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Shkruar nga PamfletiAleksandar Vučić is unable to find an answer to the student protests. The young people are increasingly organized, their program is gradually taking shape, and their actions are being joined by broader social groups. But he is making great efforts to counter the "inexperienced" students with his international political weight.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić promised to call early elections last year, but has since repeatedly postponed the move, writes Hungarian newspaper Nepsava in an article titled "Serbian President Has Learned Nothing from Viktor Orbán's Mistakes."
However, time is working against him, as are repression and interventions by authorities based on fabricated reasons, the newspaper notes, claiming that Vučić is surely heading for defeat.
Demonstrators are demanding the calling of early elections and the end of the regime of Aleksandar Vučić, who has been in power for 14 years.
Aleksandar Vučić fails to find an answer to the student protests.
Since the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, Saturday's protest in Belgrade was the second largest in Serbia, the Hungarian newspaper writes, referring to the Archive of Public Meetings, based on whose estimate, between 180,000 and 190,000 people participated in Slavija Square.
However, Serbian police managed to count only 30,000, at most 34,000 demonstrators. The largest protest was also organized by students, in March, when about 375,000 people gathered.
Ahead of Saturday's protest, as on previous occasions, train traffic was suspended again to make it difficult to reach the capital. This time, the Serbian railway company announced that on the night between Friday and Saturday, it received an anonymous call regarding explosive devices placed on all trains and incoming depots.
The newspaper recalls that in March, before the parliamentary elections in that country, an abandoned backpack, suspected of being filled with explosives, was found in Hungary near the gas pipeline leading to
The usual provocation was not absent this time either.
A high security alert had been in place ahead of the protest, with several thousand riot police deployed. After the protest, clashes broke out when a small group began shooting at police, who immediately began brutally dispersing the demonstration.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that 47 protesters were arrested.
The students, the organizers of the protest, stated in their statement that several participants suffered serious injuries, while some of them ended up in the emergency room.
Aleksandar Vučić is unable to find an answer to the student protests. The young people are increasingly organized, their program is gradually taking shape, and their actions are being joined by broader social groups.
However, the president is not yet calling for snap elections, but has announced his mass rally for June at the same location on Slavija Square, where he wants to show that his camp of supporters is more numerous.
In addition, he is making great efforts to counter the "inexperienced" students with his international political weight. And his visit to China, which began on Sunday, is accompanied by just such an atmosphere: Chinese President Xi Jinping, after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, is hosting the Serbian president.
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