Belgrade 3/24/ 2025
Public Statement
SERBIA MUST NOT ENTER
A HIGH SECURITY RISK ZONE,
AND ESPECIALLY NOT INTO A SECURITY VACUUM
Forum for Security and Democracy warns that the intolerance in public life continues to increase at an alarming rate towards confrontations within the country that will be increasingly difficult to control.
FSD notes that all this was made plain in a single day - in Leskovac where the President of Serbia was being booed even though he is an honorary citizen, in Nis where, due to scant information made available to the public, we witnessed numerous arrests of participants in the protests that took place there, and in Odzaci in Vojvodina where there was an irresponsible and malicious attempt to advertise a personal dispute as a bloody political confrontation that would justify the enactment of a state of emergency in the country.
FSD in such a situation is especially worried by the tendencies noticeable in the media that are the self-elected augurs and representatives of the ruling majority, and which are reacting in ways more akin to threats or public intimidation of citizens and students who have in the past several days been exposed to radical stigmatization, along with the university as a whole.
FSD, apart from such announcements by "established analysts" in such media the call for such radical measures of repression and encroachment on democratic freedoms and practices, notes such calls in the statements of notable politicians from the very top of political nomenclature of the ruling coalition.
FSD is of the view that in such a situation, snap parliamentary elections which are being forced on the public as an option, would above all else be a security risk without precedent, especially if they were to be held in conditions of a state of emergency which is being advocated by politicians who publicly promote views held by the Kremlin and previously mentioned analysts close to the government who over government-aligned media, or rather after an "social cleansing" they are hoping and increasingly calling for.
FSD for this reason calls for the forming of a new government as quickly as possible.
FSD notes and emphasizes the responsibility of the ruling majority and its political allies, as well as the President of Serbia, given that almost two months they had for consultations and searching for a new PM, have been lost in hesitation and have been completely squandered.
FSD underscores that the using of the waiting for the expiration of the legal deadline for the forming of a government in the current situation represents a security vacuum with significant risks and points out such a prolonging would leave an open space for advocates of non-democratic solutions whose goal is the long-term reshaping of the political and social situation in Serbia and it's deviation from continued integrations with the European Union and from it's proclaimed values and principles, as well as from the improvement of relations with the United States.
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