Today’s local elections in Serbia – in Mionica, Negotin and Sečanj – were a snapshot of that reality: fraud, intimidation, assaults on observers, and mobs operating with police complicity.
We believe democracy cannot survive without accountability. Vučić’s regime threatens both.

He is looking for a way into the Trump circle. But, funnily enough, Trumpists and MAGAs have kept him at arms length away despite his various attempts to mingle with them and buy himself in.

Next gvmt should annul this corrupt lex specialis as a matter of priority.

And they're gonna stack it with friendly* academics, to create a safe haven for pro-SNS party line of thought.

The first, interim dean will be a party loyalist, of course.

legitimate reasons (collapse of the governing coalition, inability to form a majority etc) but for the perpetual campaign that kept the party on the line, media disciplined and institutions captured, to bolster the populist appeal, with immeasurable irregularities on each and every election cycle.

The gvmt will welcome these comments, as it is showing its party base - right wing, pro-Russian - that it has the support of an "ally". And this is the best gvmt Russia can get in Serbia.

To Western ears, the gvmt sings a tune of a "centrist gvmt trying to manage a complicated social situation".