The massive gathering of the supporters of President Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in Belgrade, as a part of his Serbia Future campaign, began with a vast number of people brought in from all over the country, blocking many central streets.

The big stage was installed outside the Parliament, while those who could not get close enough could listen to speakers on a large video beam.

Four hours before the official start of the rally, dozens of buses were bringing people from across the country to the capital.

The first to address the crowd will be Prime Minister Ana Brnabic.

Among the speakers are Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb politicians, currently the Chairman of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó.

Vucic is supposed to address the rally at its end.

First to address the crowd was Serbia's Prime Minister Ana Brnabic who said “we gathered here to show that Serbia is not divided country nor its society is divided.

“Serbia is one, equal and united, the country of normal and decent people in which the work and results are important,” she said, adding Serbia “will not support threats, insults, gallows, saw, division on bots, toothless, those with sandwiches and so-called civil Serbia. This is Serbia,” Brnabic said about the crowd. “Strong and united.”

She referred to the opposition description of the ruling party supporters who they call the bots and who come to the rallies for a sandwich, and to March 16 storming of the state RTS TV main building when organisers of the anti-government protests #1 in 5 million demanded a few minutes during the main evening news.

Speaking in Serbian, Szijjártó said Serbia was “stronger and stronger and that the country's leaders did not disregard the national interests. You deserve to be a European Union member state and it's unacceptable that they (the EU) lecture you and artificially slow down your membership.”

Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said he was proud what his Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) did for Serbia in seven years in coalition with the SNS.

He told Vucic to stop protecting the opposition and call fresh elections.
General elections in Serbia are due in 2020, but the speculations are Vucic might call them earlier.

Addressing the crowd, Dodik said his Republika Srpska (RS), a Serb-dominated entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, closely followed Serbia’s politics and “it says it loud and clear.”

“You can be against the authorities but not against the state, especially against Serbia. The internal force is necessary for Serbia to be powerful,” he said.

Dodik added that Bosnia and Herzegovina did not recognise Kosovo’s independence because RS did not allow it, as it is against Bosnia’s NATO membership.