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Mass protests in Serbia, Vucic: All the demands of the students have been met, the forgiveness of the...

2025-01-27 22:17:10Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Mass protests in Serbia, Vucic: All the demands of the students have been met,

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has claimed that all student demands have been met, ranging from publishing all documentation about the reconstruction of the Railway Station in Novi Sad to the pardon of activists arrested during the protests.

In a public address on January 27, he said more documents would be published, and the state would provide "everything it has."

"There is no longer any documentation relating to the reconstruction of the railway station," Vucic said.

He also said he was ready to sign the pardon of all students and professors against whom criminal proceedings were initiated after their arrests at the protests.

Protests have started after a large concrete piece collapsed at Novi Sad railway station on November 1, killing 15 people and seriously injuring two others.

Speaking about student demands for prosecution of those responsible for attacks on students, professors and other citizens at marches and protests, Vucic said cases against 37 individuals had been initiated.

Regarding the involvement of government officials in the attacks, Vucic said that "there is only one case in the new Belgrade" and believes it "has already been resolved.""

When speaking about the demand for a 20 percent increase in higher education budget, the Serbian president said that students have changed the demand to include increased professors' salaries and a reduction of 50 percent of student fees, and that the state has already decided to meet this requirement.

According to him, this will cost the state about 73 billion dinars.

"The question is whether all that we've accomplished will be enough for someone to say that 'all the demands have been met.' I'm not sure, but I hope it is. But I am sure that this will start a dialogue in society, and that one of the rectors and deans and everyone else starts talking, dialogue starts and thus starts healing our society," Vucic said.

Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic said at a joint conference with Vucic that he invited all rectors, deans, professors and students of universities and faculties in Serbia to go to the government and discuss student demands, which he said were met in full.

Vucic said on Monday he would send a request to the Serbian government "for the most urgent and massive restructuring possible".

"Because in these difficult political times, it has become clear who is willing to work and fight, who is not, and bearing that in mind, I expect more than 50 percent of the ministers to be sacked and replaced in a very, very urgent restructuring," Vucic said on January 27.

He said that in the last three months, after the accident at the Novi Sad railway station in which 15 people died, an atmosphere has been created that is not to the benefit of anyone.

"In these three months, we have heard many accusations against state troops, calls for overthrow of the state, we have heard very irresponsible statements, not only from the opposition but also from us in power," he said.

The Serbian president said he had spoken with government representatives and that they "stated that they want to listen to the other side" [students protesting] and who want dialogue and conversation.

Vucic, Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic and Parliament Speaker AnaBrnabic addressed the public on the day students staged a 24-hour blockade at one of Belgrade's main traffic points.

The 24-hour blockade was staged three days after thousands of people joined the call for a general strike.

The students, who have been blocking the work of more than 60 faculties for more than two months, are seeking criminal and political responsibility for the 15 deaths caused by the incident in Novi Sad.

Government representatives have said in advance that all student requests have been met.

The academics, on the other hand, said their demands were partially met and that the suspension of work will continue until the next announcement.

More than 5,000 university professors in Serbia have supported the student blockade.

In a petition, they condemn government attempts to intimidate students – by making their personal data public, or even by sending government agency agents to their homes or their parents.

The Office of the Supreme Prosecutor in Novi Sad has indicted 13 people over the November incident.

Among them are former Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Goran Vesic, his assistant Anita Dimoski, and former director of the public infrastructure company, Jelena Tanaskovic.

Ten of the indictees are in custody, Vesic is on the run, while Tanaskovic and Dimoski are under house arrest.


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