SNS leader expects his party to win "more than 40%"

SNS leader expects his party to win "more than 40%"

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vučić has said that he expects his ruling Serb Progressive Party (SNS) to win "more than 40 percent of the vote."

He at the same time added that "the number is not important, but what can be done after elections."

"I live to achieve a result for Serbia, for people to see it, and even those who personally do not like me are saying they are happy that the Arab loan will save more than EUR 300 million for the country," the deputy PM was quoted as saying by the daily Blic.

Asked if he was "afraid of the amount of power he has and will have," Vučić said he was afraid "of the huge responsibility and inability to reach everywhere, to achieve everything he wants."

Asked who he would enter a post-election coalition with, he said he "does not think about it, but it's clear who it will not be."

"Sometimes I smile when I hear that some are saying they will not join us, and we did not even invite them. As if they were the ones who had 40 percent," Vučić commented.

Asked whether Boris Tadić's NDS or Ivica Dačić's SPS were "closer" to him, Vučić stated he "respected them all and listened to what they had to say," and described his work with Dačić so far as "correct."

"Boris Tadić surprised me when he referred to 'Belgrade on the Water' project as election manipulation. Tadić knows me, he must know who the people we work with are, he knows the importance of this project for Serbia," said Vučić.

He added he also "respects the position of Čedomir Jovanović, who reacted responsibly when some, referring to the Ukrainian scenario, said that Serbia was fed up with Ukrainian, Bosnian and other...