Pajtic: Young people organized protests - not opposition, or Soros

Former DS leader and member of the National Assembly Bojan Pajtic has told a Belgrade daily that he does not intend to leave this opposition party.

"I resigned as a deputy (member of the Assembly) as a gesture of support for the students. I felt that, as a university professor, I had an obligation to do that. By taking to the streets my students have shown integrity, intelligence and an unfaltering will not to recognize the regime's legitimacy," Pajtic told Danas.

According to him, protests of citizens dissatisfied with Aleksandar Vucic's election victory represent "a cry of the Serb youth" which, according to him, "does not want to drown in the mud of lies, election theft, corruption and hopelessness."

Pajtic said that Prime Minister and President-elect Vucic, who heads the ruling SNS party, "often manipulates most opposition politicians."

"He has...