Serbian Parliament Accepts Vucevic's Resign

Vucevic, leader of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and an ally of President Aleksandar Vucic, resigned on January 28th amid protests caused by the collapse of a tent at a train station in the northern city of Novi Sad last November, which killed 15 people.

According to Politico, although Vucevic announced his intention to resign in late January, Belgrade's parliament confirmed the resignation several weeks later, shortly after decades-old protest demonstrations in the country, tch reports, broadcast Periscope.

Vucic said on Sunday that unless a new government is formed within 30 days of his resignation, he will call early elections, which will likely be held on June 8th, only a year and a half after the last general elections in Serbia.

Vucic has taken some measures to ease the public protest pressure that followed the collapse of the newly renovated train station in Novi Sad last November, which caused 15 deaths.

Protesters believe the collapse was caused by corruption, badly drafted contracts and lack of expert supervision during the station's modernisation, as part of China's “Initiative, one generation, and a” road.

At least 100,000 people from around the country flooded the Serbian capital on Saturday to demand that the government take corruption more seriously. Vucic claims the movement aims directly against him, though it is unlikely to bring the president down.

But, although some local and national officials, including now the entire Serbian government, resigned after public protests, protesters disobeyed Vuciki's steps, as their demand for full documentation of Serbia's railway renovation programme was officially met only with heavily edited files.