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00:00:00We are watching this because for the first time,
00:00:02SNS is entering the campaign without
00:00:05that aura of invincibility,
00:00:08absolute control of everything. This is the first time we see them in a slightly
00:00:12different atmosphere, a slightly different, I mean, in a slightly
00:00:15different role. They
00:00:18still, even though the whole situation has changed, even though these are the
00:00:21first elections where they practically
00:00:24have a competitor who,
00:00:27in terms of ratings, is somewhere there, has come very close to them, if
00:00:31not equalized, at least at some moments.
00:00:34They still use, for now, what we've seen are some old
00:00:38tricks which no longer
00:00:41seem so almighty and so
00:00:44effective a way to solve the
00:00:47whole situation, in advance and even before the campaign,
00:00:51so now we are actually entering an uncertain campaign. On the
00:00:54other hand, we also have students who are largely hiding their strategy,
00:00:58they haven't shown it, they haven't... shown the list either, so we don't even know
00:01:01what exactly to expect from them now.
00:01:05So we have a new situation where we actually have
00:01:09you're in the a perception of President Vučić and SNS as
00:01:12completely different, in a different role than we are used to in the
00:01:16past ten or more years. And if you say that in
00:01:20such a situation old tricks are applied,
00:01:23who are they aimed at? At the existing voters? Is the
00:01:27goal to keep those who had them before? Is the goal
00:01:31to win new ones? What is the goal? Well, first of all, I think that
00:01:34they can hardly win any new ones in this kind of
00:01:38atmosphere and after so many years of power,
00:01:41of state capture, it's hard for them to inspire some
00:01:45new ones, and even if we're talking about
00:01:47some uh, some
00:01:51extra-electoral, illegitimate, illegal
00:01:54course, it's hard for them to find enough people, or
00:01:58some new people. So they are primarily defending
00:02:02what they had until now. I have no doubt that their
00:02:05pool, that reservoir
00:02:08of voters is quite threatened and they have to defend it,
00:02:11so I think that primarily in the previous period,
00:02:15their activities were
00:02:19aimed at consolidating those people. - On the other hand, we now see
00:02:23what they traditionally do. We see, for example, this
00:02:27from your report, we saw this so-called "people's
00:02:30campaign," meaning he is a man of the people and he has gone among the people, with the
00:02:33fact that after all his other roles,
00:02:37statesmanlike and party, that all-powerful role,
00:02:41he seems quite, he actually seems uncomfortable, and in every such
00:02:44contact he physically looks like he would
00:02:48prefer to leave. Do you think fishing, singing in
00:02:51the car, petting animals, all this we've
00:02:55seen now, and finally, this kolo
00:02:58at Rasim Ljajić's place, that it is the answer to the students and what we see from
00:03:02them? Yes, yes, I mean, I suppose now they
00:03:05have a certain number of voters for sure who
00:03:08are now insecure, and now I suppose that this part of the campaign
00:03:12is dedicated to them.
00:03:16And yes, it is now probably in contrast to the
00:03:19students who are cheerful, it brings hope, enthusiasm,
00:03:23and in some way, people have given themselves permission to trust
00:03:26them, because with politicians everywhere in the world, there is a problem
00:03:30of trust, because they behave, I mean, people perceive them
00:03:34as traveling salesmen, as if it's some kind of transaction.
00:03:37Now the student movement, or as people
00:03:40often say, the children have given them this
00:03:44space to trust them, because they, I mean, don't ask for anything, they
00:03:48came here to fight for their future, for our future, for staying in the country, so
00:03:51people somehow gave themselves a break, and now this
00:03:55whole negative, negative feeling towards the sphere of politics
00:03:59somehow broke through, some hope, enthusiasm, something beautiful, and
00:04:02students are riding that wave of some, of some openness
00:04:05of people towards such
00:04:08an emotion now in the public space.
00:04:12On the other hand, simply someone who has
00:04:15until now been what is called a strong man in theory,
00:04:19in practice
00:04:22simply cannot respond from this position, from all these, I mean, he
00:04:26cannot personally, and not enough time has passed
00:04:30from his previous role as this very, very
00:04:34strong solver of everything before going to the elections
00:04:38and polling stations. Now he is trying
00:04:41to compensate for his lack of humanity, or the lack
00:04:44of humanity of the role he previously had. So now we are watching these
00:04:48somewhat clumsy attempts
00:04:51to approach people and present himself as one of them. On the
00:04:55other hand, then what target group do you see as primary
00:04:59for the student list? For the student list, so that a victory
00:05:02can be achieved? Is it the abstainers so far?
00:05:06Is it the undecided voters? Is it the current voters
00:05:09of the Serbian Progressive Party? The same ones
00:05:13that the president is trying to keep with all these mechanisms
00:05:16you just talked about? Uh, well, it's a bit of
00:05:20all of them, all of these groups. I am sure that the students have drawn
00:05:24some milder abstainers for whom it is not a life's, a life's
00:05:27decision not to vote, not to engage in politics. There is a certain percentage of such people, but
00:05:31they are simply difficult, they are in a completely non-political, non-historical
00:05:35process in their heads, so they are difficult. But on the
00:05:39other hand, there are some milder abstainers who are certainly students.
00:05:42They have already attracted them for the reason that they are new, that
00:05:46they don't have, as they say, "butter on their heads," that they don't have
00:05:49a party past.
00:05:52Uh, on the other hand, yes, there are probably
00:05:55a certain number, it's not a very large number of former voters of SNS,
00:05:59or those who are now declaring that they will probably vote, but are not sure they will
00:06:03vote. There is a pool of voters that students could reach,
00:06:07but you said there are not many such voters. Uh, there are not many for...
00:06:10Then it shows, I think it's, now I haven't seen since all this happened
00:06:14with the opposition, although all of that now requires new research because it's a new
00:06:18political situation, a new context.
00:06:21Uh, so this will now be seen how
00:06:25it is distributed and what the atmosphere is among this
00:06:27anti-regime uh, you actually said, if I'm not mistaken,
00:06:31that in an atmosphere of great political
00:06:34divisions, there are fewer and fewer undecideds. I, for
00:06:38example, remember that a large study was done, a really large one, before
00:06:42the 2023 elections. Back then, the expectations were not
00:06:46like this, there were expectations that in big cities something might happen,
00:06:50that is, that power might change in big cities. At that time, I remember there were
00:06:537-8% undecideds in that big study right before the elections.
00:06:57So there are fewer and fewer, this is no longer the situation we had in the
00:07:0090s, when there were
00:07:0320, 30% undecideds, and simply campaigns were then directed at
00:07:07them. Now it's a slightly different case within this electoral
00:07:11is, so we will
00:07:14see how that will be realized
00:07:18on election day itself. On the other hand, there are those voters, there were
00:07:22some in previous surveys who are not
00:07:25sure of their choice, they are not sure who they will say they will
00:07:29vote for, but there are also them, I mean, it's amazing that both among
00:07:33students and among
00:07:35SNS, in this situation, it was around 80 and
00:07:39over 80% of sure voters, which is quite a lot.
00:07:42Which is quite a large number before the election, that means people are determined to go out,
00:07:46but there are still about twenty percent who are not so sure, and they
00:07:50will decide, what will decide the winner of these elections? Well, I think that,
00:07:54because I imagine that for students it is actually most important, because we have
00:07:58this situation here uh that you have on one
00:08:01side a political option that absolutely controls the entire electoral
00:08:05process, both in the diaspora, in Republika Srpska,
00:08:08and here at polling stations and in institutions, and it has...
00:08:12that power that it, I mean, first has a party infrastructure and people
00:08:16who go out and call people,
00:08:20drive people, all that students don't have. Students, on the other
00:08:23hand, have this general mobilization, that
00:08:26enthusiasm, but the problem now for that enthusiasm is to really
00:08:29bring it to election day, to the polling station, because
00:08:33they don't have such, I mean, for now they don't have or it's not visible,
00:08:36this kind of electoral structure, this, or rather, this kind of electoral machinery.
00:08:40So for students, it is important to... bring all these people
00:08:43who are now supporting them to the polling station on October 25th.
00:08:47So we will now see
00:08:51the struggle of enthusiasm and mobilization on one side and control
00:08:54of the process on the other side, and potential electoral irregularities, because we know
00:08:58how local elections looked, how local elections looked, but that
00:09:02is a separate topic, let's stick to the campaign and what
00:09:05will happen until the elections. Do you think that
00:09:09those scenes, first the queues for collecting signatures for the student
00:09:13list, then the submission of the student list itself,
00:09:16that that was somehow a turning point that
00:09:19set the trajectory for the continuation of this campaign, that with what
00:09:23we talked about at the beginning, how SNS conducts its campaign, that this
00:09:27is now the first time that actually one
00:09:29opposition force, the student list,
00:09:32is defining the campaign, that somehow
00:09:35it is the one that people are looking at? Yes, there are campaigns that
00:09:39happen like that, where that energy pulls...
00:09:42the strategy, not just the submission of the list, that enthusiasm and
00:09:46dancing the kolo in front of RIK, but also before
00:09:48that, those queues for signing up, where
00:09:51people again awakened what we call the "kiflica period," where again
00:09:55people uh, what, for
00:09:58example, uh probably no longer exists with SNS and
00:10:02doesn't exist in that way, that people for the first
00:10:05time came into a situation, I mean, for the first time again came into a situation
00:10:09to build that identity of belonging to that one
00:10:12community, that they found themselves on the street, fighting for the same
00:10:16thing, created that sense of belonging to each other and
00:10:20belonging to that identity which is then so
00:10:23motivating, more than any
00:10:25message that students can send at that moment.
00:10:29So they are actually riding a wave more than it
00:10:32is this something that they could artificially produce
00:10:36from some election headquarters. In that atmosphere, what
00:10:40uh what effect does what is called a referendum
00:10:44atmosphere achieve? And the fact that these elections are seen as
00:10:47a day when the most important
00:10:51decision is made, as a day that changes where actually
00:10:55the resolution of this two-year crisis we
00:10:58are living is somehow expected. Well, the referendum itself, as
00:11:01if we avoid that, and the referendum atmosphere, the referendum itself
00:11:04is simpler for voters, because for
00:11:07voters who are not involved in politics, who are not in this
00:11:11sector of ours where we really deal with news and campaigns every day,
00:11:14it's easier for them when it's a referendum at stake, it's easier to make a decision,
00:11:18it's easier, they don't have to inform themselves whether they are allowed to vote for an opposition
00:11:22party or not allowed to vote or whether they should... count
00:11:26now those who are not so adept at don't worry about whether
00:11:29they will be judged or not.
00:11:32They always like a referendum atmosphere because they
00:11:36simply have a simpler situation. At referendums,
00:11:39regardless of elections, turnout is always higher because it's approximately one question
00:11:43that is asked. It's not a question of politics, it's not a question
00:11:46of the European Union or Russia, it's not a question of these complex political
00:11:50issues. That's why there is a possibility that if
00:11:53that referendum [atmosphere] is created, which we are already seeing a lot of,
00:11:57it will be simpler for people to decide more easily to go out, regardless of the fact
00:12:00that there are more lists participating in the elections, so there are not just two.
00:12:04That atmosphere, that effect can actually
00:12:07be achieved. We'll see what happens with these so-called phantom
00:12:11and less-phantom lists, which we already have. That's why I say these are
00:12:14already old tricks. For example, it's interesting to me now that Rasim has
00:12:18two parties coming out, even though he is no longer the president of one, but now he is coming out as
00:12:22a minority party. That is one of the novel, interesting things, but
00:12:26I mean, at the level of electoral fraud, I mean, such
00:12:30things will happen to us, but we are somehow already used to it. That's why I say
00:12:34these are quite old tricks. For the end, I just want to ask you about the opposition
00:12:38parties. Yesterday, uh,
00:12:40so the coalition of pro-European parties submitted
00:12:44their electoral list to RIK.
00:12:48Uh, previously we heard that
00:12:51some prominent members of the Srce party,
00:12:55SSP, either left the presidency
00:12:58in the case of Srce, or left the list in the case
00:13:01of SSP. First, I want to ask you what you think about that, what kind of
00:13:05effect this withdrawal of some of their members can have
00:13:09on their results? Well,
00:13:11as far as the opposition is concerned, I don't belong to the part
00:13:15that is happy about this situation, because in the last few years, our country
00:13:19has still created some kind of party system. We had some
00:13:22new parties with new faces who managed to join
00:13:26European party families, to build some relationships, some structures. So I
00:13:30hope that at least some people who
00:13:33uh uh who have profiled
00:13:36themselves, who have made some careers or
00:13:39some uh ratings, let's say, their political
00:13:43identities, will survive this period,
00:13:47will continue to engage in politics. But what I criticize opposition parties for is that
00:13:51they missed the moment to create some kind
00:13:54of format where precisely those people who,
00:13:57at least among this anti-regime side,
00:14:00had some ratings, managed to form
00:14:04a formation that is favorable for this moment and to be
00:14:07some kind of support, uh, support for the student
00:14:11list. Uh, so now in this
00:14:14referendum atmosphere, under such pressure, I don't
00:14:17see that opposition parties who are
00:14:21still determined to participate can
00:14:23create space for themselves. The atmosphere will be like it was in 2024 for
00:14:27that part of the opposition that participated. More will be said about why you
00:14:30are participating than what you are offering, who the people are and what is being done. So
00:14:34I think it will be difficult for them to get out of the discourse that is now
00:14:37imposed on them.
00:14:45For Arilje raspberries, few people don't know, or maybe
00:14:48I'm wrong. For the clean river that beautifies nature
00:14:52and gives life to everything, and above all, to man. "It would be good
00:14:55to know. So we have where to grow something,
00:14:59plant in this healthy soil, right? We drink clean water and all
00:15:03that, yet we are not, we are not aware of it.
00:15:06So-called builders of dams and what
00:15:09not smelled mountains. This is a project, imagine,
00:15:13from the 80s still. Imagine a country where,
00:15:16let's say, almost 50 years nothing has changed to
00:15:20find some other sources of supply. That dam shouldn't
00:15:23have been..." Here we could have
00:15:27used that water without a dam,
00:15:30as it is still used today.
00:15:34The nature protection procedure in Serbia typically lasts
00:15:37about nine years.
00:15:41The material aspect, even after proclamation,
00:15:44represents a significant
00:15:47item.
00:15:50According to Protected Planet website, we are in
00:15:5339th place out of 40 European
00:15:56countries.
00:16:00It is extremely important to protect it due to the diversity of plant
00:16:03and animal life found within these protected areas.
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