LIVE BLOG: Progressives are arriving en masse in Belgrade, city centers across Serbia are almost empty (PHOTO) – Politika

14.17 Neither the Ministry of Education nor the school administrations have received an official notification to the schools that classes will be shortened today due to the holding of the SNS rally in Belgrade, it was confirmed to Danas in several trade union headquarters throughout Serbia.

However, the educators we talked to say that in some municipalities and cities, bus transportation has been reduced, so classes have been shortened in regional schools.

13.50 About 20 buses left Zaječar for Belgrade, and the correspondent of Danas points out that they were not full.

13.47 In the morning hours, 22 buses left Vladičina Han for the SNS meeting on the way to Belgrade, Danas learned from SNS officials from this city.

The city is deserted, and the only production that continues normally today is in the Teklas cable factory for the auto industry, workers at their workplaces confirmed to the Danas correspondent.

13.42 Supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party gathered in front of the Rectorate of the University of Novi Sad on the campus. Six buses were parked.

By the way, party gatherings are not allowed on the campus, because in this way the autonomy of the University collapses.

Photo: Danas/A. cans

Photo: Danas/A. cans

Photo: Danas/A. cans

Photo: Danas/A. cans

Photo: Danas/A. cans

Photo: Danas/A. cans

Photo: Danas/A. cans

Photo: Danas/A. cans

13.40 Buses still leave Kragujevac for the SNS meeting in Belgrade. A column was formed at the highway exit in the Industrial Zone.

All buses have serial numbers and inscriptions – Šumadijski district – Belleville bus and Parking Arena as the locations where they will be located in the capital.

13.34 On one of the buses that went from Kragujevac to Belgrade, there is also a picture of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.

13.29 During the “Serbia of Hope” rally, there will be changes in the operation of certain public transport lines, the City Secretariat for Transport announced.

13.25 Part of the bus is currently parked at the overpass in Partizanska street in Novi Sad. Citizens also gather near Spence, where buses are waiting for them. Judging by the markings on the shirts, supporters of the Socialist Party of Serbia, among others, meet here, reports a Danas reporter.

13.18 The mayor of Vranje, Slobodan Milenković, told reporters that more than three thousand members of the party had set off from Vranje to Belgrade for the SNS meeting.

13.16 They also write about the meeting in Belgrade regional media.

13.10 About twenty buses with citizens of Novi Pazar left before noon for Belgrade, where the meeting of the ruling party “Serbia of Hope” will be held.

13.03 During the morning, 62 buses with members of the progressive party left for the SNS meeting from Vranje alone, sources close to the City Committee of the SNS in this city confirmed to the correspondent of Danas.

12.59 On Medijana Boulevard in Niš, near the DIS, there are eight buses parked with Kosovo registrations and the inscription “Nišavski okrug”, whose drivers speak Albanian and have a map of Belgrade.

12.52 In Kragujevac, buses for Vucic’s rally in Belgrade have been gathering at several points since morning.

According to some information, they will leave for the capital at 1 pm from the big cross at the entrance to Kragujevac in the direction of the highway.

12.37 The association “Peace, harmony, stability” from Skopje organized a trip to Belgrade today to the rally “Serbia of Hope” to support the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.

12.31 In Novi Sad, several vehicles are parked next to the bus at “Tempo” and in Temeriska street. Interestingly, buses near Tempo, as well as in Temeriska, have Hungarian registration marks.

On the other hand, the buses of “Semberija transa” and other carriers from Bosnia and Herzegovina are parked near the Štrand city beach and the Freedom Bridge. Citizens enter the buses in a calm and organized manner. In each bus there is a group leader who checks who has arrived.

In the parking lot near Spence, five more buses are also parked that will transport citizens to today’s meeting, all of them have Bosnian license plates.

12.25 As reported by the correspondent of Danas from Zaječar, he and his colleague from Nova S television were prevented from entering the bus where the TV Pink journalist team was allowed to talk to the citizens who were headed to Belgrade.

The correspondent reports that the president of the SNS city board, Milan Stanković, prevented journalists from Dansa and Nova S television from entering by physically blocking their access.

12.00 Judging by the photos that are circulating on social media, the vehicles of PUK “Parking service”, better known as “the spider”, took away almost all the cars that were properly parked near the Serbian Parliament before 12 o’clock.

11.41 In the next hour, it will be partly cloudy with local showers and thunderstorms, except in the north of the country where dry weather will remain, according to the website of the Republic of Serbia Hydrometeorological Institute (RHMZ).

11.03 In a large number of Belgrade primary and especially high schools, today, classes are shortened due to the rally organized by the Serbian Progressive Party.

11.00 The N1 camera recorded footage in Nis, where people can be seen gathering in front of the train station and wearing transparent “Always with Vučić”, but also interesting symbols on their clothes. Namely, a few of them wore the logos of Pink and Happy television in addition to Vučić’s image on their white T-shirts.

10.45 In Zaječar near the premises of the Public Communal and Housing Company (JKSP) there are buses with Bulgarian license plates loaded with boxes of sandwichesreports the correspondent of Danas from that city.

09.54 An official announcement about which streets will be closed today and where a change in public transport is expected, there is still none.

09.53 Unknown persons punctured the tires of several buses of the Čača road transport company during the night.. The police have been informed about the entire event, and it is assumed that the mentioned incident has something to do with today’s meeting of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in Belgrade.

09.41 MP Aleksandar Jerković posted on his Twitter account this morning, after six o’clock, shared a video showing parked buses in two lanesmost likely on Milutin Milanković Boulevard.

09.35 As reported reporter Nova.rsfrom six o’clock in the morning, buses that left from many cities across Serbia, go in a column one after the other and park in front of the Palace of Serbia.

09.23 He is in Niš for an organized trip to tonight’s meeting of the Serbian Progressive Party “Serbia Nade”. more than a hundred buses were engaged, as well as an entire emergency trainwhich will collect passengers at several points in the city as early as 10 a.m.

08.58 President of the Party of United Pensioners, Farmers and Proletarians of Serbia – Solidarity and Justice (PUPS) Milan Krkobabic said that this party “counts on more than 5,000 people who with its members” will come from the interior of Serbia to today’s “Serbia of Hope” rally.

The “Serbia of Hope” rally, which will be held tonight at 7 p.m. in Belgrade, has been announced as the largest in the history of Serbia.

The Serbian Progressive Party, as the organizer, announced the arrival of supporters from all over the country, but also invited “all people of good will” to come to that meeting.

Last night, Vučić, while visiting Pink, apologized to the people of Belgrade, because “a complete collapse is expected in all parts of the city tomorrow after 2 p.m.”.