Dragan Đilas

Elections

08.June 2026 MLJ

Djilas and the pro-European coalition: Resurrection of "Serbia against violence"?

Dragan Đilas calls on SRCE, PSG, NPS, Ecological Uprising and other pro-European parties to participate in the elections together with his Party of Freedom and Justice. Is this a revival of the infamously failed coalition "Serbia Against Violence"

MUP

20.December 2025. MLJ

Where is Dragan Đilas' sweater?

Dragan Đilas appealed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia and the Prosecutor's Office to return the sweater that was taken from him exactly one year ago on the night when he claimed that Đorđe Aleksić and he were beaten by people cooperating with SNS

Threats and accusations

09.November 2025. MLJ

"Džukeletina, I will find you personally": Đilas claims that Šapić is threatening him

The mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapić, threatens Dragan Đilas that he will find him when he least expects it, claims the president of the SSP in a post on social networks.

TV dialogue

26.August 2025. MLJ

Vučić's escape from the TV duel: Give me five!

Aleksandar Vučić offers a TV duel to the students, and he himself secretly hopes that he will never win it. Because he did not have a televised duel for 13 years, regardless of countless invitations

Diplomacy in the Balkans

07.August 2025. MLJ

One picture changes everything: Tonino Picula with a rifle

The rapporteur of the European Parliament for Serbia, Tonino Picula, congratulated the citizens of Croatia "Storm" with an old photo from the war, in which he is in uniform and with a rifle. That gesture was condemned in Serbia by both the government and the opposition

Extraordinary session of the High Prosecution Council

15.May 2025. Tijana Stanic

Prosecutors without protection from Vučić's pressures

According to the Commissioner for Independence of the High Council of Prosecutors, pressure on prosecutors in Serbia comes from various sources, but it seems not from the office of President Aleksandar Vučić. "The avoidance of Commissioner Milan Tkalac to explicitly state his position when it comes to the statements of the President of the Republic is professionally unacceptable," the President of the Association of Prosecutors of Serbia, Lidija Komlen Nikolić, told Vreme. What can the president say without it being understood as interfering with the independence of the judiciary

Party turmoil

08.April 2025 KS

Brnabić must pay Đilas 300.000 dinars

The President of the Assembly of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, denies that she received a summons for the hearing on the lawsuit against Dragan Đilas. "Vreme" learns that the Court found that the summons was served on her

Politics

17.February 2025. IN THE

Đilas: Vučić is preparing the ground for violence

SSP leader Dragan Đilas warned that the government is using increasingly harsh rhetoric and intimidation to quell the months-long protests, and that Vučić's statements, in which he even compares the student protests to the fascist march on Rome, indicate that the use of force is being prepared to quell them.

Opposition

02.January 2025. B. B.

Đilas: Ambassador Hill has no right to say that Serbia is going in the right direction

The President of the Freedom and Justice Party, Dragan Đilas, in an open letter addressed to the US ambassador, assessed that Hill "turns a blind eye to what the regime is doing in Serbia" because of the operations of American companies in Serbia and the export of ammunition to Ukraine.

Freedom and Justice Party

01.January 2025. MJ

Threats of violence and death were sent to Dragan Đilas

The leader of the Freedom and Justice Party, Dragan Đilas, received open death threats, the party announced

A fight with the president of the SSP

20.December 2024. IN THE

Luka Petrović: Đilas attacked SNS youth with a bodyguard

"One of the most normal and regular party actions carried out by the SNS youth turned into a bloodbath with a total idiot like Dragan Đilas," Petrović said.

Politics

20.December 2024. Jelena Zoric

Đilas in the Emergency Center after an attack by a group of young men

A group of people pasting posters depicting opposition members as thieves attacked Dragan Đilas. The Party of Freedom and Justice named Luka Petrović, the City Secretary for Investments and a member of the SNS Presidency, as the main whipper.

Political skirmish

19.November 2024. MJ

Did the SSP forge the signature of its former MP?

Big changes are taking place in the Party of Freedom and Justice. Two women deputies left this parliamentary club, and the President of the Assembly immediately took advantage of that opportunity. Brnabić claims that SSP falsified the signature of his, now former MP, on the proposal for a vote of no confidence in the Government

Tragedy in Novi Sad

12.November 2024. Ivan Mitkovski

Opposition protest in Belgrade: "Recycling of nonsense"

What after the protest in Belgrade? Repeating requests that are not being met? Extraordinary parliamentary session? Formation of some survey committees? Another futile protest? Everything seen before. If they have an ace up their sleeve, the leaders of the opposition parties carefully hide it

Project Jadar

12.September 2024. MJ

Hill said that the protests are not leading Serbia to the West - Đilas accuses him of being on Vučić's payroll

American Ambassador Christopher Hill said that there is "no doubt" that Serbia is moving towards the West, and that he sees the protests against lithium as a fight against that path. Dragan Đilas responded to this statement, who sent the ambassador an open letter in which he claims that proved "that he is on Vučić's payroll"

The President of Serbia talks to the citizens of Ljubovia

Mine and politics

08.September 2024. MS

Vučić's marathon in Podrinje: Who is the circus performer here?

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, continued his cruise around Serbia, and so on Saturday it was his turn to talk with the citizens again, but this time in Ljubovia. The main topic was again the "Jadar" project and a few more - roads, water supply, subsidies... While the president of the Freedom and Justice Party Dragan Đilas says that Vučić's circus will soon be locked, Vučić replies that it is a circus that the opposition does nothing ‌

Dragan Đilas is one of the advocates of boycotting the upcoming elections by the opposition

Leader of the Freedom and Justice Party

03.June 2024 IM / N1

Djilas: I don't feel responsible for the result of the opposition

"It was not an election. This country was hijacked by an organized criminal group led by Aleksandar Vučić," says Đilas

Collegium of the Assembly of Serbia

11.April 2024 IM / TS

Djilas to Ambassador Hill: You are supporting an organized crime group with your attitude

The third round of negotiations between the government and the opposition on changes to election conditions also failed, this time attended by EU and US ambassadors. The President of the Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP), Dragan Đilas, spoke about the statement of American Ambassador Christopher Hill that the USA does not look favorably on the boycott of the elections.

Troubles for the opposition

10.April 2024 Nemanja Rujevic

Most of "Serbia Against Violence" is against the boycott of the elections, but quiet for now

Most of the parties that make up the civil coalition "Serbia against violence" oppose the resolute announcement of the boycott of Dragan Đilas. As several sources tell us, there is still not much time to make decisions that could mean the end of that coalition

Belgrade elections

04.April 2024 IM (N1)

Djilas: I hope we won't have elections in June

Đilas is convinced that there will be no elections in Belgrade on June 2

Elections in Serbia in 2023.

08.January 2024. ZS/FoNet/Danas

Đilas appeals to PES: Support us in the request to annul the fighting in Serbia

The President of the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP) Dragan Đilas sent a letter to the presidency of the Party of European Socialists (PES), of which the SSP is a member, in which he appealed for the support of the international community in the request to cancel the elections in Serbia and establish a special international commission to investigate all election irregularities

Protests against "election theft"

25.December 2023. BG

Đilas: Prelić's hooligans caused riots, there will be no Maidan

"Somewhere after an hour and a half from the beginning of the meeting, a group of hooligans appeared, taking out dice and throwing dice at the City Assembly. They are a group of hooligans from the group of Đorđe Prelić, who was convicted of murdering Bris Taton," said the SSP leader.

Election 2023.

11.December 2023. Z.S.

An SNS activist allegedly beat an opposition member with a shovel

An activist of the Serbian Progressive Party beat opposition activist Dragan Colić with a shovel in the village of Jalbotina near Pirot, the opposition claims. Colić was allegedly beaten after a visit by members of "Pirot against violence"

2023 Elections

25.November 2023. S.Ć.

The SNS and Serbia against violence are taking advantage of pensioners

SNS distributes one-time aid and packages to pensioners, and Serbia against violence announces the return of the money stolen from them by the state

Economy

29.October 2023. S.Ć.

Dragan Đilas: Pensioners will be returned the entire amount that was taken from them

Vučić commented on the announcement of the president of the SSP that the retired pensioners will be returned with a request that he first return the money from his own pocket, which, as he said, he stole from parents for kindergartens

Politics

25.October 2023. MJ

The government is afraid of Styrofoam's Dragan Đilas

Since the members of the ruling majority repeat "619 million Dragan Đilas" as a mantra, the opposition decided to bring a styrofoam doll of the SSP leader to the parliamentary session. Đilas from Styropor, however, was not even allowed in the hall of the National Assembly

Politics

18.October 2023. Z.S.

Dragan Đilas calls for the formation of a list "Serbia against violence"

The Presidency of the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP) has adopted the conclusion that a "Serbia against violence" electoral list is the best model for the opposition to appear in the December elections. We believe that the other opposition parties have the same position, the statement of the SSP states