President Vucic starts consultations with parties, meets with Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians officials

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President Aleksandar Vucic met this morning with representatives of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM). The meeting took place at the Presidency of Serbia in Belgrade.

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Balint Pastor, the SVM leader, represented the party.

President of the National Assembly of Serbia Ana Brnabic previously announced that Vucic will start social dialogue with all political actors on two topics - early parliamentary elections and the direction of the country's general foreign policy.

Earlier in the day, Vucic held consultations with representatives of the Movement of Socialists, while a meeting with representatives of the Justice and Reconciliation Party will follow later on Friday.

After the meeting, Balint Pastor addressed the public:

"We had a meaningful conversation with President Vucic. We discussed two topics, the foreign policy course of Serbia, that is, all these challenges that the entire region and the world are facing, and the second topic was the possibility of holding early parliamentary elections. The Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians has been a pro-European party for 32 years and that will not change, but we must note that the EU is not what it was 30 years ago, that the EU is not the biggest peace project in the world."

"Certain European Parliament officials are hostile towards the entire region of the Western Balkans. There are some EU moves that are not fair, such as this new border crossing system where citizens of Serbia, a country that has been a candidate for full EU membership for 15 years, our citizens are harassed at the border, fingerprinted, photographed. On the other hand, Serbia has complided with a lot of what they asked from the EU, extraditing generals, changing the Constitution, dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. This is the reality of today's EU, but regardless of that, we think that the future of Serbia is in the EU and we should do everything to make it happen," said Pastor.

He also touched on the topic of elections.

"We told the president that the position of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians is that stability, predictability and development come first. Preparations for EXPO are underway now, and we don't think it's time for early elections, but if they happen, that can be on May 31 at the earliest, if so, we are absolutely ready and the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, be elections early or regular, will certainly participate independently, as was the case in previous years," concluded Pastor.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)