This misses the reality on the ground by recycling the same superficial narratives pushed for years.
The momentum in Serbia is not coming from the legacy opposition. Much of that political class has long treated public grievances with benign neglect, coexisting comfortably with the regime while collecting parliamentary salaries and participating in state-sponsored patronage networks financed through endless sovereign debt.
The real opposition is emerging from the streets: from grassroots organizers, students, and citizens bypassing both a government that has lost its legitimacy and an old political guard content with the status quo.
Europe also bears responsibility for refusing to acknowledge these realities while cynically enabling Serbia’s decline since 2012. Brussels has consistently offered dishonest political cover in the name of “stability,” despite democratic backsliding, institutional collapse, corruption, media capture, brain drain, mounting debt, and the steady erosion of living standards.
What’s unfolding in Belgrade is not simply an opposition failure to unite around a leader. It is a growing rejection of an entire political order sustained through mutual convenience between entrenched "elites" in Belgrade and their enablers abroad.