The election campaign is in full swing and is almost no different from the previous ones. Analysts and journalists were asked to comment on which topics dominate, whether there are new ideas we can hear and how many new faces are on the candidate lists.
The focus of the campaign of almost all political subjects participating in the elections was determined even before the official start of the campaign, which only confirmed it, Tanja Topic believes. So far, she added, we have not seen a program that would offer solutions to improve the standard of living or stop the population from leaving.
“It’s about ranks, mobilizing citizens and voters according to national identity and national feelings. What we haven’t seen is a vision, that is, an offer of a concrete solution to get out of this crisis,“ said Tanja Topic, political analyst.
Journalist Zoran Kresic did not get a different picture either. A repeat of a repeat of a campaign that does not abound with younger candidates or messages that would indicate the obligations of the future government towards the citizens.
“One campaign that will end on those familiar premises – hatred, inciting tension, inciting fear. Based on that, you force voters from your fold to go to the polls and choose your candidates,“noted Zoran Kresic, journalist.
Political actors cannot, do not want or know how to offer anything new, because they work according to a pattern that has lasted for 30 years, says sociologist Esad Bajtal. Instead of a campaign in the true sense of the word, the scene is a hunt for votes with standard elements.
“There is a chase, hunting called a chase, there are well-trained angry search dogs and there are chasers. The chasers are the politicians, these ethnic, clero-ethnic politicians, they are the chasers, and their angry search dogs are paid ideologically obsessed bots that we meet on social networks, public media, portals, their newspapers, televisions and everywhere else,“explained Esad Bajtal, sociologist.
The million dollar question is how to expect different results under the same conditions. Professor Bajtal thinks that the only way for that is to prevent election theft, which, in his opinion, is in the hands of the international community, BHRT writes.
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