Vucic speaks about parliamentary elections in Serbia: These are the two most likely dates!

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President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said today that consultations with representatives of political parties will continue on Monday and that early parliamentary elections can formally and legally be held on May 31 at the earliest, while another possibility is the end of March 2027, but that in that case, those would be regular elections.

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After consultations with the representatives of the Movement of Socialists, the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians and the Justice and Reconciliation Party, Vucic said that he had promised the people early parliamentary elections and that this meant that they could be held before the end of the year.

"And I will look to, as much as possible - unless the whole world collapses on us, the way things are going you can't rule anything out - to make good on my promise, and many others," said Vucic.

The president added that he invited parties to discuss 'blockader' (anti-government protesters') demands to call elections.

"They asked for those elections, they are progressing in everything at an incredible speed and they are just about to get to power and it's necessary, when people express such longings, desires and aspirations in such a strong way, I think it's important to respond to them," Vucic said of the opposition sarcastically, and added, "I wanted to hear the views of other political parties and I will address this issue again on Tuesday."

Another topic of discussion today was Serbia's EU integration effort, the president said, and added that the three parties' views are very nuanced and different, while he must take into account all their views and consider what would best express Serbia's interests.

Vucic said that the delegation of the Movement of Socialists, led by Aleksandar Vulin, stated that Serbia needs an urgent government reshuffle, as well as that they are strongly against joining the EU, and against the bloc's unfair stance towards Serbia.

The meeting with Balint Pastor and other members of the delegation of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) was about further development of friendship and partnership between Serbs and Hungarians and about key infrastructure projects in the north of Serbia, namely the province of Vojvodina.

"We also spoke about the imminent launch of the Belgrade-Budapest railway service, but also about new projects. As far as elections are concerned, SVM is always ready for elections and they emphasized that today," said Vucic.

He stated that representatives of the Justice and Reconciliation Party (SPP) expressed their desire for further progress in establishing better relations in the region, primarily with Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

The president added that SPP is not changing its pro-EU and reconciliation policy, and that they also discussed investments and construction of two highways, one of which is the Kraljevo-Raska-Novi Pazar highway.

"And the one, which seems to be even more important for the Pester Plateau and Raska, which goes through Arilje, Ivanjica, Duga Poljana, and past Ugao to Boljare, and we agreed to start working on some other important investment projects, but I have to check what our possibilities are when it comes to this, so I wouldn't promise anything today," said Vucic.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)