Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic stated in Jagodina, on Jan. 24, that a new movement would be established with an eye to the future of the state and all citizens and that everyone was welcome.
At a rally in Jagodina celebrating the birth of the new movement, Vucic said that everyone "is welcome to join this great movement for the future and against returning to the past." The president also said that "Serbia knows that it is being attacked both from the outside and from within, but the people know when it is time to support those who have fought for Serbia."
At the first event to mark the previously announced formation of the Movement for the People and the State, Vucic also acknowledged popular discontent over actual problems, including local power wielders and ministers "whom people cannot stand."
The president pledged that no one would take power in the streets again. He called for talks with student protesters who have occupied their faculties, urging them to explain which demands, exactly, had the authorities failed to meet. The Socialist Party of Serbia’s leader, Ivica Dacic, supported the new movement, saying in his speech in Jagodina that the Socialists, along with their coalition partners, the United Serbia and the Greens of Serbia, were ready to support the new movement.
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