2023–2024 Serbian election protests

2023–2024 Serbian election protests
2023–2024 Serbian election protests
Part of 2023 Serbian parliamentary election and 2023 Belgrade City Assembly election
	Demonstrators on 24 December 2023
Date	18 December 2023 – present (3 months, 3 weeks and 1 day)
Location	Belgrade, Serbia
Caused by	Suspected electoral fraud in the 2023 parliamentary and Belgrade City Assembly elections
Goals	Annulment of the results of the 2023 elections
Methods	Demonstrations; hunger strike; riots; civil roadblocks; civil disorder; civil disobedience;
Resulted in	New elections called by the ruling party
Parties
Anti-government protesters Citizens; Opposition organisations Serbia Against Violence; Students Against Violence/Struggle;	Government of Serbia Police; Government parties Serbian Progressive Party; Socialist Party of Serbia;
Lead figures
	Dragan Đilas; Marinika Tepić; Miroslav Aleksić; Vladimir Obradović; Srđan Milivojević; Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta; Radomir Lazović; Aleksandar Vučić; Ana Brnabić; Aleksandar Šapić; Bratislav Gašić;
Casualties
Injuries	7 police officers severely injured
Arrested	38 protesters arrested

In December 2023, a series of mass protests began in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, after the parliamentary and Belgrade City Assembly elections on 17 December. The protests have been organised by the Serbia Against Violence (SPN) coalition, which called for the annulment of the election results.

According to monitoring and non-governmental organisations, the election day was marked with electoral fraud. This prompted SPN to organise protests, which began on 18 December. Since then, seven representatives of SPN began a hunger strike, demanding the annulment of the election results. Marinika Tepić has been on a hunger strike since the beginning of the protests. An unsuccessful attempt to enter the building of the City Assembly of Belgrade violently occurred on 24 December. The riot resulted in the arrest of 38 demonstrators.

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