After the first rally organized by the "Serbia Against Violence" coalition on December 18, held a day after the Serbian elections, the students announced that the protests will be held every day, Danas reports.
They asked the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government for a revision of the electoral roll and gave a deadline of December 25, Monday, for a response, otherwise they will start blocking roads in the capital.
Miroslav Aleksic from the coalition "Serbia against violence" announced a mass protest for 6 pm on Sunday. "Tomorrow we are waiting for the results which are expected, the deadline to cash in the elections is coming up, it is a time when we all have to come together. I invite all citizens, we will make a scene, we will start defending the will of the people, the state, the freedom that was taken from us by those who privatized the state. Maybe RTS (Serbian state television) will understand that it has to inform citizens who pay regularly every month," Aleksic said. Serbia Against Violence MPs Marinika Tepic and Miroslav Aleksic, as well as two other MPs, Jelena Milosevic from the city of Nis and Daniela Grujic from Novi Sad, are on hunger strike in the building that houses the Republican Electoral Commission. Lawyer Zdenko Tomanovic, who visited the hunger strikers, said that "three women and Miroslav Aleksic are fighting for the implementation of the constitution and laws of our country." The leader of the opposition Democratic Party, Zoran Lutovac, said she had requested a repeat election. “This demand can only be met if we motivate people to come out and support it. What is needed is to create a social front. It is not a matter of violation of individual rights, but of systematic theft," said Lutovac. "The demands are on behalf of the citizens, but they concern all of us, they must be the first step towards changing society in order to have free and fair elections," he said, adding that "we would never have found ourselves in this situation if the institutions they got the job done.” The co-president of the "Together" party and university professor Mrs. Biljana Stojkovic said that she is proud of her students because they have shown that besides exams and studying, social action is also very important. "I'm proud of my students, this is an excellent lesson they taught their professors," Stojkovic told the crowd.
The protest "Serbia again against violence" in the city of Nis under the motto "Nis is never silent about election fraud" started shortly after 6 pm on Friday. It was the first protest in that city since the December 17 election. Deputy Serjan Milivojevic shared with the protesters his message to those who are afraid to join them "because they have work". "How we got here - coming to terms with being poor, not financially, but in the sense that we don't have freedom and dignity," Milivojevic said. A protest was also held in the town of League on Friday, for the second time since the election. /BGNES
