THE ATTITUDE OF FAR-RIGHT ORGANISATIONS TOWARDS MEASURES AGAINST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN SERBIA 2020–2022
THE ATTITUDE OF FAR-RIGHT ORGANISATIONS TOWARDS MEASURES AGAINST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN SERBIA 2020–2022

Author(s): Jovo Bakić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: far-right; authoritarian regime; COVID-19 measures
Summary/Abstract: The research subject is the attitude of far-right organizations towards the measures of the Aleksandar Vučić regime against the COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on the findings of previous research that right-wingers in general, extreme ones in particular, are less concerned about the coronavirus, often expressing doubts about its very existence, or considering it artificially produced and deliberately released due to a conspiracy of the elites against the people. Their attitude towards the measures taken by the Aleksandar Vučić regime against the spread of the pandemic should be in line with that. The harsher the measures against COVID-19 were, the harsher their criticism should have been. However, since some studies have shown that there have been some far-right organizations serving the authoritarian regime, it is expected that they would support all the regime’s measures all the time. Indeed, it turned out that “Srpska desnica”, “Levijatan”, “Srpska radikalna stranka”, “Srpska stranka Zavetnici” and the far-right football-fan tribes welcomed the measures, or kept silent about them (“Svetosavski savez Obraz”, which voiced its criticism only at the time of Easter, 19th April, “Srbska čast” and “Nacionalni srpski front”). However, there have also been extreme right-wing organizations that harshly criticized the measures during the state of emergency (“Srbska akcija”, “Narodne patrole”, “Zentropa”), and even radical right organizations that have been constantly doing this: “Srpski pokret Dveri”, “DjB-Suverenisti”, “Živim za Srbiju”.

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