Belgrade "on fire" from protests, Vucic makes a scary warning, the Serbian prime minister is ready to resign, this is why the country risks going to elections very soon

It seemed like an "outrage" that would pass after three days, but the Serb protests have turned into an increasingly serious challenge for President Aleksandar Vucic, perhaps the biggest he has faced since coming to power 11 years ago. . Tens of thousands of people protested in Belgrade again yesterday with hundreds of messages on banners against President Vu?i?, many of them calling on him to resign, for the first time. There was even a hanging doll with his image, however the president said that he is not impressed. "My job is to put up with such nonsense. I am the president of the republic and my duty is to endure even death threats. They do it every day. There are more than 200 death threats directed at me every day. When you are president, you have to learn to tolerate", said Vucic.

New choices

Yesterday, Vucic repeated his position that he will not allow the formation of a transitional government. Serbian media reports that he emphasized that he is ready to go to the elections in Belgrade, but there will be several more elections. "There will be no transitional government as long as I am the president of the republic, or as long as I am alive. Or my mandate may be terminated as was proposed yesterday before the assembly," the Serbian president emphasized. He explained his position by saying that the transitional government "it will not be the government of Serbia, but the government of interest groups". "This government would destroy Serbia in six months, seven or eight times faster than DOS-I", he said at the Police Day celebration. the prime minister of the country, Ana Brnabi?, has followed the same line. She too has been asked to leave her post, and she, unlike Vu?i?, expressed readiness to make it concrete, to resign at any moment, but added that the president of Serbia "for the moment rejects" this possibility. She wrote on Twitter that the Serbian Progressive Party is ready for elections. "Vucic knows this and at the moment refuses. He can change his mind, there is no problem, we are always ready for elections", Brnabi? wrote on Twitter. She also reiterated that "of course she remains loyal to Serbia and Vu?i?".

The demands of the opposition

Speaking about the demands of the protest, Vu?i? noted that some of them have been fulfilled while some can be discussed at all. He recalled that the Serbian Minister of Education, Branko Ru?i?, has resigned and emphasized that from this week the reality show on Tv Pink will be closed. As for Bratislava Gasi?, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Vu?i? said that he would never allow the dismissal his. “They want to take down one of the best of us, for what? The police could not prevent the tragedy in Ribnikar, the police did their job. There is no one in the world who would accuse the police and state leadership of such a thing. Not to mention calls for protests. It will go down in the history of stupidity," the president emphasized, adding that Gashiq cannot be replaced, just because this is "someone's whim."

The fifth protest

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Serbia's capital on Saturday for the fifth time in a month, after two mass killings shocked the nation. The crowd, chanting slogans against President Vucic, marched through the streets of Belgrade to gather in front of his headquarters in the center. University students led the parade, holding a banner reading "Serbia against violence!" Saturday's protest, likely to be the largest yet, was somewhat different from previous ones. Freelance journalists covering the parade saw right-wing groups infiltrated to promote their nationalist agenda. Analysts say some of the groups have close ties to the Serbian security service. Some of the attackers wore T-shirts with the Russian inscription Z, a symbol of Russian aggression in Ukraine.