Serbian President’s Power Tested by Protests

Vučič will seek to regain the initiative and build up support at his own rally on Friday ahead of tough Kosovo decisions

25 May 2023

Jan Farfał

Europe Enlargement Fellow

In a carefully orchestrated spin – planned for months in advance – President Vučič had sought to extend his grip on Serbia with a new national movement, aiming to unite centrist and right-wing voters. Everything was going well until mass shootings in May sparked the country’s largest protests in decades.

Tens of thousands of Serbs marched through the streets of Belgrade for the third time in a month last Friday. Some waved flags while others held up handmade placards; almost all wore solemn expressions of grief and frustration.

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The crowd was there to protest against guns, against the continued violence in society – epitomised by two tragic mass shootings which occurred within days of each other earlier in the month. They were also calling for political action, the revoking of broadcasting licenses for two TV networks and the resignation of the interior minister, Bratislav Gasic, as well as the pro-Russian head of intelligence, Aleksandar Vulin.

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Jan Farfał

Europe Enlargement Fellow

Deputy Editor in Chief at Res Publica Nowa. Doctoral Candidate at the University of Oxford and Research Assistant to Timothy Garton Ash, co-founder of the Club Alpbach Poland, Committee Representative for the Security Track at the European Forum Alpbach, and visiting fellow at IWM - Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. Researcher in the project ‘Europe in a Changing World', at the European Studies Center at the University of Oxford.

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