Zoran Lutovac, Radomor Lazović, Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, Borko Stefanović, Miroslav Aleksić and Marinika Tepić addressed the media in the hall of the Serbian Parliament and, together with some other colleagues from the "pro-European" parties organizing the "Serbia against violence" protests, demonstrated unity.
On behalf of the citizens, all six presented new demands to the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić: the urgent calling of extraordinary parliamentary and Belgrade elections, which should be held by the end of the year, because since the government will not fulfill the demands of the Serbia against Violence protest, they will fulfill them when they come. to power.
The common message was that they will not be able to achieve this without the support of the citizens, that is, that the key to the solution does not lie in them, but in the citizens who, with their mass on the streets, should sufficiently increase the pressure on the regime if it does not listen to these demands.
In that name, they scheduled a new protest for Friday, September 8. The gathering should be in front of the Government in Nemanja Street, and they will walk to Pink TV.
The novelty announced by the opposition is, therefore, that it will try to block the work of the Assembly until the elections are announced, and that in addition to the previous demands of the protest, election "super demands" have been added. The method by which the government should be forced to fulfill the old and new demands is the same - citizens must demonstrate in the streets throughout Serbia and demand the same from the government.
And how they think they are obstructing the Assembly, the opposition leaders did not specify.
Orlić accepts the challenge
Immediately after the speeches of the opposition leaders, the President of the Assembly, Vladimir Orlić, spoke in the assembly hall. He said that they, the progressives, enthusiastically accept the initiative of the opposition, that they will receive an answer when the elections will be held in the shortest possible time, he mentioned about thirty days.
But, threatened Orlić, he will not allow the work of the Assembly to be hindered. Then he turned and left the hall without explanation, probably to receive new directives.
The session was supposed to start at 10 o'clock.
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