Zdravko Ponos

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday he was proud of the progress of the Serbian Armed Forces.

Those who have destroyed the army now view its progress "with envy and malice," Vucic told reporters in a comment on a statement by opposition politician Zdravko Ponos about investments in the military.

She mentioned that it was not a meeting of Vui and Djilas, but a meeting of the re-elected president of the country with the president of one parliamentary party.

Elections in Hungary and Serbia stimulate tensions

National elections were held on April 3 in both Hungary and Serbia. In Serbia, the parliamentary election coincided with presidential and local elections in 12 municipalities, including the capital, Belgrade.

The list "Aleksandar Vui - Together we can do everything" has won the most votes - 42.91 percent of votes, i.e. 120 parliamentary mandates.
The coalition "United for the Victory of Serbia" with 13.69 percent of votes or 38 seats is second, and the third list is "Ivica Dacic - Prime Minister of Serbia", which won 11.43 percent of votes or 32 seats.

Ljubljana/Belgrade – The only news after the presidential and general elections in Serbia was the result of opposition parties, while everything else had been known in advance, as all mechanism for election victory had been in the hands of Aleksandar Vučić, Borut Šuklje, a former Slovenian diplomat and an expert on the Balkans, told the STA on Monday.

The results of Serbia's presidential and parliamentary elections show that Aleksandar Vucic and his Serbian Progressive Party (SPP) have won convincing victories.

In a joint forecast, election observer CeSID and the sociological organization Ipsos predict that Vucic will win a second five-year term as president, receiving almost 60% of the vote.

A Serbian-based NGO observing the parliamentary elections, CESID, said that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic won another five-year term in the first round, and that his Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, had won the most votes at the parliamentary elections and will again dominate the 250-seat parliament.

Military veteran Zdravko Ponos, an opposition candidate for president in an election in April, tells BIRN that Serbia will struggle to recover from five more years of Aleksandar Vucic.

The Challenger

Military veteran Zdravko Ponos, the joint presidential candidate of United Serbia. Photo: Private archive

The People's Party (Narodna Stranka) has been founded in Belgrade; former Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic has been elected as the new party's leader.

At the Founding Assembly, in the presence of 352 delegates, Jeremic was unanimously elected as the party's president.