Mr. Vučić who insists on TV debates with candidates from the other [00:20:30] side, and in fact we know that in the previous period [00:20:34] he always very skillfully avoided that and then of course. [00:20:37] now the clash of these two big campaigns, we have [00:20:40] some mini campaigns of these other [00:20:43] actors which are relatively [00:20:46] visible, which are trying in part [00:20:49] through social networks, in part through the media, [00:20:53] to cross the election threshold and then [00:20:57] join the distribution of mandates and influence how [00:21:00] the future government will be formed, along with all of them, of course, [00:21:04] and these minority parties who again have their own mini [00:21:07] campaigns, some of which are interesting and where we [00:21:11] might also have a situation that uh those 7, [00:21:14] 8, 9, 10, however many there are in total of minority mandates [00:21:18] will decide who will form the government, so we will have [00:21:22] an interesting end to the campaign and probably also [00:21:25] the days after the elections, when we take into account, you mentioned in one [00:21:29] sentence, a lot of people who have applied to be [00:21:33] observers, that is, to be in polling committees at [00:21:36] the polling stations themselves and have been undergoing training for days, how much [00:21:40] does that actually change the story in the context of the old story that the conditions are old [00:21:43] and not good enough at best, how much [00:21:47] does that actually change the story now that we actually have a significantly larger number [00:21:50] of volunteers applying for something like that, it changes it to a large extent, I would [00:21:54] say, it is true that the conditions for elections are [00:21:58] never worse, it is true that we will not again have free and [00:22:01] fair elections and that probably if we observe these different [00:22:05] spheres, we call them [00:22:07] auxiliary arenas of the electoral system, access to media, access to resources, [00:22:11] access to law, SNS of course dominates [00:22:15] there as the party that [00:22:18] rules in this hybrid regime, but on the other hand [00:22:21] at polling stations we can [00:22:24] expect much better control than in [00:22:28] the previous period, we can expect that [00:22:32] votes will be counted fairly, that there will be very few [00:22:36] irregularities at polling [00:22:38] stations, whether all polling stations are covered [00:22:42] by trained controllers, we will see in the coming days, [00:22:45] the student list did propose for all polling stations that [00:22:49] specified number of members of the expanded composition of polling committees [00:22:53] and now it remains for the people who deal with it to ensure that [00:22:57] the part of controllers who have not undergone training in the next ten [00:23:00] days undergo that training and then they really try [00:23:04] to make that counting at polling stations [00:23:07] be as voters [00:23:11] voted, we are of course not sure in the past how many [00:23:14] polling stations were completely uncovered [00:23:18] by controllers. [00:23:28] in one polling station in Sjenica municipality [00:23:32] where out of 702 752 voters [00:23:36] 751 voted and 749 voted for changing [00:23:40] the constitution then you compare the elections of 2020 and [00:23:43] 2023 at the same polling station and you see that 200 to [00:23:47] 300 people turned out, then we can assume that at that place [00:23:50] in 2022 someone actually [00:23:53] ballot papers with circled yes at the end [00:23:57] put into that box so transparently that [00:24:00] so transparently obvious by by those results that [00:24:04] should really now not happen practically or that [00:24:08] should be prevented [00:24:10] so that in that way this uneven [00:24:14] terrain on which the government and anti-regime actors compete is somewhat equalized. That is election [00:24:18] day, so that is October 25th, but what do these [00:24:22] data show us, at least these numbers concerning the concluded voter [00:24:26] list, that is, voters in [00:24:29] Serbia, if there is a chance for greater control at the polling stations themselves [00:24:32] on the 25th, how much [00:24:35] can that make the elections regular if we have [00:24:38] an extremely large problem with the voter list and residents [00:24:42] practically as well as voters with these [00:24:45] current problems in the diaspora, yes, I think that the day when it is [00:24:49] announced how many the total number of voters in the voter [00:24:52] list is, is actually a Groundhog Day that [00:24:56] has been repeating since 2020, when in [00:25:00] fact a huge number of citizens are suddenly shocked at how [00:25:03] many voters we have in the voter list. The voter list and the [00:25:06] population census are two completely different records. [00:25:10] It is true that in the population census there are a [00:25:13] million fewer adults than there are [00:25:16] in the voter list. Our voter list in that sense [00:25:20] is relatively inaccurate. I [00:25:23] of course cannot claim how many people who have died [00:25:27] are on the voter list, there are probably [00:25:29] such people, uh, the number of [00:25:33] voters in the voter list is significantly higher because [00:25:36] it includes our citizens who are 18 years old [00:25:40] and who have legal capacity, for example, they live in [00:25:44] Republika Srpska, Montenegro and all other [00:25:47] countries where the diaspora is located. The census, especially [00:25:50] those who moved 5, 10, [00:25:53] 15, 20 years ago, does not catch them and [00:25:57] hence, well, at least a part of that, a good part of that [00:26:00] difference, uh... "I often say that [00:26:04] in our research and in all other things we deal with, we somehow [00:26:08] calculate that the total number of adult residents who [00:26:11] actually live in Serbia can come out to the polls [00:26:15] here, around 5.1 million, [00:26:17] it is possible that we are slightly wrong, it is possible that it is 5.2, it is possible that it is slightly less, but [00:26:21] that is approximately that number, that is important from the point of view [00:26:24] of turnout, previous turnout, for example [00:26:27] in 2023 which we had of 3.8, 3.9 [00:26:31] million". are actually high, that is [00:26:35] of course according to this formal voter list it was somewhere around 58, [00:26:38] 59%, but that is somewhere around 74, [00:26:41] 75% of what would be the real voter [00:26:44] list, yes, so that is also important from the point of view [00:26:48] of what is an important topic for the next elections [00:26:51] increased turnout, it will of course be higher than [00:26:54] in 2023, but it is practically impossible for it to be higher than [00:26:58] 70% in relation to what is the formal [00:27:01] voter list. So this issue [00:27:04] needs to be resolved, it will unfortunately only be resolved [00:27:07] after a change of government, even then, the number of voters on the [00:27:11] voter list will not return to those [00:27:14] 5.2, 5.3 million people, because you cannot remove from the [00:27:18] voter list those people that the census doesn't catch, who don't live in Serbia, [00:27:22] so those entire families, which will be on the voter list [00:27:26] even when it is thoroughly checked, [00:27:28] and that is a topic we've been waiting for. [00:27:32] six, seven years because it has been discussed at least since [00:27:35] 2019. And what does the fact tell us, precisely [00:27:39] when we talk about turnout, when we talk about the number of people, and when we talk about [00:27:42] some kind of records, what does this [00:27:46] data about the number of registered voters abroad tell us, so from [00:27:50] 39,000 in previous elections to over [00:27:52] 100,000 now, that's right, 111,000 [00:27:56] was the last information that reflects this [00:28:00] mobilization that is happening. in Serbia, but also happened in [00:28:04] the previous period in the diaspora, [00:28:07] the student movement and students have established [00:28:10] good connections in the past year or so with our [00:28:14] diaspora, with the assembly in the diaspora, which [00:28:17] has dealt a lot with this topic in the past year, year and a half [00:28:21] and where the desire of citizens who left Serbia [00:28:24] to participate in the elections [00:28:27] has increased. And it also says that we can [00:28:31] expect a higher turnout here in [00:28:34] Serbia, and when we talk about overall turnout, it's hard to [00:28:38] make an estimate now, of course, because of those 111,000, [00:28:42] in the end we're not sure how many of them will actually vote, whether it will be [00:28:45] 50 or 90,000, but that will increase these [00:28:49] numbers regarding turnout in Serbia, which [00:28:53] we expect based on research data, I would say somewhere near 4.3 [00:28:56] million is my [00:28:59] expectation with an increased. number of people [00:29:03] who will vote, uh, at polling stations outside Serbia, we [00:29:06] can go to 4.3, 4.4 [00:29:10] million, which in relation to these 5.1 I mentioned [00:29:13] earlier, would be almost 90%, so about [00:29:16] 87, 88% mentioned in the newspapers [00:29:19] as a threshold at which change can actually [00:29:23] be expected, or the number that is necessary for us to have [00:29:25] because expectations are more or less [00:29:28] that the Serbian Progressive Party will bring out [00:29:32] its 1.7, [00:29:35] 1.8 million voters, they, of course, expect perhaps even higher [00:29:39] numbers, because they also have their, uh, [00:29:41] lists of sure votes we more or less know [00:29:44] roughly the unofficial stories are how many people [00:29:48] are on their lists, but that 1.7, [00:29:51] 1.8 is something that is probably expected in these [00:29:54] elections, with some numbers going [00:29:57] to the SPS then, of course, when you set things up [00:30:01] like that, the turnout must be around 4.2, [00:30:04] 4.3 for you to be able to expect change, because we will [00:30:08] have, I assume, around 2% [00:30:12] invalid votes, that's what is standard more or less in all [00:30:16] previous elections, because we can expect a certain number [00:30:19] of votes to remain below the census, which are anti-regime, [00:30:23] we'll see if there will be regime votes that will remain below [00:30:27] the census, there probably will be, is Mr. Karić, I really don't think he can [00:30:31] pass the census, and... "and anti-regime voters will not vote for him, [00:30:35] or at least most of the people who [00:30:38] will vote for Mr. Karić will not be anti-regime voters, it will be [00:30:42] interesting what happens with the SPS in the next ten [00:30:45] days and whether they pass or do not pass the census, whether it is [00:30:49] a certain census or, well, it's very difficult for me to make that [00:30:53] estimate, I would say it's not a certain census, although some data [00:30:56] lately showed that they are above the census, but it also seems [00:31:00] that