Whenever the Minister of the Interior, Aleksandar Vulin, comes to the Assembly, he fulfils the expectations of the MPs and they return the favour. A layer of the Serbian world, a layer of divisions on a national basis with the obligatory remark that this is not the intention, a layer of admiration for the President Aleksandar Vučić.

On such a day, when five international agreements were on the agenda, notions bearing the adjective Serbian were mentioned 158 times; and Vučić was praised 90 times.

“If you are referring to the Serbian world, I firmly believe that the creation of the Serbian world as a unique political nation is an essential need of Serbs and there is no threat in that.”

“Usually, those who have not finished ethnic cleansing have a problem with the Serbian world, so even those 4% of Serbs bother them. They usually have a problem with the Serbian world. The Serbian world is my idea, it is not the idea of the Government of the Republic of Serbia. The Parliament of the Republic of Serbia has never declared itself on it, it has never voted on anything like that.”

“You could have been more creative when giving a name. You copied that from Turkey. Turkey is the first country to officially choose the term Turkish world, and they even have a Ministry for the Turkish world. I don’t know why you are fascinated by Turkey.“

“You know what happened when President Vučić went to pay tribute in Srebrenica, and when Izetbegović came to Belgrade, he went for a walk down Knez Mihailova Street, no one said an ugly word to him.”

“Every day and with every move we make, we try to contribute to the international reputation of Serbia and the preservation of peace and stability in the region. This is probably why you have been a political partner of both Aleksandar Vučić and the SNS for years.“

“I cannot but congratulate the representatives of the Serbian List on a convincing victory in the October 17th elections in Kosovo and Metohija, and these elections have shown that Serbs are united when they are found in the most difficult situation, and that they believe in the policy of the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.”

“On the one hand, you have thieves, fraudsters, layabouts with bank accounts in Mauritius and in another 56 countries, led by Dragan Đilas and Vuk Jeremić, on the other you have you have a majority Serbia, normal people, who live from their work and who are led by Aleksandar Vučić.”

At such sessions, the fact that the non-parliamentary opposition was mentioned in a negative tone only about 70 times can be presented as progress.

For the Open Parliament, Mirjana Nikolić