Vučić addresses protesting students: Your ultimatum has not been accepted

2025-06-27 21:41:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Vu?i? addresses protesting students: Your ultimatum has not been accepted

Serbian President Aleksandar Vu?i? declared on Friday, a day before the protest in Belgrade called by protesting students, that "Serbia has not accepted the ultimatum."

"The Serbian state has faced ultimatums from major foreign powers many times. This time too, foreign powers have sent us ultimatums through their local collaborators. The response of the Serbian state has always been the same," the Serbian leader told Pink television.

Ahead of the Vidovdan protest on June 28, students blocking faculties in Belgrade have issued an ultimatum to authorities in Serbia.

They have demanded the fulfillment of two demands: the first is the announcement of extraordinary parliamentary elections.

The second demand is to stop the rally in central Belgrade, where opponents of student blockades have been camped out for the past three months. This group of protesters in central Belgrade calls themselves “students who want to learn.”

The protesting students have said that if these demands are not met by June 28 at 9:00 PM, they expect "citizens to be ready to undertake every existing measure of civil disobedience."

"The ultimatum has not been accepted, so you should not wait until tomorrow at 9:00 PM," Vu?i? said.

Since the announcement of the protest on Saturday, government representatives in Serbia have stated that students and participants in this protest are planning to riot in the streets.

Meanwhile, the protesting students have stated that with their actions so far they have shown that they are against any form of violence.

For more than seven months, students have been organizing protests across Serbia, primarily demanding that political and criminal responsibility be determined for the deaths of 16 people from the collapse of a concrete shelter at the Novi Sad Railway Station.

The station had been reconstructed and officially inaugurated a few months before the collapse.

The protests have become a symbol of broader dissatisfaction with the rule of law in Serbia, raising the question of whether the accident in Novi Sad was a consequence of irresponsibility and corruption in the system./ REL