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Serbia may hold early presidential, general elections in Dec 2026 - Vucic Valentina Bajic 3–4 minutes _____ Oct 6, 2025, 9:07:54 AMArticle by Valentina Bajic <https://seenews.com/news/authors/615> Aleksandar Vucic; Photo by Dimitrje Goll via Serbia's presidency "I officially have a year and a half left until the end of my term. That mandate will likely be shorter, and we will probably jointly hold the presidential and parliamentary elections. I assume in December 2026, maybe a little earlier," Vucic said in a televised interview with Pink TV late on Sunday. The president of Serbia is directly elected, serves a five-year term, and is limited by the constitution to a maximum of two terms. Vucic stated he will not run for president again. "We don't want to change the constitution," said Vucic, whose second term ends in May 2027. Regular parliamentary elections in Serbia are to be held by the end of 2027. Vucic made the announcement after he was asked to comment on a statement by Zdravko Ponos, president of opposition Serbia Centre (SRCE) party, which implied that Vucic's regime is a result of unfinished business after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic following massive demonstrations on October 5, 2000, in Belgrade. Vucic at the time served as minister of information, notorious for restricting media freedom. Vucic has been facing pressure to call early parliamentary elections to be held amid ongoing political turmoil, which began after a deadly train station accident <https://seenews.com/news/public-outrage-grows-over-novi-sad-train-station-roof-collapse-1266039> in Novi Sad on November 1, when a concrete canopy at the station collapsed, killing 16 people. Serbian students have since led a wave of nationwide anti-corruption protests <https://seenews.com/news/anti-government-protests-in-serbia-escalate-dozens-arrested-1280225> , seeking accountability for the accident and challenging Vucic's political dominance. The students first called <https://seenews.com/news/serbian-students-seek-snap-elections-1274756> for snap elections in May. "In the past 11 months [since the protests started], the problem was not exclusively about money coming from outside or money coming from inside. The biggest problem was that all our values were attacked. In these eleven months, all state institutions were attacked and destroyed - education, healthcare, prosecutors' offices, judiciary, police, state administration," Vucic, who has repeatedly said that the rallies have been funded from abroad, told Pink TV. The students accuse Vucic and his allies of controlling all state institutions, suppressing the media and the opposition, weaponising the police, and having ties with criminal circles. Last week, they called Serbian citizens to attend a protest in Novi Sad on November 1, to mark the first anniversary of the train station tragedy. The protests led to the resignation <https://seenews.com/news/update-1-serbias-pm-resigns-amid-mass-protests-1269941> of Milos Vucevic, president of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), as prime minister in January. In April, parliament approved <https://seenews.com/news/serbias-parliament-approves-new-cabinet-1273918> a new cabinet headed by endocrinologist Djuro Macut, who kept in place most of the key ministers from the previous government. SNS has 112 of 250 seats in parliament but thanks to support from its traditional ally, the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) which holds 12 seats, and other smaller parties, it has a strong majority. SNS has been in power since 2012. -- http:www.antic.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/senet/0b5101dc36a7%246a7a4ab0%243f6ee010%24%40gmail.com.
