In Čačak, Serbia, a Citizens’ Assembly held on Saturday evening declared President Aleksandar Vučić and National Assembly Speaker Ana Brnabić unwelcome in the city. Several hundred residents attended the meeting and unanimously supported the decision.
The assembly leader encouraged attendees to vote against Vučić, referring to him as a “hatemonger” and “divider of the nation.” The vote was met with chants of “Ua, ua” and “Pumpaj” from the crowd.
Ana Brnabić was also declared unwelcome due to her support for lithium mining, a controversial issue among local residents and environmental activists.
Additionally, the assembly unanimously decided to revoke the honorary citizenship of former Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić, a title he had received from Čačak in 2013.
The Citizens’ Assembly further resolved to organize similar meetings in local communities and expressed full support for students and their demands, emphasizing the need for perseverance “no matter how exhausting and lengthy the process may be.”
In his concluding remarks, the assembly leader called on Čačak residents to cultivate empathy, solidarity, and tolerance—values he said students had awakened. “There is no going back,” he stated, warning against a return to “a Serbia of wastelands, destroyed rivers, barren mountains, violence, and corruption—back to ‘Ćacilend.'”
Earlier in the evening, students and high school graduates held a protest in Čačak but did not join the Citizens’ Assembly.
