Serbia Opposition Claim Vucic's Fall 'Has Started'

A journalist from the television station, Studio B, Barbara Zivotic, has caused much anger with a report from the event that many said was not objective.

"Very small number of gathered people. Smaller than expected. Of course there was an incident in which people shoved and hit with umbrellas … of course, this was expected at such a protest," Zivotic said in her report on Saturday evening, although Defence Minister, Aleksandar Vulin, in his statement one day later, confirmed there were no incidents.

After many angry reactions on social media, Studio B condemned pressures on its journalists, while the President called Zivotic "a nice child who should not be worried, she should work as she thinks she should", Serbian news agencies reported.

The Association of Journalists of Serbia, UNS, called on editors and journalists in a press release to respect professional ethics code and to draw a difference between facts and speculation. It also called on the public to stop targeting journalists on social networks. 

"More than ten thousand people have shown that Serbia is not scared," former Belgrade mayor and one of the founders of the Alliance for Serbia, Dragan Djilas, said on Twitter.

One day ahead of the protest, Djilas told the daily Blic that he will launch the procedure to form his own party in December and expects to officially register it in February.

Another opposition politician, the head of the Left Party of Serbia, Borko Stefanovic, told Talas news website on Monday that "certain requests will be formulated and citizens will be informed in detail about this, by the Alliance for Serbia".

The attack on Stefanovic in the central town of Krusevac on November 23 was one of the main reasons for the...