Professor Lompar: Vucic Deliberately Exacerbates Already Critical Situation in the Country

Milo Lompar(BETAPHOTO/Press centar UNS)

Professor at the Faculty of Philology Milo Lompar cautioned on Aug. 18 that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s actions had been designed to deliberately worsen the already critical situation in the country, reflecting the government’s inability to keep control over societal developments.

In a comment on Vucic’s promise that "in three or four days, the state will take a decisive action against students and citizens who disturb public order and peace," Lompar told BETA that the main mistake in the conduct of the regime was that it “persistently and wrongly responded to the protests with police measures.”

Lompar believes that responsibility for the violence was the regime’s, and that the president’s address on Aug. 17, when he threatened his own citizens, only "poured oil on the fire."

Professor Lompar underlined that the European Union’s approach to events in Serbia was "inappropriate", and that it appeared as tacit support for the Serbian regime, compromising seriously the idea of European values that existed beyond the EU’s organizational and bureaucratic structures.

"Along the same lines, the direct support for the regime expressed by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has compromised not only Russian politics, but also the traditional Russophile sentiments of the Serbian people. Likewise, a failure to walk out of the Parliament of Serbia by opposition parties appears as if they, too, do not want to challenge the legitimacy of the regime," Lompar said.