Belgrade Interim Authority

BELGRADE - The head of the City of Belgrade Interim Authority Aleksandar Sapic called elections for the assemblies of the 17 Belgrade urban municipalities for June 2 on Friday.

"The time frames for conducting electoral activities commence starting from today," said Sapic, who called the elections pursuant to a decision by the Authority.

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.

BELGRADE - The head of the City of Belgrade Interim Authority Aleksandar Sapic said on Monday he expected new local elections in the capital to be called within seven or eight days, after the election of a new speaker of the national parliament, who will be in charge of calling the polls.

BELGRADE - The constitutive session of the new Belgrade city assembly was on Friday again postponed until Sunday, March 3 due to a lack of quorum.

The postponement was announced by the chairman of the constitutive session. Socialist Toma Fila, the oldest assembly member.

BELGRADE - The head of the City of Belgrade Interim Authority Aleksandar Sapic said on Monday that, despite the fact Serbia's ruling coalition had a legal and legitimate majority in the capital, a decision had been made to postpone the constitutive session of the new city assembly until March 1 and that new elections would be held if the assembly was not constituted.

BELGRADE - The head of the City of Belgrade Interim Authority Aleksandar Sapic said on Wednesday New Year's Eve celebrations in Belgrade had demonstrated the city was one of the safest capitals in Europe.

"We need to start appreciating the fact we can move in the streets freely even though we live in a metropolis that is developing at tremendous speed," Sapic told Happy TV.

BELGRADE - The head of the City of Belgrade Interim Authority Aleksandar Sapic said on Wednesday repeat local elections in the Serbian capital were quite certain as there was no majority in the city assembly, but noted that he was unsure whether the opposition would run in them.

BELGRADE - Commenting on Sunday's attempt by a part of opposition parties to seize the City Hall through violence, head of the City of Belgrade Interim Authority Aleksandar Sapic said the damage sustained by the Old Palace was irreparable, and added that coming to power through anarchy meant the destruction of a state.

BELGRADE - The head of the City of Belgrade Interim Authority Aleksandar Sapic said on Wednesday he had expected a good electoral result in the capital and noted that the opposition had underestimated him although he had not lost many elections in the past.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade on Water project is the city's greatest development opportunity and the most significant infrastructure project in the country, the head of the Belgrade Interim Authority Sinisa Mali has said.

"The presentation of the project at the real estate fair in Cannes was an outstanding opportunity for us," the Belgrade city administration quoted Mali as saying.