On Christmas morning, as the kids opened gifts (or whatever they do in Serbia on Christmas morning), thousands of people took to the streets of Belgrade to call for the annulment of the parliamentary elections held last week in which President Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) won 47% of the vote, NBC News reports.
While Vučić claims the elections were fair, international observers said he improperly influenced the election, which was also marred by extreme media bias in a country where the government owns three major television networks. Vote buying was also reported. Protesters assembled around Belgrade’s town hall, with some breaking windows and entering the building, before police dispersed the crowd with pepper spray.