Vučić changes his party, but his character - not at all

Aleksandar Vučić, the formal president of all citizens of Serbia, is changing his political shirt for the third time. The so-called “Movement for the People and the State” is a new façade for the same old government, steeped in lies, corruption, and autocracy.

This is not the first time Vučić has abandoned a party he previously turned into a mechanism of personal power and plunder. He began in the Serbian Radical Party, under the patronage of his political father, a convicted war criminal. The extremist, chauvinistic, and warmongering SRS was not abandoned because it suddenly became morally unacceptable. On the contrary — personal and political interests, along with an insatiable thirst for power, were the motives for discarding that compromised banner and donning a new one: the Serbian Progressive Party.

From the very beginning, the “new” Vučić and the SNS had only one goal: to seize total power and, with it, all state resources. Under his leadership, the SNS became synonymous with systemic corruption, the brutal destruction of institutions, the abuse of public resources, party control over the media and the judiciary, and the overall criminalization of society.

Now that political crimes, scandals, arrogance, and lawlessness can no longer be concealed, Vučić is once again resorting to a pathetic political maneuver. A new name, new lies—as if that could erase decades of damage inflicted on Serbia. The “Movement for the People and the State” is nothing more than a movement to shield Vučić from political and criminal responsibility. Just another attempt to blind the public, whom he clearly holds in contempt.

The very name of the movement, with its prominent “leader” at the center, is disturbingly reminiscent of the dark ideologies of the last century: “One people, one leader, one state.” The rhetoric may differ, but the ambition is the same—total control and personal power without accountability.

While the majority of Serbian citizens struggle to survive the consequences of his regime, Vučić calmly changes his political underwear, convinced that he can wash away all the filth he has left behind. He does not clean it—he throws it away. And he expects us all to forget how it reeks.

If Serbia is truly above everything else for you, Vučić, then take responsibility. Resign, and allow those who know how and who truly want to cleanse society of the disease you have created. Enough of running to new parties, new slogans, and new lies.

We have no other country. And we are not running away.