Aleksandar Balan from Belgrade told BIRN he came out to protest the „obvious election theft that made voting useless“.
„There are almost seven milion people registered to vote and Serbia's population is something over six million. Everybody knows who gets the votes of the non existing people,“ said Balan, who is unemployed.
Several thousand protesters in Belgrade have started walking towards the offices of the pro-government tabloid Informer on Terazije square. They are chanting „Vucic, you are a thief“ and banging drums as they go.
They will once again make a round of the city streets until they reach the seat of Serbia's Government, after which they will return to the National Assembly building.
Around 2.000 protesters in the centre of Nis marched against Aleksandar Vucic's victory in the April 2 presidential election. The protesting students expressed their support for the demands previously set by some of the students' organizations from Novi Sad and Belgrade – the dismissla of Parliament speaker Maja Gojkovic, management of the national broadcaster, the State Electoral Commission and the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media.
The scheduled „Protest Against Dictatorship“ in the southern town of Novi Pazar did not take place because of the rain, Beta news agency reports. Only about a dozen young people showed up at city square, but they did not hang their banners or walk the city streets.
They have not given up, however, and announced they would hold a protest tomorrow. At a previous rally against Aleksandar Vucic around 50 people in this small town showed up.
College student Sasa Loncar said he and his friends came to the protest in Belgrade because they want things to change in Serbia.
„I came here because of Aleksandar Vucic's tyranny, especially because other presidential candidates were blocked in the media,“ said Loncar.
He said he and his friends voted in the presidential election because they are young and have to shape the country’s future.
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In the months-long protests in Serbia, those marching every weekend are not all demonstrating for purely political reasons – but also to raise their voices over other burning everyday problems.