Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric said yesterday in a news conference that protest walk in Mitrovica North “One of Five Million” is a failure in a political sense, BETA news agency reported.

“In a political sense that gathering has failed. If you have less than 60 persons and they are hired activities, plus bringing people from Kraljevo (…) I would not enter the story on the flows of the money. I have the impression there were people who had to come, what they can do, they have nothing to live on,” Djuric told journalists.

He also noted that people of Mitrovica North, protesting on Friday against intention to merge the northern part of the city with the southern, showed a true strength and unity.

Meanwhile, Srpska Lista in a statement said the protest on Saturday “faced a debacle.” They also thanked the citizens of Mitrovica North who have ignored the gathering they termed “as anti-Serbian”, B92 reports.