The election was marred by accusations of voter intimidation and a near total domination of Serbia's media by Vučić and his populist conservative Serbian Progressive Party.

[8] A set of demands have been presented to endorse a democratization of the country, including measures to limit and oversee the President-elect's firm control.

They also called for all "corrupt public officials" to quit, and for all media editors not respecting the press code to be held accountable.

[11] The media reported that there is a possibility of protest radicalization by blocking the major city streets, bridges and universities.

There were large number of incidents on government rally, including attacks on journalists and anti-government protesters by SNS supporters and, so called, party parapolice members.

[21] On 13 April, protesters set local demands including stronger budgetary control of institutions, introduction of participatory budgeting at the municipal level, criminal prosecution of corrupt judicial officials, fiscal transparency, and stopping nepotism.

[22] On 17 April, protesters began funny chants towards the controversial[23] disability pension of city major Darko Bulatović.

[24] On 18 April, protesters organized a performance by giving away fake PhD degrees to citizens,[25] referring to plagiarism affairs involving public officials in Serbia.