Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said there were calls in Serbia for the overthrow of the constitutional order and an attempted colour revolution, BGNES reported.
He also suspected plans to assassinate him, but said he "will not cry for his own fate." The Serbian head of state called on protesting students "to return to the faculties and not to be influenced by political parties."
Over the past two months, Serbia has seen protests in their thousands against corruption in the state administration and the refusal of politicians to take responsibility for the tragedy at the Novi Sad train station in which 15 people died.
"Soon there will be a referendum (on impeachment) or elections... there is a change of power with a pen... There are some serious and comical things here - people like Milos Jovanovic (an opposition politician) are calling for the assassination of the president," Vucic said. He said Jovanovic had asked other people to take up arms and violently overthrow the constitutional order. The Serbian president claimed that many were trying to "completely legalise" the issue of his assassination as if it was "normal and expected".
Vucic also said that he "will never accept transitional governments" and that he wants to hand over power when the entire people of Serbia are asked to do so in a referendum. He also pointed out that he has "no houses or accounts abroad" and that while he is working "hard and diligently", the opposition and many others are "lost" in the streets, without policies or an idea of how to develop the country.
Serbia's president claims that billions of euros have been invested against him by "criminals like Dragan Sholak". He also accused of subversion "Western services, but also Croatian and Albanian", whose aim was to destroy Serbia and incite inter-Serbian conflicts.
"We have not picked up a baton against anyone and we will apply state coercive measures only if we have to and if we are forced to do so," he added of the many thousands of protests, claiming that "all the demands of the students have been met".
Vucic noted that it was the government's job to keep the peace.
"Our job is to keep them (protesters) calm so they don't do something stupid or irresponsible and we have succeeded in that, except for some who drugged or I don't know what else," he said.
"We will wait until the last moment when we will be forced to react when they start blocking highways and everything else," Vucic continued. The president announced that "foreign agents" were organising students to set up tents and blockade Belgrade's Autocommando neighbourhood.
"It's all done by foreign instructors, they come from several Western countries, we know all this. There are also those from eastern countries among those who did the dirty work for the Western agent network," Vucic said.
He criticised Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) for its coverage of the student protests and said he could not believe that "someone broadcast a minute of silence". Vucic also condemned the reports of TV N1 about the rallies of many thousands. "They have to publish nonsense to please someone," he said.
Vucic rejected accusations by the opposition and a number of public figures that his extreme rhetoric had inspired the crash of a student during a blockade in Belgrade.
Explaining why he was pushing for a referendum on his own impeachment, Vucic said it was the only fair solution.
"I want the whole people of Serbia to be asked, not just a part of Belgrade, Novi Sad and the urban elite, but all citizens across Serbia," he said.
Aleksandar Vučić stressed that he will not back down even if "a gun goes to his temple": "I will endure to the end and I will win, because they cannot subdue me and make me afraid of their lies."
The referendum proposed by Vucic is reminiscent of the "referendums" of the South/Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, which he organised in an attempt to maintain his unchecked power disguised behind rigged elections. Vucic himself was Minister of Information under Milosevic. | BGNES
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