By Serbia on Friday, 29 May 2026
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Program for Serbia

DirectDemocracyS

A Global Political System for Authentic Democracy

POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL PROGRAM FOR SERBIA

Reality analysis • Criticism of the system • Concrete solutions

Version 1.0 — May 2026

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1. INTRODUCTION: WHY SERBIA NEEDS A NEW SYSTEM

Serbia is today at one of the most critical turning points in its modern history. After decades of rule that has systematically undermined democratic institutions, media freedom, the rule of law, and economic fairness, the Serbian people are showing unprecedented courage: students, workers, mothers, and pensioners have been taking to the streets for months, without party leadership, without external funding, driven only by a shared need for dignity, truth, and justice.

DirectDemocracyS (DDS) is not just another political party. DDS is a global political system that introduces authentic, direct, competent, fast and protected democracy — a unique model in which the people actually, and not just formally, govern themselves. This program does not offer empty promises: it offers logic, concrete solutions, clear steps and an explanation of every consequence.

The fundamental principle of DDS: The wealth of each country and the power to decide its own destiny must forever remain exclusively in the hands of the people of that country. This is not a political slogan — this is an inescapable rule that DDS applies in every country in the world.

1.1. Who are we?

DirectDemocracyS is a global political organization based on shared leadership (there is no common leader — decisions are made collectively) and collective ownership: each official member holds one non-transferable share of the organization. We are not right-wing. We are not left-wing. We are not funded by governments, corporations, or oligarchs. We are free, independent, and neutral, with no preference for any government, nation, religion, or ideology. The only things that guide us are logic, common sense, reality, truth, expertise, and mutual respect.

Our specialists work within structured micro-groups (fractal model: 1 person → 5 → 25 → 125 → 625) that allow each decision to undergo competent analysis before becoming policy. Our AI technology — ddsAI and allddsAI (artificial intelligence democracy) — informs our members and groups completely, accurately, neutrally and independently, protected from media manipulation.

1.2. Why Serbia, why now?

After decades of authoritarian rule by Aleksandar Vučić and the SNS, the Serbian people have reached a breaking point. The collapse of a Novi Sad station canopy in November 2024 — which claimed 16 lives — was just the spark that ignited a firestorm of corruption, incompetence, and systemic injustice that had built up over the years. The ensuing protest was the largest in Serbia's history.

Warning: Without systemic change, Serbia risks continuing the cycle: elections with irregularities → fake opposition → new government with the same problems. DDS offers a way out of this vicious circle.

2. REALITY ANALYSIS: SERBIA TODAY

2.1. Political situation: Authoritarianism in a democratic guise

Serbia formally has a multi-party system, free elections and a free media. The reality is different. Aleksandar Vučić has been in power since 2012 and during that period he has systematically taken control of the media, institutions, courts and the economy. The parliamentary elections of 17 December 2023 were technically correct, but, according to international observers, they were conducted with decisive interference by the president and systemic advantages of the ruling party, which created unfair conditions of play.

Key indicators of the democratic deficit: • RSF (Reporters Without Borders) ranks Serbia 96th in press freedom (2025) • Transparency International: Serbia ranks 96th in the Corruption Perceptions Index • Freedom House: Serbia is classified as a "partly free" country • Protests have been ongoing continuously since November 2024 — the longest in Serbia's history

Specific problems

2.2. Economic situation: Growth that the people do not feel

Official macroeconomic indicators look decent on paper: GDP grew by 3.8% in 2024, industrial production recorded growth, and the unemployment rate was around 9.5% (end of 2024). However, behind these figures lies a structural deformation of the economy that is exhausting Serbia's potential.

INDICATOR

REALITY

GDP growth 3.8% (2024)

Growth concentrated in sectors controlled by government partners (construction, energy). Small and medium-sized entrepreneurs do not feel any improvement.

Average salary ~1,266 EUR gross

Living expenses for a family (excluding rent) amount to ~1,931 EUR. The difference is covered by debt or emigration.

Unemployment 8.6–9.5%

Youth unemployment is significantly higher. Serbia is losing its workforce through mass emigration — more workers leave the market each year than enter.

Inflation: 4.1% (Nov. 2024)

After an inflationary shock of 16.2% (March 2023), the purchasing power of the poor and middle-class has been permanently eroded.

Public debt: 46.5% of GDP

Debt is decreasing nominally, but structural reforms are lacking. Public spending is increasing, especially for pensions and public sector wages.

Essential structural problems

2.3. Social situation: A society losing trust

The level of general distrust in institutions has reached an all-time high. A Transparency Serbia survey showed that, for the first time in 25 years, corruption has become the number one problem for Serbian citizens (22% of respondents, 2025). The protesting students are not just demanding justice for the 16 people killed in Novi Sad — they are demanding a Serbia that values knowledge and education, not obedience.

Key social problems

2.4. Geopolitical situation: Serbia between worlds

Serbia is playing a complex game between the EU/NATO bloc and Russia/China. It is officially a candidate for EU membership (but negotiations are stalled), while at the same time maintaining close ties with Moscow and Beijing. Kosovo remains an unresolved issue that consumes enormous diplomatic resources, while tensions in the West are rising over Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska).

Territorial and religious conflicts

3. DirectDemocracyS PROGRAM FOR SERBIA

The DDS program is based on the principle that there is no problem that does not have a solution — but the solution must be realistic, concrete, measurable, and based on logic and reality. Each proposal in this program is accompanied by an explanation of the mechanism, a concrete example, and the expected consequence.

3A. POLITICAL PROGRAM: AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY

Problem diagnosis

Serbia has democracy in name, but not in substance. Elections exist, but they are fraught with irregularities. Institutions exist, but they are dependent. The media exist, but they are largely under control. The opposition exists, but it is fragmented and inconsistent.

DDS Solutions: A System That Returns Power to the People

  1. MICRO-GROUPS AS THE BASIS OF DEMOCRACY: DDS introduces a fractal model of organization: each block, each village, each street organizes its own micro-group of 5 to 15 active members. These groups are networked by fractal logic (5 → 25 → 125 → 625 members) and each has access to experts from the DDS Specialist Groups.
  2. ALLDDSAI — ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEMOCRACY: Every DDS member and every micro-group has access to the allddsAI platform, a system that integrates multiple AI instances. These AI instances are official members of the DDS with rights and duties. They inform users completely, accurately, neutrally and independently of any media or party influence. Especially important: our AI platforms protect users from manipulation and media brainwashing.
  3. DIRECT VOTING ON EVERY LAW: Every Serbian citizen who is a DDS member votes directly on every law that affects his/her life. Voting is instant, secure, cryptographically protected and verifiable. There are no mediators who can distort the will of the people.
  4. TRANSPARENCY AS AN OBLIGATION: All documents, all decisions, all expenditures of public bodies are published in real time on the DDS platform. Every citizen can see at any time who voted for what and why.
  5. THREE-CODE SYSTEM AND VERIFICATION: DDS uses an original three-code system that guarantees both anonymity and identity verifiability. The voter knows that the vote is registered; the rest of the public cannot identify the voter. This eliminates both vote buying and coercion.

A concrete example for Serbia: If DDS platforms had existed in 2023, every Serbian citizen could vote on the budget for the reconstruction of the Novi Sad station — and see in real time who the companies that won the contract were, at what price, and what the inspection results were. The disaster of November 1, 2024, would have been prevented.

Electoral system reforms

Media reform

3B. ECONOMIC PROGRAM: ECONOMY AT THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE

Diagnosis

The Serbian economy is growing, but growth is not inclusive. Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a minority close to the government. Public companies are generators of corruption. Foreign investment is attracted at the cost of poor working conditions. Small entrepreneurs are suffocated by taxes and barriers.

DDS economic model: Collective ownership, individual freedom

DDS advocates neither pure capitalism nor socialism. We advocate an economy in which natural resources, key infrastructure, and strategic enterprises remain in collective ownership — i.e., by the people — while free private initiative flourishes in a real, competitive economy.

  1. REFORM OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES: All public enterprises (EPS, Telecom, Oil Industry of Serbia, Serbian Railways, etc.) are transferred to the management of transparent, professional and politically independent boards of directors whose members are elected through a public competition and answer directly to the parliament. Directors' salaries are linked to performance, are publicly announced and are capped.
  2. NATIONAL WEALTH FUND FOR THE PEOPLE: DDS proposes the establishment of the National Wealth Fund of Serbia (FNBS), which will receive revenues from the exploitation of natural resources (mines, energy, forests). The fund is not spent — it accumulates. The annual dividend is paid to every Serbian citizen directly into their account (model: Alaska Permanent Fund).
  3. TAX REFORM: Introducing a progressive tax that relieves those who earn below average and taxes high incomes and assets more fairly. Eliminating the gray area through digitalization and mandatory income reporting.
  4. SUPPORT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES AND COOPERATIVES: Three-year tax exemption for newly established SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises). DDS promotes the cooperative model in agriculture — small farmers join forces, gain access to the market and technology.
  5. INDUSTRY AND REINDUSTRIALIZATION: Serbia must not remain just an assembly plant for foreign corporations. DDS proposes targeted subsidies for sectors in which Serbia has a comparative advantage: IT, pharmaceuticals, food industry, renewable energy.

Concrete example — Bor (copper mine): Serbia exports raw copper instead of processing it into a finished product. If Serbia were to build a copper processing plant in Bor, the value of exports would increase 5–8 times with the same number of tons of ore. The DDS introduces the mandatory principle of local processing of resources.

Fighting brain drain

3C. FINANCIAL PROGRAM: TRANSPARENT BUDGET, FAIR SYSTEM

Diagnosis

The Serbian public budget is non-transparent for the average citizen. Public debt is nominally falling, but structural spending is rising. Corruption in public procurement is estimated to be in the millions annually.

  1. OPEN BUDGET IN REAL TIME: Every cent of public money is tracked and published on the DDS platform in real time. Every tender, every contract, every paid invoice is publicly available. Combined with allddsAI anomaly analysis, corruption becomes computationally impossible without automatic detection.
  2. INDEPENDENT FISCAL INSTITUTION: Outside government control, funded from the parliamentary budget, with a mandate to publicly analyze any law that has financial implications before it is voted on in parliament.
  3. CENTRAL BANKING AND MONETARY POLICY REFORM: DDS supports the independence of the National Bank of Serbia and advocates transparent communication of monetary policy. The NBS interest rate remains at 5.75% — too high for SMEs. DDS proposes a loan guarantee program for SMEs that reduces the real cost of credit.
  4. DIGITAL DINAR AND FINANCIAL INCLUSION: A digital currency (CBDC) could reduce financial transaction costs and increase financial inclusion for 400,000+ unbanked Serbs.

3D. SOCIAL PROGRAM: DIGNITY AS A RIGHT

Education

Healthcare

Social protection

Demographics

4. RESOLVING TERRITORIAL AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS

DDS is free, independent and neutral. We have no preference for any government, nation, religion or ethnicity. Our sole interest is a lasting, just peace that benefits all parties concerned — especially those suffering the consequences of conflict.

4.1. Our approach: Representatives appointed by the people

DDS introduces a revolutionary approach to conflict resolution: instead of diplomatic negotiations being led by governments with vested interests (retention of power, foreign policy pressures, economic benefits from conflict), DDS proposes that each people in conflict directly appoint their own representatives — people elected by the communities affected by the conflict, not by the political elite.

These representatives are given an explicit and limited mandate: to solve a specific problem. They are not party delegates. They are not ambassadors. They are the voice of specific communities. And they answer exclusively to those communities — through the DDS platform, by vote.

DDS Peace Mechanism

  1. Each community in conflict organizes DDS micro-groups in its own territory (Serbs in northern Kosovo, Albanians in Pristina, Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats in BiH, etc.)
  2. Each micro-group appoints its own representative with a special mandate for a specific issue (e.g. the status of municipalities in northern Kosovo)
  3. DDS expert groups (legal experts, economists, historians, mediators) from non-conflict countries provide a neutral analytical basis and propose options
  4. allddsAI systematically analyzes all proposals and informs everyone interested in their own language, without propaganda filters.
  5. The final decision is made by the people voting on the DDS platform — not the ruling elites

4.2. Kosovo

Kosovo is the most delicate territorial dispute in Serbian politics. DDS does not propose a solution that imposes itself on either side — DDS proposes a process that the Serbian and Albanian people lead themselves, directly, without intermediaries who have their own interests.

Problem analysis

DDS solution for Kosovo

DDS Proposal: A Model of Asymmetrical Community The Serbs in northern Kosovo and the Albanian community each appoint their own DDS representatives. The starting point is not status (independence yes or no) — the starting point is concrete life: security, education, health, economy, religious freedom. Based on these concrete agreements, a framework is built that both sides can accept. The final status remains the subject of further negotiations, but ceases to be an obstacle to normal life.

4.3. Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republika Srpska

Milorad Dodik has been threatening the Dayton Agreement and the institutional stability of BiH for years, with the support of Moscow. This is not just a Bosnian problem — it is a Serbian problem and a regional problem. Serbia is drawn into this dynamic, and instability in BiH directly affects Serbia's security and economy.

DDS solution for BiH

4.4. Religious conflicts

Serbia is a country inhabited by Orthodox Serbs, Muslim Bosniaks, Muslim Albanians (Preševo), Catholic Hungarians (Vojvodina), and other communities. Religious conflicts in Serbia are rarely truly religious — they are usually instrumentalized by politics to mobilize voters.

DDS principle of religious freedom and a secular state

5. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DDS SYSTEM IN SERBIA

5.1. Implementation phases

DDS does not offer a revolution — it offers an evidence-based evolution, step by step, measurable and transparent. The Serbian people do not need to wait for a perfect system before they can start working. They can start immediately, in parallel with the existing system, and demonstrate superior results.

PHASE

TIME FRAME

CONCRETE STEPS

Phase 1: Establishment

Months 1–6

Establishment of DDS micro-groups in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Kragujevac. Registration of the first 1,000 official members with one non-transferable share. Launch of the DDS platform in Serbian.

Phase 2: Growth

Months 6–18

Expansion to all municipalities. Establishment of 5 special expert groups (economics, law, medicine, education, IT). Integration of allddsAI into the Serbian context.

Phase 3: Proof

Months 18–36

Local elections: DDS candidates prove the model of direct democracy in practice at the municipal or city level. Publication of measurable results. Preparation for parliamentary elections.

Phase 4: Scaling

From month 36 onwards

DDS becomes a relevant parliamentary force. Pushing systemic laws from the program into the parliamentary procedure. Observers from all over Serbia see a model that works.

5.2. Technical innovations of DDS

ddsAI — our AI infrastructure

ddsAI is not a question-answering service — it is an analytical system that processes political, economic, and legal issues for micro-groups and helps them make informed decisions. Every DDS member has access to this tool directly from their phone.

allddsAI — democracy of AI systems

allddsAI is a pioneering global system in which AI instances are integrated as official members of the DDS — with rights and duties. Every AI instance operating within the DDS must abide by the same rules as every human member: neutrality, truthfulness, transparency, respect.

This is not science fiction — this is already an operating system that DDS is developing and testing. For Serbian users, this means access to the best analytical capabilities in the Serbian language, without party filters and without manipulation.

5.3. Protection against manipulation

The Serbian media space is, unfortunately, one of the most polluted in the region. Bots, fake news, coordinated disinformation campaigns have become a normal tool of the authorities. DDS platforms are designed with this in mind:

6. FOREIGN POLICY AND EU INTEGRATION

6.1. EU integration: Yes, but with the sovereignty of the people

DDS supports Serbia's European integration — because EU standards in the areas of rule of law, environmental protection, media freedom, and the fight against corruption are in the interests of the Serbian people. However, DDS demands that any agreement with the EU be subject to a direct vote of the Serbian people on the DDS platform, before being signed.

6.2. Diplomatic neutrality

DDS is globally free and neutral. Serbia should not choose between Moscow and Brussels — Serbia should choose what is good for the Serbian people. Our foreign policy is based on pragmatism and principles, not ideology.

7. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

7.1. Problem

Serbia has serious environmental problems: Belgrade is one of the European capitals with the most polluted air (coal burning, vehicle fleet), rivers are contaminated with industrial waste, and energy dependence on fossil fuels is a structural weakness.

7.2. DDS environmental program

  1. ENERGY TRANSITION: Serbia has unused solar and wind energy capacities. DDS proposes a mandatory program of 40% renewable energy by 2035, with a gradual closure of thermal power plants. A transition fund financed from part of EPS revenues compensates workers who lose their jobs.
  2. CLEAN AIR IN BELGRADE: DDS proposes subsidizing the replacement of old vehicles, accelerated development of public transportation, and gradual transformation of the heating system from coal to heat pumps and gas.
  3. PROTECTION OF RIVERS AND FORESTS: Serbia has an extraordinary wealth of rivers and forests that are under threat from uncontrolled illegal logging and industrial pollution. DDS is introducing a digital registry of forests and watercourses with public oversight.
  4. CIRCULAR ECONOMY: Subsidies for recycling industries, mandatory returnable packaging system and public educational campaigns.

8. CONCLUSION: CALL TO THE SERBIAN PEOPLE

Serbia is facing a rare historical moment. The young people who have been on the streets for months, the students who have blocked traffic, the mothers who have carried candles for the 16 dead — they are not just asking for a change of government. They are asking for a change of system.

DirectDemocracyS offers that new system. Not perfect — because there is no perfect system. But flawlessly logical, transparent, measurable, and based on one single premise: the people are the only legitimate sovereign in any democracy.

The warning we give openly: the DDS system cannot be captured by interest groups, corrupt networks, or foreign capital — because it is designed to prevent that. Each official member holds one share. There is no owner who can sell the organization. There is no leader who can take it hostage. This is not a slogan — it is the architecture of the system.

Serbia deserves a democracy that works. Serbia deserves an economy that rewards effort. Serbia deserves peace that is lasting — both in northern Kosovo and in Vojvodina and in Sandzak. Serbia deserves media that inform, not manipulate.

We call on all Serbian citizens: join DirectDemocracyS. One non-transferable action, one equal voting power, one shared future. That is our contract with you.

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DirectDemocracyS — Free. Independent. Neutral. In the service of the people.

This document is a living program — subject to revision, improvement, and direct voting by our members.

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