President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday that the opposition is urging people to join protests during a flu season while criticising him for taking pictures with a sick boy in a local hospital.

During a visit to Trstenik as part of his ‘Future of Serbia’ campaign, Vucic also told reporters that the ‘1 in 5 million’ protest is attended by “small people.”

“The more those small people attack, the more I know that I am becoming even bigger, more important and a better man because they cannot do that to a bad man, but only to someone who is much better than them,” he said.

He said that the opposition can now see “that there is somebody whom they cannot scare.”

Commenting on the information that protesters had glued stickers on a ‘City Cleaners’ employee, Vucic said he is asking himself “where is the heart and the upbringing of those people?”

“I am concerned about that wish to humiliate somebody, to glue stickers on their back. Where did you learn and see that, my son?” he asked.

He also said that the protests are not being reported on because “people in the country are afraid of the hysteria and of being attacked as the workers of the City Cleaners were last night.”

He went on to estimate that there are more people gathered at his ‘Future of Serbia’ campaign gatherings than there are at the anti-government protests.

“We had more people in Velika Srenova today than there were yesterday in Belgrade, and in Krusevac we will have three times as many tonight,” he said.