Joseph: In Serbia, they fear Vuciq, if Banjska's mind goes to him immediately

President Vuciq is a classic autocratic leader, he is trying to put full control over the country and that's what we saw in the last elections, said Edward Joseph, a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, invited to PBS News Weekend.

Jozeph explained that Vuciqi's neighbour, mentor and defender within the EU is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who created a model where you have conditions of democracy, where you hold elections, but those elections are meaningless because the ruling party controls everything, domino media and opposition has weakened.

Media in Serbia, he said, are under the great domination of the ruling party, and journalists and independent activists are afraid. This is what we see in Serbia. ”

Asked by the host why special elections were held at the moment, Joseph has responded that the new early elections are the best explanation for everything and that President Vuciq is in a large part the result of the Biden administration's wrong policy.

Josephus also mentioned the events of last September in northern Kosovo “where you have NATO troops and among them American soldiers”, where a Kosovo police patrol was attacked by a group of heavily armed Serbs who were not allowed to enter Kosovo without the knowledge of Serbian authorities, and certainly immediately aroused doubts about President Vuciq”.

That attack, he added, during which there were shots fired in northern Kosovo, the killing of a Kosovo police officer and three Serb attackers, was a huge shock and showed the fact that American politics is trying to beg Vuciqi to somehow rip it apart. It didn't work for the pro-Hungarian autocratia.

That, he stressed, was the crisis President Vuciq most likely wanted to leave behind to restore his authority as the only prominent political figure in Serbia and move forward”. But it turns out it's not going to be that simple”.

When asked about American politics towards Serbia, Joseph said: “I would say it brought the situation to the threshold of”. President Beden has constantly improved the Balkans, he recognises the region. Democracy against autocratics, so the president got it right, but his administration got it completely wrong. ”

He stressed that in the Balkans we have an inequality where the US treats Serbia's neighbours much more severely with higher standards.

I should stress that we have had two violent confrontations in Kosovo during 2023, we have Crna Gotra, who is a member of NATO and where the government there is with prorus elements, and a crisis is approaching in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the beginning. for the month”

These, Joseph reiterated, are all the consequences of the Biden administration's mistakes and the way it handles Vuciqiw “according to soft standards in the belief that one can be fixed that way”.

The United States, he points out, “essentially designed fears from Belgrade, which Vuciq rightly interpreted as American weakness and is using it”. Russia's ally also benefits from this. So we have what's called a balance, but it's actually a pro-Russian policy in Belgrade and we can see it openly now”.