Together, the three of them have far more parliamentary experience than Serbia has in the years of the multiparty system - but they could only watch the new convocation of the parliament on television.
Nor did Gordana Čomić, who has two decades of parliamentary experience as a member of parliament, but also as vice-president of the parliament, do that on the day of the constitution of the Assembly.
"The biggest drawback of this convocation is the 150 deputies for whom this is their first mandate, and in immature democracies this often happens - in Serbia it is this convocation, in 2014, 2012 and 2001.
It doesn't matter whose deputies they are - it's an obstacle for you because their first mandate is without knowledge and experience."
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Zoran Živković did not watch the parliamentary broadcast either, although he says that he followed the events surrounding the House of National Assembly and the protests of supporters of the Dosta je bilo movement.
"I don't have any particular emotions - it's all part of the political process and protocol.
There is always an ambition to be festive and memorable, but that will depend on many factors."
For the long-time deputy of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), Vjerica Radeta, the constitution of the parliament is not news.
"The establishment of the Assembly is illegal because the elections were irregular - we filed a constitutional complaint with arguments and evidence on twenty pages, and it is devastating that the Constitutional Court did not react at all."
We wanted SRS to have a parliamentary group - we would have had it and it would have been bigger than before, if it weren't for all the irregularities."
Parliamentary elections in Serbia were held on June 21, and the constituent session was held under special measures - deputies wore masks and gloves, as protection against the spread of the corona virus.
What will make this convocation different from previous ones?
Zoran Živković was a deputy of the Democratic Party from 1994 to 1998, then a representative of the same party in the Assembly of the SR Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003, and from 2014 to 2020 he represented his New Party in the assembly.
He says that in the previous convocation there were about sixty weakly active members of the opposition, but that is also changing now.
"Now the parliament will be without the opposition and it is less important whether everyone will enter the government - it is bad for the state and society, but it is also a consequence of the opposition's bad policy, an exhibition with a boycott, a repetition of a victory that no one can explain.
That gave Vučić room to behave as he wanted, and he behaves like this circus the convocation will not be ashamed, nor will it bother him - it is his natural environment."
Vjerica Radet, his opponent from long-ago parliamentary battles, agrees with Živković.
"There will be no opposition in this convocation - the public, despite the live broadcasts, will not know at all what is being done in this country, what laws the government proposes and the assembly adopts."
It will be hymns - Well done government, well done Vučić - as the progressives did in the previous convocation, the National Assembly will become a flowing boiler, and that is a national tragedy," concludes the recent SRS MP.
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And while former member of the Democratic Party (DS) Gordana Čomić agrees that the problem of "absence of political representativeness" is unsolvable until the next elections, she adds that the list of tasks for this convocation will be very challenging.
"There will be electoral changes, Serbia itself will have to adapt to the new EU enlargement methodology, it will itself have to make an effort to normalize relations between Belgrade and Pristina, not to mention the world recession.
The work of this assembly will be work during the pandemic because the corona virus will neither stop nor disappear - this is it new abnormality that we are living and this convocation of the assembly will have to find a solution for the people whose lives they will decide on", says Čomić.
From learning to a recipe for gibanica
For new MPs, doyens have different advice.
“Learn. Every day," Gordana Čomić says briefly.
For the first time, she ran in the parliamentary elections without the Democratic Party, on the list of the United Democratic Serbia, which did not even pass the reduced threshold of three percent.
"The fact that I don't have public and institutional responsibility does not mean that I will stop fighting.
I'm not a person who thinks that anyone else is to blame for the troubles we're in, and I'm not someone who doesn't know about societies that had bigger problems and solved them."
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On the other hand, the vice-president of the previous convocation, Vjerica Radeta, wondered aloud if it was even worth giving advice to the new representatives of the citizens.
"In the previous convocation, the largest number of them passed the entire mandate, only reading what was written to them.
"I once joked and said that during the break, instead of speaking, I would plant a recipe for gibanica to one of them, and I'm sure she would read it," says Radeta.
She adds that the radicals are not giving up on the political struggle outside the parliament and preparing to return to the "big stage".
Zoran Živković also announces a different political action, and reminds the heirs of the possibility of elections.
"If you're on the list, you don't have to remain an MP - you can always resign.
It's a question of character, morality, ethics and aesthetics, and these are all things that are deeply unknown to this convocation of parliament," Živković concludes.
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