Sapic: I expect to be candidate for Belgrade mayor again

BELGRADE - Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) deputy leader Aleksandar Sapic, who heads the City of Belgrade Interim Authority, expects to be a candidate for mayor again.

In an interview to Tanjug, Sapic said this should be formally confirmed in a few days' time, following a meeting of the SNS Head Committee.

He said that, realistically, April 28 was the earliest potential date for repeat local elections in Belgrade as they needed to be called by a yet-to-be-elected speaker of the national parliament.

Sapic noted that many projects in the city - including a metro system - were yet to be finished.

He said a tunnel-boring machine for the first tunnels had been ordered and that land expropriation for a large number of metro stations had been completed.

"If God is willing, we expect the first line to be completed in 2028 and the second in 2030," he said...