{"id":278533,"date":"2026-06-29T11:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=278533"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:08:43","slug":"serbia-protests-continue-despite-pms-resignation-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/278533\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia protests continue despite PM&#8217;s resignation plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Thousands of protesters descended &zwnj;on the Serbian city of Kraljevo on Sunday, keeping up pressure on President Aleksandar Vucic a day after he said he would step down within weeks to pave the way for early presidential and parliamentary elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/serbians-keep-up-protest-after-president-vucic-says-he-will-step-down-2026-06-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Although many protesters expressed satisfaction over Vucic&rsquo;s resignation, they fear &#8203;he may not fully relinquish power. Analysts say he may try to run for prime minister &#8203;and install an ally in the presidency so he can continue to wield power.<\/p>\n<p>Vucic has faced months of student-led protests sparked by the collapse of a concrete awning at a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad in late 2024 that killed 16 people.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of protesters descended &zwnj;on the Serbian city of Kraljevo on Sunday, keeping up pressure on President Aleksandar Vucic a day after he said he would step down within weeks to pave the way for early presidential and parliamentary elections, Reuters writes. Although many protesters expressed satisfaction over Vucic&rsquo;s resignation, they fear &#8203;he may not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":278379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278536,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278533\/revisions\/278536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}