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Thousands of Serbs gathered on Monday in Belgrade to demand the release of the protesters arrested the day before in a protest called to denounce fraud in the recent legislative and local elections in the Balkan country.
This is the eighth consecutive night of protests, which, unlike those on Sunday, took place peacefully although they began with blockades of streets in the capital.
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic denounced Sunday’s riots as planned, and Russia accused Western powers of interference, suggesting they could be behind the outbreak of violence. .
The December 17 elections gave victory to Vucic’s party (SNS, nationalist right) with 46.7% of the votes, according to the Electoral Commission.
But the opposition, which went to the polls united with the slogan “Serbia against violence” and obtained 23.5% of the votes, denounces that a series of frauds were committed.
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A preliminary report from a mission of international observers confirmed these suspicions and listed cases of “vote buying” and “ballot box stuffing” in several polling stations.
