The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade voted for the initiative that the academic year 2026/2027. the year begins a month later, on November 1 instead of October 1, writes "Danas". Thus, the academic year at the faculties would start after they end extraordinary parliamentary elections in Serbia scheduled for October 25, in which the student movement plays one of the key roles.
The students hope that the professors and the University will support their request this time and allow them to "bring their struggle to an end". The other faculties of the University of Belgrade have yet to make a statement about this initiative.
These days, the plenums of most faculties declare their plans for the beginning of the academic year, because a large number of students will be engaged in the election.
Will there be a blockade of the faculty?
One of the candidates in the future student electoral list, academician and professor of the Faculty of Chemistry in Belgrade, Radomir Saičić, said earlier that he does not think that blocking the faculty at this moment is necessary, but that the situation is changing and that new circumstances need to be responded to.
"Now, blockades in the context that existed then, I don't see that they are necessary. But the situation is changing, the pressures of the authorities and various events in real time bring new situations that need to be reacted to. Will they react and how? I remind you, this is a student movement, now a student-people's movement, not a professor's movement, so it is not up to me to determine what will happen and how it will happen," said Saičić regarding the statement by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, that he knows that blockades are being prepared again faculty.
He added that the political articulation of this protest is already getting its outlines, very concrete and clear, so decisions will be made that way.
Saičić is one of the 14 signatories of the citizens' group "Student list - Students are winning".
He also explained that he would not speak about it on behalf of the students, and if they call for something like that, with a specific goal, reason and explanation, it will "certainly be seriously considered".
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