Thousands gather at final student-led rally ahead of Serbia election
The student movement aims to end Vucic's 14 years of rule at Sunday's vote, as he holds a rival rally across town.
Tens of thousands of supporters of Serbia’s student-led opposition movement have gathered in central Belgrade for their final rally ahead of a parliamentary election in which they hope to oust veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic’s party.
The crowds filled the capital on Thursday, as Vucic held a rival rally at a sports hall across town.
Waving “students are winning” flags and blowing whistles, the marchers converged on Slavija Square, the site of some of the movement’s biggest protests.
“We are putting an end to 14 years of humiliation, chaos and betrayal, and to decades of putting personal and party interests above yours,” university professor Jugoslav Gasic, one of the candidates on the Student List, told the crowd in Belgrade, who chanted “Victory, victory!”