Despite being only 52 years old, he has been in politics for 30 years. And that won’t change after Sunday’s elections in Serbia: Aleksandar Vucic he will continue to be president of the Balkan country and his SNS party will set the tone in the national parliament in the capital Belgrade.
The surprising thing about it: according to the constitution, the Serbian head of state has only representative tasks – and yet it all revolves around Vučić, with whom all the threads come together in royal politics.
there is no more democracy
In fact, the parliament was only re-elected in 2020. However, Vučić had the new snap election to ensure SNS dominance, merging it with the presidential election. Polling stations close at 8pm. First results are expected late Sunday night. Six hours before the polls closed, 31.56% of the approximately 6.5 million eligible voters had voted, the national electoral commission said.
The media, controlled by Vučić, logically predicted Vučić’s victory in every poll. He even announced that any result below 60% would be a disappointment to him.
The three main opposition parties, the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP), the Popular Party (NS) and the Democratic Party (DS), had the former army chief Zdravko Ponos set up as a common adversary. Almost no chance was given to him.