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Resignation

President Vučić has an incredible talent for parodying reality and thus, in a perverse way, subjugating it. When he makes it seem like nothing has any weight, one thinks he is a god himself. Because everything is a media fog, an illusion that he completely controls.

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Aleksandar Vučić, Photo: Reuters
Aleksandar Vučić, Photo: Reuters
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The show with the resignation is another theatrical (exclusively theatrical, actually) act by the great actor and director of everything and anything in Serbia. A naive person would think that this resignation is a way to Vucic save Serbia from itself, but that is far from naivety, no matter how much it is counted on in this political equation.

Another one of those acts intended to create an impression of normality in a radically humiliated society.

President Vučić has an incredible talent for parodying reality and thus, in a perverse way, subjugating it. When he makes it seem like nothing has any weight, one thinks he is a god himself. Because everything is a media fog, an illusion that he completely controls.

Even one of the basic concepts of political practice, the concept of resignation, is parodied, turned into its opposite, even. This is a resignation by which the one announcing it sends the message - you will never get rid of me, I will never leave you.

That is for political theory, at least for some branch where bizarre things are recorded - Vučić's power, he believes, in Serbia is so great that even resignation cannot diminish or diminish it. And after resignation - Vučić! That's how it would sound in Tito's time. Only, in Tito's time, people like this were only possible as tavern entertainers for the working people. He's the kind of guy who, if you pay him a drink, will happily explain how he could solve any problem in two days, and of course, return all Albanians to Albania "immediately"...

In his case, resignation doesn't really mean anything. Like anything else. A mere pre-election ornament with which the ruler wants to paint a picture of his own, galactic significance.

Like those resignations Đukanović at one time or Putin in rotations with Medvedev, his Brnabićka.

In current performances, you see a man who has already been executed in his own deceptions and frauds, a politician who sincerely believed that he was bigger than politics. An endless political-media ego orgy. Which, finally, might backfire on him. Because, that's usually how it is - in the end, the price of losing touch with reality is paid. Autocrats are like a balloon - they are the biggest before they burst...

His government (which persistently mobilizes the worst) has become too heavy a burden for Serbia, it is a toxic relationship that is destroying the future of a state and a society.

One of the words that is very common in Serbia these days is "lustration".

When Vučić's opponents talk about lustration, it may seem to some that this is a common refrain of political campaigns. By the way, I think that we and everyone in the region would have been better off if a thorough lustration had been carried out everywhere a quarter of a century ago, but it wasn't. That's why we have the return of old ghosts.

However, insight into the work and influence of Vučić's media gives the impression that at least media lustration would be necessary in Serbia. When you see how the "blockade" and the Student List are treated, as well as other dissenters, especially if they have any connection with Montenegro, sometimes you get the impression that they would also Levels blushing at what the Serbian president's propagandists are doing. It's sad when you see that this type of shameful activity has not bypassed even the once famous media, which even during the infamous communism at least tried to save face... Of course, Vučić's resignation will not change anything here either.

That mud will not dry up quickly. The fact that the Student List is headed by a Serb of Montenegrin origin has given an unexpected boost to the anti-Montenegrin hysteria in the Serbian media. Obviously, when they need it, they seem to know full well that it is not the same.

Since we're in the mud zone, it looks like Vučić doesn't have to worry - Putin and Pipun are with him. Enough. That everything is clear to everyone.

The word "resignation" is derived from the verb "to leave".

But, the question is not whether Vučić will leave Serbia alone - he will not, outside of that equation (me-state) he is nobody and nothing...

The real question is whether Serbia will finally let Vučić go. So that he can see. It's time.

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