Protests are falling, so nervousness and aggression will increase, educators need to be talked to

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said today that “protests are falling thanks to their mistakes, but because of that, their nervousness, aggression and hysteria will grow”.

“We mustn’t make any mistakes, no conflicts and no intervention. If they want to study – let them study, if they don’t – they won’t,” said Vučić at the session of the Government of Serbia, which he attended at the invitation of Prime Minister Miloš Vučević.

He told the members of the government to work “only peacefully” and added that all the demands of the student protest had been met.

Today, Vučić did not agree with yesterday’s position of Vučević about educators, but instead told the ministers to initiate discussions with educators instead of disciplinary measures.

“The majority will understand when you send them a good message and show that you care about their interests and salaries,” said Vučić.

“It is easiest to apply disciplinary measures, some of these people are politically colored, but that is a smaller part,” said Vučić.

Vucevic previously threatened that educators would be fired if they insisted on a strike in the second half of the year, after January 20.

He told them to start discussions with educators after the Christmas holidays and to report to the public what they accepted from the requests.

He claims that he recently spoke with educators, but that “it’s incredible how the demands grew within 24 hours, because some of them, as political activists, thought that this was a revolution and that they won.”

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