Students Call Rally at Constitutional Court Over Zajecar
Student protesters have called a gathering on Thursday, June 11, outside Serbia's Constitutional Court in Belgrade under the slogan Zajecar Is Ours, over an annulled Zajecar court ruling.
- Student protesters have called a rally for Thursday, June 11, at 6 p.m. outside the Constitutional Court in Belgrade.
- The gathering carries the slogan Zajecar Is Ours and was announced by the students on their own social media accounts.
- They cite the annulment of a Zajecar High Court ruling on the verification of councillors' mandates as the trigger.
- The students say a full year has passed since the Zajecar local elections, yet the irregularities they allege have not, by their account, been corrected.
Student protesters have called on citizens to gather on Thursday, June 11, at 6 p.m. outside the Constitutional Court in Belgrade. The event has been announced under the slogan Zajecar Is Ours, and, according to the posts, the students themselves published the call on their social media accounts. The announcement was reported by Beta, N1 and Danas.
The organisers point to the situation around the local elections in Zajecar as the reason for the rally. The call notes that a year has passed since that vote, yet the election irregularities the students allege have, in their words, still not been corrected. At the centre of the appeal is the annulment of a Zajecar High Court ruling, according to which the verification of councillors’ mandates was not carried out in line with the law.
What do the students give as the reason for the gathering?
In their appeal, the organisers direct their message at the Constitutional Court as the institution that, in their reading, should rule on the disputed process in Zajecar. “We are organising a rally outside the Constitutional Court to point out that the established election irregularities have not been corrected, but rather institutionally amnestied,” the students’ call, carried by the newspaper Danas, states.
The students thus frame the disputed Zajecar process as a question that reaches beyond a single town and a single local vote, placing it within a wider debate about electoral conditions. It remains to be seen how the relevant institutions will respond to the announcement and whether there will be any official replies before the date of the gathering.
At the time of publication, there had been no official reaction from government representatives or the Constitutional Court to this specific call. The matter of councillors’ mandates in Zajecar has been the subject of legal and political debate for months, with the court proceedings over verification standing as one of the contested points since last year’s local cycle.
How does this rally differ from other announced events?
It is worth separating the announced gathering from other student actions being discussed these days. The rally outside the Constitutional Court on June 11 is a standalone event and should not be confused with the previously announced student gathering for Vidovdan, on June 28. These are two different calls, with different dates and different reasons.
The announcement comes during a period in which student groups have for months held a series of gatherings across Serbia. Each of those events has its own trigger, so to follow the situation it helps to look at each call separately, with its date and the specific issue the organisers raise.
The available posts confirm a 6 p.m. start time for Thursday, June 11, and the location outside the Constitutional Court, while a more detailed programme for the gathering was not known at the time of publication. The institutions’ stance, and whether official statements follow, will be decisive for any next steps.
Will the institutions respond to the announced rally before June 11, and how, in your view, should disputes over mandates in local assemblies be resolved?
