The scenes around the Belgrade Arena on Sunday became the main trump card of "Serbia against violence" in an attempt to question the results of the Belgrade elections and call for protests.
Late on Sunday, the leaders of that coalition repeated that it was a question of forty thousand "phantom voters", mostly from Republika Srpska.
"We made a mistake by not coming out immediately in the afternoon with the attitude that we do not recognize the results of the obvious theft," said Zdravko Ponoš, the leader of the SRCE party, on Twitter.
Why exactly 40.000?
But where did the pro-European opposition get the figure of forty thousand people allegedly transferred to Belgrade in order to vote?
"Vremen" journalists could not get an answer to that question even on Monday, since no one from "Serbia against violence" wants to answer questions and calls.
When asked if he could say where the figure of 40.000 came from, Nebojša Zelenović, co-president of the Zajedno party, replied briefly: "I can't, try with your colleagues."
We didn't have better luck with our "colleagues" either. But several of them said informally that the information came from the Freedom and Justice Party, although opinions differ on how credible it is.
Is it possible to get that many people?
"These are some unofficial findings from the police," says one of the leaders of the coalition.
Another source from the same coalition says that it was not possible to conclude from the footage from around the Arena that it was a huge number of people "from the sidelines". "Forty thousand is an impossible number to reach, how many buses would that be?" he says.
"It's possible that Arena was a bait for who knows what," adds this source. He says that the elections were certainly stolen in various ways and that people were definitely dragged to Belgrade, the only question is to what extent.
Basically, the claim that the Serbian Progressive Party became the strongest in Belgrade only thanks to sheer fraud on election day is based on the thesis of forty thousand ostensibly brought voters.
The "Serbia Against Violence" coalition is holding a protest on Monday at 18 p.m., and perhaps more concrete information will be heard from there.
NR / MJ
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