The anti-government protest was held in Serbia's southern town of Kursumlija late on Thursday demanding the ouster of local officials and said they would block a road if the demand was not met, the Beta news agency reported.

Slavko Ilic, an alderman in the municipality assembly, reminded the crowd about an ultimatum given to President Aleksandar Vucic last week to replace Kursumlija’s local authorities or face the blockade of the Nis – Podujevo road at the Merdare crossing with Kosovo.

“Since he hasn’t answered yet, we are telling him we will block the road at any cost next Tuesday or Wednesday,“ Ilic said.

The anti-government protests spread to over 30 places in Serbia after the first one was held in Belgrade almost two months ago, triggered by the beatings of an opposition leader and two of his aids in the central town of Krusevac.

The demands of the rallies called #1 in 5 million after Vucic said he would not cede to people’s requests even if there were five million of them, include his resignation, freedom of speech and media, fair election rules and the restoration of state’s institutions.

The opposition does not take an active role in the protests, but the organisers demanded its leaders to sign an agreement with people what and how they would lead the country once in power.

The majority of the opposition parties said they would boycott any vote organised under the current conditions.

The leaders of the opposition support the protests, walk with people but do not address them. They promise they will soon make public their ideas about what after the change of the country’s authorities.

Sports commentator Milojko Pantic addressed the crowd in Kursumlija last night, saying Serbia’s people had been living in “either the state of war or emergency” for three decades while being “ferociously robbed by the coalitions of communists and nationalists and criminals and politicians.”

“The followers of Aleksandar Vucic, who doesn’t even know where Kursumlija is, occupied Serbia in 2012. That’s the same Vucic who was a member of the (ultra-nationalist) Serbian Radical Party (SRS), who was moving from one flat to another while you were dying defending your town and neighbouring Kosovo,” Pantic said about the 1998-1999 Kosovo war.

He added that Vucic had turned “all media into a deep tabloid mud which he uses to send nationalistic messages and contaminate common sense with hatred.”