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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has called for a "counter-revolution" in response to ongoing student protests and accused the protesters of destroying the economy.
Vucic made the comment after thousands of people gathered in the southern city of Nis on March 1 to mark the fourth month since the deadly Novi Sad train station disaster. The tragedy has sparked months of student-led protests and led to the resignation of the prime minister and other top officials.
At a rally of his supporters in Bor on March 2, Vučić claimed that Serbia would recover after "these three months of blockades, destruction, laziness, irresponsibility and destruction." According to a report by Danas, the president expressed confidence that the government would defeat the protests and that the country would rank among the top three European countries in terms of economic growth this year.
The protests have had economic consequences, some analysts have said, including Serbia's central bank governor, Jorgovanka Tabakovic, claiming that the unrest has prevented the country from achieving an investment-grade rating from Fitch.
Recent political instability has prevented further upgrades from major international rating agencies, after Serbia received its first credit rating from Standard's & Poor's last October.
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