SNS

As a symbol of work, large infrastructure projects and investments, everything that has been done in Serbia since the SNS was the main pillar of the Serbian government, the Arena is adorned with the "Bagi Radia" excavator.

Long notorious for his violent behaviour, Belivuk nevertheless spent relatively little time behind bars, a fact some have ascribed to the documented connections between his crime gang and state officials of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS.

At the beginning of this year, Belivuk appears to have fallen out of favour.

Serbia's Commissioner for Information of Public Importance has ordered the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade to review BIRN's request for information on the death of lawyer Vladimir Cvijan, a former associate of the two Serbian presidents.

Cvijan was found dead three years ago, but the public was only notified about his death in March this year.

The mayor of the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad, Milos Vucevic, a senior official in Serbia's ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, will file an as yet unnamed criminal charge on Tuesday against President Aleksandar Vucic, the party announced on Monday - with a view to clearing the President's reputation and exposing the "mafia octopus" that the mayor says has Vucic in its sights.

During the 13 years of the SNS's existence, only four of its officials were in conflict with the boss and had the "privilege" to feel all of Vucic's power.

Early next year, there will be local elections in Belgrade, an election for president and, most likely, parliamentary elections too.

Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, are faring worst in the capital, where the Progressive administration is accused of corruption and mismanagement.

After welcoming the new contingent of Chinese vaccines against coronavirus this morning at the Belgrade airport, he said that issues concerning party organs should not be discussed in the media, regardless of the democratic process in the SNS and the fact that everyone has the right to opinion and position.

"We will see each other in some new movie," Boris Tadic said in May 2012 after losing the presidential race to Tomislav Nikolic, one of the founders of today's ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS.

Certain members of the ruling coalition parties and (formal) opposition parties chose not to support Karel Erjavec as the new prime minister.

Erjavec thus received only 40 of the 46 votes he needed. Having survived the no-confidence vote, Jansa can now continue disassembling state institutions and dealing with anyone critical of his government.

In 2021, Serbia's ruling Progressive Party faces being revisited by the errors of 2020.

A landslide election win in June yielded a parliament without an opposition, likely necessitating mediation by the European Union in 2021 if President Aleksandar Vucic is to head off another opposition boycott come the next election he wants held in 2022.