Darko Glisic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)
Serbian Public Investments Minister and ruling Serbian Progressive Party official Darko Glisic said on Dec. 29 that the country’s protesting university students have grossly inflated the number of signatures gathered from the public during their Dec. 28 ‘Call for Victory’ (Raspisi pobedu) initiative, whose goal was to estimate how much support the student movement has both in general and with regards to their longstanding demand for snap elections.
“[The students] are the ones who wanted to forge, to seal something and to misrepresent results in such a way as to completely alter them. [The students] are prone to such electoral fraud. They’re constantly accusing others while actually speaking of themselves,” Glisic told Pink TV.
The minister said he had expected the declaration on which signatures were gathered to mention issues such as pension and salary increases or whether Kosovo should be recognized.
“Yesterday, [the students] demonstrated their idea of a declaration: no ID card [number], no unique citizen’s number, no nothing. You come and sign a piece of paper, then we add ten more prepared in advance,” Glisic stated.
The protesting university students set up over 400 booths in more than 100 cities and towns across Serbia, attracting a large number of citizens.
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