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People march during an anti-government protest decrying corruption and calling for early elections following the collapse of a railway station canopy in Novi Sad that killed 16 in November 2024, in central Belgrade on May 23, 2026. [AFP]
Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in central Belgrade Saturday to renew calls for early elections that grew out of the anti-corruption movement sparked by the 2024 Nov Sad rail station disaster.
Since the railway station canopy collapse in November 2024, which killed 16 people, calls for a transparent investigation into what happened have snowballed into a push for early polls.
Organisers called for demonstrators to gather between 6:00 pm (1600 GMT) and 8:00 pm at Slavija Square in the city centre, the site of the largest demonstrations over the last 18 months.
