All of the political parties found in the Serbian political arena choose over the long past times to fight issues only in the realm of internationals affairs (EU
Accession and Kosovo) while they all kept silence on the set of important domestic economic
and social issues. For long time this sort of hijack of the agenda went on and it was on of the biggest problem as the Serbia's this way stated problems were rightly so internationally
perceived as international problems too thus providing to Serbia a false sense
of self-importance and escapism for Serbian political elites into the realm of competitiveness
within the foreign policy away from the reall problems at home. Differing on their policies domestically was something thus nobody expected as they were busy elswhere, in Kosovo and in Brussels.
Once this fade and it will, we thought before, some sort of sobering will be inevitable. This change will turn elites away from foreign to domestic politics, from old rhetoric to new policies, and give space for transformation of new values into workable visions. For too long time only governments were changing and not much else. The chief problem being than none of the political forces in Serbia is ready for this. Not even those lib-democratic political forces who loudly claim they were.
All this now has changed. But ironicaly not by those we expected thos from but from the 1990s vilians, the ex Radicals and the Socialists. They reps in the new 2012 government showed by now that the above stated may come to the end by next year or so. Shuttered Democrats and Libdems are now left to watch somebody else do what they should of doen and hopefuly use this time to reinvent and come back at the next elections. With this prospect one could argue that the political transition in Serbia to a real electoral democracy has happened at last.
Once this fade and it will, we thought before, some sort of sobering will be inevitable. This change will turn elites away from foreign to domestic politics, from old rhetoric to new policies, and give space for transformation of new values into workable visions. For too long time only governments were changing and not much else. The chief problem being than none of the political forces in Serbia is ready for this. Not even those lib-democratic political forces who loudly claim they were.
All this now has changed. But ironicaly not by those we expected thos from but from the 1990s vilians, the ex Radicals and the Socialists. They reps in the new 2012 government showed by now that the above stated may come to the end by next year or so. Shuttered Democrats and Libdems are now left to watch somebody else do what they should of doen and hopefuly use this time to reinvent and come back at the next elections. With this prospect one could argue that the political transition in Serbia to a real electoral democracy has happened at last.
