Đukanović vows a new confrontation with universities if Vučić becomes prime minister

Vladimir Đukanović, a member of the Serbian Progressive Party’s presidency, says Aleksandar Vučić would face a “devilishly difficult task” if he became prime minister: carrying out a total reform of the education system.

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It will undoubtedly be his biggest challenge, because nobody has done anything in this area for decades, while the anti-Serbian nongovernmental sector has run rampant and done whatever it wanted.

Writing in the daily Politika, Đukanović said the reform would be Vučić’s biggest challenge because, in his view, nobody had done anything in education for decades. He also accused what he called the “anti-Serbian nongovernmental sector” of operating without restraint in the field.

“If nothing is attempted, in the future we will produce graduates who will know nothing about their jobs, but whose priority in life will be political rebellion,” Đukanović wrote. He said such people would become the best weapon in the hands of manipulators.

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If nothing is attempted, in the future we will produce graduates who will know nothing about their jobs, but whose priority in life will be political rebellion.

He specifically claimed that the nongovernmental sector would use them to begin taking over the state. The remarks present education reform as a political confrontation as well as an institutional challenge, tied to the possibility of Vučić moving from the presidency to the premiership.

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Such people are the best weapon in the hands of manipulators. In this case, they will be in the hands of the anti-Serbian nongovernmental sector, which will begin taking over the state through them.