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EDITORIAL: WHAT IS POLITICAL
ALTERNATIVE IN SERBIA
By Sonja Biserko
As regards the process of transformation of erstwhile one-party systems
in Europe, one may assert that Serbia is a sui generis case. Namely, Serbia tried to use
monumental changes in late 20th century Europe, notably those taking place in the
Communist countries, to veer Yugoslavia once again to a centralist concept, or to leave
Yugoslavia with territories deemed the Serb ethnic ones. To coalesce the public and prime
it for the war, and not an overhaul of Yugoslavia into a genuinely democratic federation,
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CONSTITUTION OF OLCHOCRACY
By Nikola Samardzic
Serbia presently suffers from political schizophrenia that somewhat
touches on the confusion, real or imaginary, of her epic hero, Marko Kraljevic. Feeling
helpless and with nothing better to do this temporarily rebellious vassal set himself to
demolish the Sultan’s road. As it turns out, he was actually after better nestling
himself in the arms of his mother to whom he appears to be pathologically close and the
Sultan who is still his master. Serbia’s ruling elite behaves about the same. As if
when deciding to ignore democratic principles and impose... |
“EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION” A LA SERBE: PREAMBLE FOR DICTATORSHIP
By Teofil Pancic
Judging by growingly sharp public-political-media rhetoric on the eve
of “final resolution of the Kosovo issue,” Serbia hurls to disaster. Well,
that’s nothing new, we’ve got used to it. All I doubt is that we could go
through it once more – under present international circumstances, after all
we’ve already gone through, and for such disputable goals that are being imposed on
us. In what form this disaster could befall us this time? The form of a populist
dictatorship, I would say. Somewhat “softer” but not less disgusting – a
dictatorship wherein irrationality... |
“EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION” A LA SERBE:
A SUIT WITH THOUSAND PATCHES
By Ivan Torov
Out of the blue and in the atmosphere of Last Supper or flea market
haggling of a handful of party leaders Serbia was faced with a dilemma or, as many put it,
with fait accompli. What shall one do? Go to the polls and vote “for” or
“against” the constitution adopted in the “darkness of the night,” or
just boycott the whole thing for its undemocratic procedure and the lack of convincing
argumentation in favor of the imposed constitution? So, people wonder – is the manner
in which the “most democratic” and “most liberal” constitution saw the
light of day nothing but... |
AUTONOMY BULLIED INTO STATEHOOD
By Radivoj Stepanov
All the criticism below, voiced “one minute after midnight,”
do not exactly dissect Serbia’s new constitution. It’s just a reflection of the
suppressed civil society’s anguish at the regime’s cheap tricks and the
“vampire” constitution imposed on it. It’s a lament over a definitely
failed project of a civil and modern Serbia, over a unique but missed constitutional
opportunity that showed up “way back” in 2000, 2001, 2002 or 2003 and would not
show up in foreseeable future… |
“EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION” A LA SERBE: BAD FOR SERBIA, WORSE FOR
VOJVODINA
By Stanko Pihler
The arrogance the oligarchy of Serbian leading political parties
demonstrated in the parliament when adopting the highest legal act in a putschist way did
not come as a surprise. For, citizens have realized long ago how readily they would act to
humiliate both them and the institution of the Parliament. That’s how we got a kind
of imposed constitution the adoption of which paid no heed to any democratic and legal... |
