Winner Vučić, a right-winger in fear of the right-wing

Aleksandar Vučić, the new/old president of Serbia, said in his first address after the election: "Serbia has moved dramatically to the right."

This is the most important statement on the otherwise expectedly boring night of announcing the election results. Everything was clear, except how much the extreme right would take.

When a declared, and proven, right-winger makes a statement about his concern about Serbia's dramatic shift to the right, which is already majority on the right, it is easy to conclude that it is already clear that, even though he easily won the elections, it will be much more difficult for him to govern than in the previous mandate conquered land.

Vučić is constantly producing the radical right in his politics, to take over bully conflicts with dissenters and say what he thinks, but he does not want to say because of such an image of himself as a reformer in Western political circles. The West knows that this image is false, but it is quite sufficient for the level of expectations it has from Serbia, which are sanctions against Russia and the recognition of Kosovo. By fulfilling those two requirements, as far as the West is concerned, Vučić can do whatever he wants with Serbia from the inside.

The delusion he had that he could keep such a right-wing party below the electoral threshold, on the margins of the tabloids and that he could control it, turned on his head. The political weapon he has created is no longer a raging pit bull on a leash that he is holding tight, it is free, it is in parliament and it will turn against him. The war in Ukraine further radicalized political relations in Serbia and produced an aggressive pro-Russian narrative as a new political corrective to all future moves that cost Vučić.

The opposition will once again be in the Serbian parliament, which is good even though the result won is significantly lower than expected. The dissatisfaction of the citizens of Serbia is at least a double-digit percentage higher than the election result, which means that the opposition failed to articulate this dissatisfaction into a more serious political result. They themselves know why they were not convincing, and if they don't know, then they are in serious trouble, because self-love can only be allowed to the winners, not the many times defeated. It is to be hoped that parliamentary life will awaken the opposition champions from the delusion that someone will come from the side and solve Serbia's problems, because they will not.

We have to, the movement of active citizens and hard-working people has become a parliamentary party, which is excellent. The movement that for years defends the right of ordinary people to live, with courageous social activism and knowledge, will have the opportunity to control and comment as a strong corrective to the political life of Serbia at the very source of creating future decisions. It will therefore be more visible and stronger, more protected by immunity from some future hooligans under phantoms. This is a reward for the sincere and uncompromising struggle they are leading and which did not stop even during the campaign.

In Republika Srpska, Vučić won 90% of the total number of votes cast. It sends a message about what the local voters want, what kind of ruler, which means that Dodik will blow the next election. The local opposition should not be angry about that, they significantly helped Dodik to be like that, so they can consider it their success.

As for the elections in Serbia, Belgrade remains a relative unknown and who will form the government with whom, where Vučić with 39% of the votes has a much easier task than the opposition in trying to form a new government in the Serbian capital.

Realistically, one could not have expected better, with this much control of resources and brutal control of the media, Vučić had no chance of losing the elections. He was in the daily permanent campaign since the last election, he was coming out of the refrigerator, which he used as a message in the end.

On the other hand, victory in such circumstances implies a completely new arrangement of political cards and certainly does not mean an easy party as before, but a difficult political struggle that has already begun.

(6yka.com)