2008-05-29

Tremblez, tyrans et vous perfides


A few people may have been surprised about the gesture yesterday on the part of SRS, DSS and SPS to declare that they have reached an agreement to form a city government for Belgrade. Obviously the symbolic importance of controlling the local government in a city where these parties have never won an election (not this time either) would be hard to overstate.

When symbols are in question, respond with symbols. DS strategist Dragoljub Mićunović rushed to remind people that mayors can be removed by the city assembly, which people in his party have known since 1997. And the head of the assembly hurried to choose a late date for constituting the new assembly: 14 July. The date should be meaningful to the SRS candidate for mayor Aleksandar Vučić (try his delicious squid recipe!), who as information secretary in the Milošević regime controlled the media outlet known to everyone at the time as "TV Bastille."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Bio sam zdravo dete tako da roditelji, osim u jednoj prilici, nisu imali problema sa mnom. Dok me je majka Angelina dojila iskliznuo sam joj iz naručja i slepoočnicom udario u špic fotelje

A head injury at early age really does explain some things about Vučić...