"How will the movement in Serbia continue? According to the students of the philosophical faculty, the plan is to participate in the next elections, which Vučić has announced to make sooner than his end of term.
In the student movement there are different factions and some want to create a new party. The students in Belgrade reject this and want to form independent lists with prominent but trustworthy figures, such as university professors that have supported the movement. They said the lists are decided by the direct democratic processes at the self-organized university assemblies.
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There are a lot of similarities between Serbia and Greece, said Laura, “I have been in Greece and I’ve talked to comrades who are active in the movement for Tempi. And I think there are a lot of similarities. There is this aspect of government cover ups and foreign investments and neoliberal slashing of costs while at the same time investing in these construction and reconstruction projects that are then very useful for skimming off the top.”
There are also differences, she said. “In Greece, no institutions really formed around the protests. Like there wasn’t, in the same way that the student plenum or the citizens assemblies and so on, formed. I think that didn’t happen in Greece. And so, there wasn’t really a way to keep the continuity of this spontaneous energy going, I think in Greece there were situations before where this happened.”
The movement in Greece at the moment is at an important crossroad. Some parts of the movement are said to be considering participation in elections. Maria Karystianou, mother of one victim, Marthi Karystianou, and president of the Tempi Victims Relatives Association, has recently announced the creation of her own party. Different polls indicate that more than 15% up to 32% would vote for such a party.."
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