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Serbia’s Prime Minister Miloš Vučević has resigned following weeks of mass protests over a fatal accident at a railway station in the north of the country that has been blamed on government corruption.
The demonstrations were triggered by the collapse of the railway station roof in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second-largest city, on November 1, killing 15 people. The public backlash over the disaster has turned into the biggest challenge to strongman President Aleksandar Vučić’s tight grip on power, who has been in office since 2017.
The roof collapsed following renovations to the station by a consortium led by two Chinese companies that are also building a railway line between Budapest and Belgrade. Vučević, a close ally of the president, was mayor of Novi Sad when the construction work started.
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