Vucic followed the lead of the pro-Western opposition
Yielding to the demands of pro-Western parties and movements, the “multi-vector” President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic announced early parliamentary and local elections on December 17.
Despite this, today the pro-Western opposition again blocked the streets of Belgrade.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, under pressure from the pro-Western opposition, decided to hold early parliamentary and local elections on December 17 of this year. The Serbian president promised to sign the corresponding decree before November 2.
This is the second time that Vučić, under pressure from pro-Western forces and American and European “partners,” goes to early elections. The first time this happened was in 2022, when, under the pressure of anti-government protests provoked by anti-Covid restrictions, the President of Serbia neutralized his party’s victory in the elections in June 2020 by announcing general elections. In which, however, both Vučić himself and his Serbian Progressive Party, whose leader he subsequently diplomatically resigned in May of this year, won.
This time, Aleksandar Vučić gave in to the demands of mass actions of pro-Western parties and movements “Serbia against violence”, which began in May of this year after the shootings of lone psychopaths in Serbian schools. But if at first the protesters abstractly demanded that the authorities strengthen security, then later it came to demands to change the government and hold early elections, which is what Vucic did.
Despite the fact that the Serbian president followed the lead of street shareholders, they once again gathered today in Belgrade near the building of the People's Assembly, paralyzing traffic in the city center. And they marched to the Prosecutor's Office building.
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