{"id":62121,"date":"2025-06-29T05:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=62121"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:18:06","slug":"around-140000-rally-in-belgrade-ratcheting-up-calls-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=62121","title":{"rendered":"Around 140,000 rally in Belgrade ratcheting up calls for elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 140,000 protesters rallied in Belgrade, the largest turnout in recent months, as student-led demonstrations mount pressure on the populist government to call early elections.<\/p>\n<p>The rally was one of the largest in over half a year student-led actions, which began in November after the roof of a train station collapsed in the northern city of Novi Sad, killing 16 people &#8212; a tragedy widely blamed on entrenched corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, a sea of protesters filled Belgrade&#8217;s largest square and poured into several surrounding streets.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Protest Monitor, Archive of Public Gatherings, estimated the crowd size at around 140,000, significantly higher than the police estimate of 36,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want elections!&#8221; the crowd chanted, waving Serbian flags and holding banners bearing the names of cities and towns from around the country.<\/p>\n<p>For more than half a year, students have blockaded universities and organised large demonstrations around the country, demanding a transparent investigation into the deaths.<\/p>\n<p>But in contrast with previous gatherings, which have remained peaceful, clashes erupted between demonstrators and riot police.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/287283\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 140,000 protesters rallied in Belgrade, the largest turnout in recent months, as student-led demonstrations mount pressure on the populist government to call early elections. The rally was one of the largest in over half a year student-led actions, which began in November after the roof of a train station collapsed in the northern city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62123,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62121\/revisions\/62123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}