Politics of Serbia

BELGRADE - The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) held a closing election rally in Belgrade, and the party's leader Vojislav Kostunica underlined anew that the country should abandon the EU integration path as the policy of neutrality is the only freedom for Serbia.

BELGRADE - Thursday is the last day for the political parties to try to win the trust of voters as the election silence ahead of Sunday's snap elections will begin at midnight.

The election silence will last by the close of polls at 20:00 CET on March 16.

According to the latest opinion poll by polling agency Faktor Plus, the number of sway voters stands at 20 percent.

BELGRADE - Democratic Party (DS) leader Dragan Djilas has said that the DS will never hope for the Ukrainian scenario or the North Korean one, where one hundred percent of people vote for one man, but it rather wishes a Serbian scenario.

Family members, friends and political followers of Zoran Djindjic visited the former Prime Minister's grave in the Alley of the Greats in Belgrade's New Cemetery on Wednesday, marking the 11th anniversary of his untimely death.

A party delegation led by the president of Djindjic's Democratic Party, Dragan Djilas, and by his widow, Ruzica, laid wreaths at his grave.

BELGRADE - Serbian government officials laid in the centre of Belgrade on Wednesday a wreath at the commemorative plaque dedicated to Serbia's assassinated Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, with members of Djindjic's government, citizens and party associates also there to pay their respects.

SARAJEVO - European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur on Serbia Jelko Kacin has voiced expectation that it will be revealed who ordered the assassination of Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic as the Serbian leadership have the political will for that.

BELGRADE - New Democratic Party (NDS) leader Boris Tadic said on Monday that the new Serbian government must be formed soon after the March 16 parliamentary elections to avoid the country's economic collapse.

A social consensus is also needed on cutting costs as well as on investments and kick-starting economic development, Tadic told TV Pink.

BELGRADE - Over the past year and a half, Serbia has pursued a policy of being a reliable partner to investors, and it will continue to do so in the coming period, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said at a meeting with a delegation of construction materials maker Lafarge Serbia.

Boris Tadic and Dragan Djilas, the former and current presidents of the Democratic Party, are battling for third place in the upcoming Serbian elections.

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."