AP: Opposition supporters return to streets demanding annulment of elections

The protesters want the December 17 vote to be annulled and held again in free and fair conditions. Similar demonstrations were held for days after the elections, reported AP.

The news agency said opposition politician Marinika Tepic told the “few thousand protesters” that “the entire planet knows that the thief has been caught stealing.”

The ruling Serbian Progressive Party was declared the winner, but the main opposition alliance, Serbia Against Violence, claims the election was stolen, particularly in the vote for Belgrade city authorities, noted AP, adding that Serbian election authorities and the courts have rejected the complaints lodged by the opposition group over the election.

International observers have said that the election was held in unjust conditions, noting serious irregularities that included ballot box stuffing and vote-buying, AP reported.

Some local election monitors alleged that voters from across Serbia and neighboring countries were bused in to cast ballots in Belgrade. Local election monitors and opposition supporters alleged that populist supporters were registered at bogus addresses there, said AP, adding that Vucic and his party have called the reports “fabricated.”