One part of the opposition, headed by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), held a rally Saturday in Zrenjanin, northeastern Serbia, with SNS leader Tomislav Nikolic once again calling for early parliamentary elections.

At the rally dubbed 'Changes for Serbia', Nikolic said it is high time the Serbian people ruled Serbia through their representatives, which is why SNS started the rallies.

"I will take the responsibility for what will happen, and it will be good for Serbia," the SNS leader said before several thousand members and supporters of the SNS, New Serbia (NS), the Movement of Socialists and the Strength of Serbia Movement (PSS), many of whom came on buses from Novi Sad, Belgrade and other towns.

The SNS got the best acknowledgement of its policies during the visit of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who said that Serbia should be a link between the West and the East in the EU when he visited the Serbian parliament, Nikolic said.

That is our platform - both the East and the West, said the SNS leader.

SNS deputy leader Aleksandar Vucic assessed that the government is silencing the truth and "people are forbidden from saying what their think."

New Serbia leader Velimir Ilic strongly criticized the government's performance.

Reminding that the government promised highways and jobs for 400,000 people three years ago, he said that 300,000 people have been let go instead.

Member of the SNS presidency and chairman of its Zrenjanin city committee Goran Knezevic, PSS leader Milanka Karic and Movement of Socialists leader Aleksandar Vulin also spoke at the rally.

The protest which lasted around 90 minutes ended without incidents, with sizeable police presence and video surveillance.