Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said a referendum for his impeachment should be called following calls for resignations over the deaths of 14 people when a roof collapsed at the Novi Sad railway station.

Speaking live on the pro-regime Happy TV, Vucic said that he is offering the opposition a solution following calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Milos Vucevic over the collapse of a roof at Novi Sad Railway Station last Friday.

He said the ruling coalition will provide the votes needed for a majority in parliament to call for a referendum on his impeachment. “If 50 percent of the electorate says they agree to impeach me I won’t be president for another day. I pledge in public that I will no longer be president and that we will have new presidential elections,” he said.

Commenting Minister Goran Vesic’s resignation, the president said he didn’t try to convince him either way. According to him, most of the government thinks that is a necessary gesture, adding that he respects what Prime Minister Milos Vucevic will do about Vesic’s resignation.

Vucic said Vesic won’t be the only one to resign. “I am sure that is the start of the resignations,” he said adding that the people calling for resignations should leave Vucevic alone.

Asked to comment opposition demands for the allegedly secret contracts with Chinese companies to be made public, Vucic showed what he claimed was a document from 2009 signed by then Deputy Prime Minister Mladjan Dinkic which includes a business secrets clause. Dinkic was part of the coalition that came ot power after the fall of the Milosevic regime whose arrest Vucic called for in public.