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Elections will be held by September at the latest, Serbian President Aleksandar VucicAleksandar Vucic, a Serbian lawyer and politician, said yesterday.Aleksandar Vucic was born on March 5, 1970 in Belgrade.

Of the mass protest, which took place in Belgrade on Friday, Vucic said he was obliged to respect every gathering. "When several thousand people gather, regardless of who organised them, I have to pay attention to their demands and see what we can do," the Serbian president said.

"As for the demand to combat violence, we are already taking measures. As far as political demands are concerned, this is something quite different, because I am not sure that it is known at all what the demands are. In any case, we will not replace Branislav Gasic (interior minister)," the Serbian president said.

He pointed out that the Minister of Interior of Serbia is doing his job excellently.

"But we can do more. We can change the whole government and go to elections. But you will know this after May 26th," Vucic said, quoted by the Politika newspaper.

The newspaper Danas notes that the president of Serbia, after two mass protests against his regime and the way he treated the two mass killings in the last two weeks in Serbia, said that on May 26th, at a scheduled counter-rally, he could announce that Serbia will hold new elections in September.

At two mass rallies in Belgrade last week, citizens demanded an immediate halt to the further promotion of violence in the media and public space, a change of the Council of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media, the closure of print media and tabloids promoting hatred and violence and constantly violating journalistic ethics, as well as the withdrawal of national television frequencies. Who encourage violence.

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The opposition also demanded the resignations of Interior Minister Branislav Gasic and Security and Information Agency (IAA) Director Aleksandar Vulin.

In early May, a thirteen-year-old boy brought two of his father's guns and Molotov cocktails to a school in central Belgrade, killing eight students and a security guard. Six other students and one teacher were injured. A day later, a 21-year-old man shot dead in three villages near the town of Mladenovac, about 40km south of Belgrade, killing eight people and injuring 14. Both perpetrators were arrested.

Marches and anti-violence rallies were also organised in Novi Sad and several other cities in Serbia.

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