Serbia: Protests continue after Vucic says he will step down
Key takeaways
- Student-led demonstrations continued even after President Vucic announced his plan to resign within weeks.
- "The students are winning," Nemanja Karovic, a Belgrade professor who supports the movement, told the crowd from a stage in the main square in Kraljevo, some 170 kilometres (105 miles) south of the capital Belgrade.
- Serbia has seen regular student-led, anti-government protests since the collapse of a railway station canopy in the northern city of Novi Sad in November 2024.
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Student-led demonstrations continued even after President Vucic announced his plan to resign within weeks. For more than 18 months, demonstrators have kept Vucic under pressure.
https://p.dw.com/p/5GDSUSerbia's student-led rallies have been one of the country's largest protest movements in history Image: Uros Arsic/AFPAdvertisement Thousands of protesters on Sunday rallied in central Serbia, a day after President Aleksandar Vucic said he would step down within weeks following more than a year of student-led protests.
"The students are winning," Nemanja Karovic, a Belgrade professor who supports the movement, told the crowd from a stage in the main square in Kraljevo, some 170 kilometres (105 miles) south of the capital Belgrade.