Sociologist: Vucic a Ruler with No Sense of Moderation, Opposition Irresponsible

Ratko Bozovic (Photo: PrintScreen YouTube)

Ratko Bozovic, a sociologist, warned on Sept. 7 that Aleksandar Vucic was ‘a ruler with no regards for anything or a sense of moderation,” whose innuendos about leaving the leading post in the ruling party were just pulse surveys of sorts, to gauge reactions within the party, and if he really planned to leave, he would have done it immediately, like Tomislav Nikolic did.

Bozovic has said for the Nova newspaper that the birth of a new organization, a block or association of several political groups might be a reason for Vucic to step down as the Progressive chief, but it wouldn’t solve anything, because “even too much is too little for Vucic,” he doesn’t need to account to anyone, and everything he does is only met by only feeble resistance by the opposition.

Bozovic believes that Vucic is buying time, in order to figure out a way out of the deadlock he has driven Serbia into. “He’s in no rush to set up a new cabinet, because he doesn’t need one. He’s a prime minister and everything else he needs to be. Institutions are redundant in Serbia, and only cost money, just like democracy. Democracy doesn’t live in Serbia, it’s just a word,” Bozovic explained.

As for the opposition, the sociologist said that he had noticed a stronger right wing, whereas the rest of the opposition was increasingly fragmentized, because of opposition leaders. “The ease of their irresponsibility is hard to grasp and intolerable, as is their vanity, lack of a sense of unity and tolerance, as well as their oblivion to the consequences of growing right-wing extremism,” Bozovic has cautioned.