Students protests in over 30 cities in Serbia demanding snap elections

The protests in all cities will begin at 6:00 PM and last until 9:16 PM, during which the same speeches will be read aloud in every location. In Belgrade, two of the busiest bridges — Branko’s Bridge and Gazela — will be blocked during this time.

Stefan Radovanovic, a student from the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade, told N1 that students had already organized a large protest on Friday, also demanding snap parliamentary elections.

“It was clear that the people had risen up and showed that this regime no longer has any legitimacy whatsoever. In line with that, students presented a social contract at that protest, they presented the program of our list, and based on that, the position of the students in blockade — and of the general public — is clear. We’ve said that a government that has for years been destroying our society must be replaced, and that’s why we’re demanding elections,” he stated.

This also marks exactly six months since the collapse of the canopy at the train station in Novi Sad, which killed 16 people. That tragedy was the trigger for months of anti-corruption protests led by students from Serbia’s largest universities: those in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Niš, and Novi Pazar.

In addition to Belgrade, protests today have been announced in: Novi Sad, Niš, Kragujevac, Novi Pazar, Aleksinac, Bela Palanka, Bor, Čačak, Jagodina, Kikinda, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kraljevo, Kruševac, Leskovac, Loznica, Pančevo, Pirot, Priboj, Prokuplje, Ruma, Senta, Sombor, Sremska Mitrovica, Subotica, Surdulica, Šabac, Užice, Valjevo, Vlasotince, Vršac, and Zrenjanin.