University Professor: Freeing State from Particracy, Mafia a Priority

Non partisan initiative ProGlas (ProVote)Belgrade, April 17 2024 (BETAPHOTO/MEDIA CENTER BELGRADE)

One of the ProGlas organization's founders, School of Political Sciences professor Filip Ejdus said on Nov. 7 that the only way for the opposition to accomplish something was to cast aside its personal and partisan ambitions and its less important ideological differences in a situation in which the state was being held captive.

"The priority needs to be freeing the state from clutches of particracy and the mafia. People who want changes in Serbia are tired of a divided opposition which has more chiefs than Indians," Ejdus told the NIN weekly in an interview.

Speaking on Serbia's biggest problems he emphasized "the destruction of institutions and the creation of a one-party state and the tyranny of one man, who is holding all institutions captive, from the highest to local communities." He warned that as of lately there were glaring attempts to place the university as one of the last bastions of freedom and critical thought under control and that all kinds of instruments were being used to accomplish this, including student organizations.

"Serbia today is a spin dictatorship ruled with the help of an aggressive and constant distorting of facts and disinformation, the intimidation of political opponents, their ghettoization, the denial of media oxygen for all who think differently, to create a space in which a parallel realty can be reproduced," Ejdus said.