Vucic’s victory leads Serbia towards autocracy
Serbia’s newly elected president may lead the country on the same path as Turkey or Russia.
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Many analysts in post-election commentaries say that this result could be a good basis upon which a new pro-democratic opposition could be constructed.
The number of around half a million people working in the public sector is not negligible. Those people were practically blackmailed into voting for the ruling party and to keep their jobs by doing so.
He succeeded in showing the government and opposition that a not insignificant number of people have lost trust in the system.
Dusan Komarcevic
Dusan Komarcevic was born in 1986 in Belgrade, where he graduated from the Faculty of Philology’s Department for Scandinavian Languages and Literature. He has been a member of Radio Free Europe’s Belgrade office since 2012 and is a collaborator of the Belgrade magazine “LiceUlice.” From 2009 to 2014, he worked on the editorial staff of the E-novine regional internet portal.
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This story was originally written in Serbian.