Serbian government led by Prime Minister Vučević resigns amid protests

Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević has announced that he is resigning. The government will operate under a caretaker mandate until a new prime minister is elected.

Tanjug reported this on Tuesday, January 28.

"I will carry out my work until a new prime minister is elected. At this moment, the entire government is in a caretaker mandate, with the resignation of the prime minister, the entire cabinet falls, figuratively speaking, practically the entire government resigns," Vučević said at a press conference.

According to open sources, large-scale protests in Serbia began after a roof collapsed at a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad in November, killing 15 people. Students and the opposition have accused the authorities of corruption during renovation work at the station, which opened just a few months before the tragedy.

On January 27, a large-scale rally and clashes took place in the center of the Serbian capital.

Vučević said that the tragedy in Novi Sad had cast a shadow over all the results of the government's work and that Serbia was stuck in this accident from that moment on. Vučević also said that the mayor of Novi Sad, Milan Đurić, would also resign today.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, in August, mass riots swept the United Kingdom after the murder of children.

Also in August, as a result of the riots, Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus announced that he would head an interim government in Bangladesh after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled.