On 2nd of April Serbia had presidential elections in which Serbian prime minister to that date, Aleksandar Vučić, became the president of Serbia with 55% of all votes and 12% more votes than all the opposition combined. The turnout was 54.5%. 

Months prior to that he’s been launching a bombastic campaign and dominated all media, even buying main pages for the newspaper for an entire day (30.3.) and he absolutely dominated YouTube advertisements for people who are from Serbia:

It’s 3.4. and Serbian youth are unhappy with the results of the presidential elections. Serbia is protesting. Hundreds of people are flooding the streets of Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš, and the number keeps growing:

All major cities in Serbia got involved in the protests. Protesters came out with requirements that need to be met in order for protests to halt which include:

1. Disbanding members of Republic’s electoral commission for dismissing decisions of the Constitutional court 2. Replacing members of Regulatory body for electronic media for not reacting on hundreds of reports and breaches 3. Disbanding the president of the parliament Maja Gojković for blocking the functioning of the parliament during the presidential campaign 4. Replacing the chief editor of the informational program of RTS (Radio television of Serbia) because of pro-government reporting and unequal treatment of the candidates in the campaign 5. Revision of the electoral list (as it involves dead people, people’s place of residence listed on the wrong addresses…)

Police and military were also invited to join the protests.

President Aleksandar Vučić and Russian Federation reacted to the protests. Reaction from Western politicial powers is absent.

On 2nd of April Serbia had presidential elections in which Serbian prime minister to that date, Aleksandar Vučić, became the president of Serbia with 55% of all votes and 12% more votes than all the opposition combined. The turnout was 54.5%. 

Months prior to that he’s been launching a bombastic campaign and dominated all media, even buying main pages for the newspaper for an entire day (30.3.) and he absolutely dominated YouTube advertisements for people who are from Serbia:

It’s 3.4. and Serbian youth are unhappy with the results of the presidential elections. Serbia is protesting. Hundreds of people are flooding the streets of Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš, and the number keeps growing: