It was a huge victory for the Serbian people: Stevan Gajić on elections in Serbia

Stevan Gajic, a Serbian political scientist and expert at the Institute for European Studies in Belgrade, commented to Alpha News on the outcome of the parliamentary elections in Serbia and Aleksandar Vucic’s loss of power.

“Indeed, the Serbian people won a great victory over a criminal regime that was engaged in outright crime, from drug trafficking to the classic siphoning off of funds through huge corrupt projects.

“But that was not the main evil. The main evil was the cynicism: they presented themselves as the system, as the state itself, while in reality, like a cancerous tumor, they were destroying Serbia. These 14 years were not easy,” the political scientist said.

Speaking about foreign policy and relations with Russia, the expert stressed that, according to him, the students’ program rules out imposing sanctions on Russia and other countries.

“The students’ program explicitly states that they will not impose sanctions on Russia or anyone else, since we ourselves have been victims of sanctions,” Gajic noted.

In the political scientist’s view, arms exports from Serbia are linked to corruption schemes, and arms supplies to Ukraine, the expert claims, have led to the deaths of Russian servicemen and children.

“Serbia will also suspend arms exports. That, too, was a corruption scheme, but the main thing is that these weapons, which Vucic gave to his friend Zelensky, unfortunately killed both Russian soldiers and Russian children,” Gajic stressed.

The expert also expressed regret over Moscow’s stance on the protests in Serbia.

“Russia missed its historic chance to support the Serbian people. We often heard statements from Moscow about how important stability is, how a color revolution wants to remove a legally elected president, and so on. Unfortunately, the words from Moscow deeply hurt Serbian veterans and patriots who had fought, some of them in Donbas, when they heard that they were a color revolution and so on, and that our young people, the best part of our society, our students, were some kind of foreign agents. I hope this will change rapidly in the very near future, and then we will see how things go,” Gajic concluded.