With a protest walk and tour of key state institutions, students of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade marked the anniversary of the beginning of the student blockades.
Before them, during the day, the anniversary of the beginning of the blockades was also marked by students from the Belgrade Faculty of Agriculture and the Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences.
In a protest walk through the central streets of Belgrade, under the slogan "lawyers want justice", students of the Faculty of Law, among other things, visited the headquarters of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, the Government and the Presidency of Serbia.
They reiterated the key demand for early parliamentary elections.
On behalf of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office, as stated in the student speech, they supported judges and prosecutors who "do their job conscientiously and in accordance with the law," assessing that the judiciary is "under greater attack than ever" as representatives of the government insult and target them.
On behalf of the Serbian Government, they had a message for Prime Minister Đuro Macut - they asked him to send the president a proposal to dissolve the Parliament and call early elections, assessing that the government "no longer has legitimacy."
They repeated the request for elections in a speech in front of the Serbian Presidency.
This was, as they stated, the first official student speech in front of the Presidency since the beginning of the protest.
"Institutions must return to the constitutional framework, and with them the President of the Republic," the speech emphasized.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has been accused of violating the Constitution.
They recalled the insults that Vučić had directed at the demonstrators since the beginning of the student protests, as well as the threats that came from government representatives and the arrests of protest participants on the streets.
Student blockades of dozens of faculties, which began in late November 2024, have grown into a wave of mass anti-government protests in Serbia, joined by hundreds of thousands of citizens.
The reason for the student blockades and protests was the death of 16 people in the collapse of the canopy of the reconstructed Railway Station in Novi Sad - the authorities are being asked to determine responsibility for the accident, with the assessment that it was caused by negligence and corruption.
The streets are also demanding that the court proceedings against protesters who have been arrested over the past year be suspended, as well as that the attackers of protest participants in incidents that have occurred throughout Serbia be prosecuted.
None of the demands, according to the students, have been met.
The government, on the other hand, claims the opposite and at the same time refuses to call parliamentary elections, which is the students' latest request, sent in May 2025.
With the start of the new school year, classes at faculties have been normalized during the fall, except at the State University in Novi Pazar, whose students are demanding compulsory administration.
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