Serbs take to streets, accuse populist Vučić authorities of election fraud

Serbian opposition supporters have been again within the streets on Tuesday, accusing President Aleksandar Vučić’s populist authorities of orchestrating fraud in final month’s parliamentary and native elections.

The protesters need the Dec. 17 vote to be annulled and held once more in free and honest situations. Comparable demonstrations have been held for days after the elections.

“The entire planet knows that the thief has been caught stealing,” opposition politician Marinika Tepic instructed the few thousand protesters. “There are no free and fair elections here. If we give up this fight, there will be no more elections.”

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The ruling Serbian Progressive Party was declared the winner, however the primary opposition alliance, Serbia Towards Violence, claims the election was stolen, notably within the vote for Belgrade metropolis authorities.

Each Serbian election authorities and the courts have rejected the complaints lodged by the opposition group over the election.

Demonstrators protest President Aleksandar Vučić’s authorities in downtown Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (AP Picture/Darko Vojinovic)

Worldwide observers have mentioned that the election was held in unjust situations, noting critical irregularities that included poll field stuffing and vote-buying.

Some native election screens alleged that voters from throughout Serbia and neighboring nations have been bused in to solid ballots in Belgrade. Native election screens and opposition supporters alleged that populist supporters have been registered at bogus addresses there.

Vučić and his celebration have known as the reviews “fabricated.”

In December, tensions soared when police fired pepper spray at protesters who tried to enter Belgrade Metropolis Corridor and arrested dozens.

The gang on Tuesday additionally lit candles at a Belgrade church to mark the killing on Jan. 16, 2018 of a reasonable ethnic Serb politician from Kosovo, Oliver Ivanović.

Kosovo is a former Serbian province whose 2008 declaration of independence is unrecognized by Belgrade. The dispute stays a supply of stress within the unstable Balkans.

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Serbia is looking for European Union membership however has refused to impose sanctions on conventional ally Russia, partly as a result of Moscow helps Belgrade’s declare to Kosovo.