Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Under-fire Serbian PM Vucevic resigns

from RT

Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic officially announced his resignation on Tuesday following weeks of anti-government protests over alleged corruption and negligence.

His decision comes after sustained public outcry that began with anger over the collapse of a concrete canopy at the Novi Sad railway station three months ago, resulting in 15 deaths.

In his resignation statement on Tuesday, Vucevic claimed that the ongoing protests across the country are being organized from abroad with the ultimate goal of staging a coup d’etat. “I can say with certainty that this is an absolutely deliberate action, organized from abroad, I have no doubt about that,” Vucevic said, adding that a blow had been dealt to the most “sensitive area of society – children’s education,” with the aim of “threatening Serbia as a state.”

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has also accused the country’s opposition of collaborating with foreign intelligence agencies to destabilize the country, describing the protests as an attempt at a “color revolution.” He has specifically claimed that a coalition of Western, Croatian, and Albanian interests was working to “to destroy Serbia from within.”...

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