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Roadblocks replace rallies as Serbian protesters demand new elections

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Roadblocks have been popping up in cities across Serbia this week and people have been deploying dustbins, chairs and other improvised barriers to block junctions in major cities including Belgrade , Novi Sad and Nis .

Students who led the protests declared that they would no longer spearhead the rallies.

They invited other groups to take on the protest mantle and called for a campaign of "civil disobedience" from anyone opposed to the leadership of President Aleksandar Vucic .

So now it is perhaps a question of which side blinks first . And with temperatures already pushing towards 40C , it could be a simmering summer in more ways than one..

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69

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English

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