Since the outbreak of current mass protests throughout Serbia, “defence of Vojvodina from the separatist aspirations of some people” has become commonplace in the public speeches of the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and his associates. The narrative was given particular visibility on 15 February, when the so-called “Declaration on Vojvodina” was adopted at the pro-government rally in the town of Sremska Mitrovica.
The document states that the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is “an inseparable part of… the identity of modern Serbia, and just as Serbia does not exist without Vojvodina, so Vojvodina cannot exist outside Serbia”.
