In Serbia, supporters of the student movement clean the streets after their victory in the parliamentary elections
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After its victory in the legislative elections on October 25 in Belgrade, the student movement mobilized its supporters to clean offensive graffiti on facades and in public spaces in the Serbian capital.
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Why It Matters
The student movement won the legislative elections on October 25, ending 14 years of power for Aleksandar Vucic's nationalist party.
Rags, brooms and white paint were the order of the day in Belgrade this weekend of October 31. After the victory of the student movement in the legislative elections on Sunday October 25 after two years of turbulent demonstrations in the capital, the winning party called on its supporters to take to the streets in order to clean them up.
The campaign targets in particular “the offensive graffiti that has been defacing the facades of buildings for some time,” he said in a press release, calling on volunteers to join the initiative of an environmental NGO launched the day after the vote.
Images broadcast in local media and on social networks showed dozens of people gathered in a passage in Belgrade to cover red graffiti with white.
The slogan “FCK BLK” is among the most common in underpasses or on bus shelters. This abbreviation is a pejorative reference to the student movement, whose members were described as “blokaderi” (blockers, in Serbian) by Aleksandar Vucic.
The student movement asked residents to bring gardening tools, trash bags and gloves to participate in collective work.
During Sunday's early legislative elections, a list supported by students defeated Aleksandar Vucic's nationalist party, ending its 14 years in power.
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