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News

12.October 2026 M.T.

Splitting of the SPS: Ivan Đoković and Boris Milićević also left

Two more prominent officials left the Socialist Party of Serbia less than two weeks before the October 25 election. Boris Milićević called voters to vote for the Student List, and Ivan Đoković is joining Branko Ružić's new party, which will be registered in November.

Vice President of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)

Politics

10.October 2026 BM

Branko Ružić founds a party: "I'm not creating a new SPS"

After being expelled from the SPS, Branko Ružić is preparing to establish a new political party, which he says will not be based only on people who left the socialists. He announces a gathering of former and current SPS members, as well as citizens who have not been politically engaged until now

SPS officials Ivica Dačić and Branko Ružić

News

09.October 2026 MLJ

The fight in the SPS continues: Who went after Ružić?

13 new socialists, including one candidate for MP, resigned from the SPS. Who has gone after Branko Ružić so far? How will the voters react to it?

New issue of "Vreme"

07.October 2026 DS

Šapić's Sixth October: Cheap nose breaking

Aleksandar Šapić remains the mayor of Belgrade for the time being, despite beating the opposition councilwoman. When asked by "Vremena" about it, representatives of the authorities remain silent

Politics

05.October 2026 B. B.

"Vreme" learns: 16 more officials left the SPS collectively "because of their beliefs".

"Ideas are older than functions, bigger than individuals and more permanent than organizations", it was stated in the joint statement of 16 officials and members of the SPS who left the party just a few weeks before the extraordinary parliamentary elections.

Socialist Party of Serbia

02.September 2026 Marija L. Jankovic

Socialists from Knić: "Most young SPS members think like Branko Ružić"

Two SPS councilors from Knić defected from the socialists in the local Assembly at the beginning of August because they refused to cooperate with "violent and uneducated" progressives. Now they say to "Vreme" that most of the people around them who are still in the SPS think like Branko Ružić

Leaving the SPS:

02.September 2026 IN THE

Kuršumlija: "We are withdrawing from the SPS due to the expulsion of Branko Ružić"

Two officials of the Socialist Party of Serbia from Kuršumlija, Dejan Ćurčić and Milan Stepanović, left the SPS after the expulsion of Branko Ružić, judging that the party thereby betrayed its own ideology and moved away from its original program

Branko Ružić, former minister and vice president of SPS

Ružić and the socialists

01.September 2026 B. B.

Ružić will return the mandate because it is "socialist responsible"

"You can exclude a person from the party with an administrative decision. You can't exclude an idea from a person," stated Branko Ružić

Analyze

01.September 2026 Nemanja Rujevic

Dacic is jumping on Vucic's political pyre

Ivica Dačić symbolically offered Branko Ružić as a sacrifice to Aleksandar Vučić before the crucial elections. But it seems that Ružić has already achieved something with his role as a "dissident". Because he was saying what the socialists think about the progressives anyway, based on the depth of the party

SPS vs SNS

22.August 2026 IN THE

What was Branko Ružić's response to Vućić's accusations of theft

SPS official and former minister Branko Ružić responded to the harsh criticism of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, who previously accused him that "money and business plans" were always the most important to him and that his political trail was marked by "petty thievery".

Election combinatorics

19.August 2026 Marija L. Jankovic

The fight to stay in power

Why are the progressive allies falling apart and will they "stick together" again after the election?

Early Elections

18.August 2026 IN THE

Vučić: We don't expect anyone's help, SNS must win on its own

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said that the decision of the Socialist Party of Serbia to stand alone in the parliamentary elections is a clear signal that the Serbian Progressive Party will have to fight for the majority on its own. He said that they do not expect anyone's help after the elections and that they will fight to win convincingly

Socialists

18.August 2026 Marija L. Jankovic

Will Branko Ružić be on the SPS list for the elections?

Dušan Bajatović stated on Pink TV that Branko Ružić, his party colleague, will not be on the SPS list for the elections. Ružić then told "Vreme" that he never publicly argues with party comrades

Socialist Party of Serbia

17.August 2026 AI

Dacic: SPS goes to the elections independently

The President of the Socialist Party of Serbia and the Minister of the Interior, Ivica Dacic, put an end to speculations about how the SPS will participate in the extraordinary parliamentary elections.

Coalitions

08.August 2026 Nemanja Rujevic

Socialists decided to go to the elections independently?

There are many hints from the SPS that this party will go to the elections independently, but it is possible that they will do without the innkeeper - Aleksandar Vučić. At the same time, there is a silent war going on among the socialists about the attitude towards the progressives

Elections

06.August 2026 N. Rujević

Ružić: The SPS can reach seven percent if it is not a copy of the SNS

Many socialists are now in worthless positions because they gave up their politics for them, says Branko Ružić for the Austrian agency

SPS official Branko Ružić in front of a big red banner with the inscription Socialist Party of Serbia

Socialists at the local level

05.August 2026 Marija L. Jankovic

Branko Ružić for "Vreme" about Knić: "Even at the top of the SPS, there is an alarming lack of self-esteem"

Two SPS councilors from Knić broke away from the socialists in the local Assembly because they no longer want to deal with "violent and uneducated" progressives. One of them tells "Vreme" that "SNS in Knić is a violent group of uneducated people" with whom they do not want to cooperate now, or ever again. Branko Ružić says for "Vreme" that it is alarming that tendencies to renounce the original principles and masochism exist not only at the local level, but also at the very top of the SPS

Interview

21.July 2026 AI

Ružić: A politician who is afraid of young people has lost contact with society

In an interview with the Italian digital magazine "Report Difesa", which is focused on geopolitics, national and international security, the official of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Branko Ružić, expressed some views that neither his party leader, Ivica Dačić, nor the head of the ruling coalition, Aleksandar Vučić, will like.

Kosovo

14.July 2026 CI

Dacic: "Shameful and hypocritical" attacks on Minister Paunović

Snežana Paunović's controversial statement that she would have ethnically cleansed Kosovo if she were Milošević caused numerous reactions in the public. Part of the opposition demands her resignation, Ružić defended himself, Dacić defended her, and the European Commission says that such rhetoric has no place in Europe.

Kosovo

14.July 2026 Marija L. Jankovic

Who is Snežana Paunović, the creator of the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo

On the International Day of Remembrance of the Genocide in Srebrenica, Serbian Minister Snežana Paunović stated that she would ethnically cleanse Kosovo. She is an economist from Peć, who was also a member of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija

01.June 2026 Katarina Stevanović

Why Ivica Dacic was reborn

What did Ivica Dacic say when he said that he was born again and that both the state and the party should use it

Politics

29.May 2026. IN THE

Trivan: SPS should go to the elections independently

SPS official Goran Trivan said that this party should not be in a coalition with SNS in the next parliamentary elections.

Early Elections

12.May 2026. IN THE

Ružić: It would be best if the students won, there will be no elections in the summer

The Vice President of the Main Board of the SPS, Branko Ružić, assessed that there will be no extraordinary parliamentary elections this summer and said that the SPS should not be in a coalition with the SNS in the next elections.

Local elections 2026.

01.April 2026. IN THE

Panović: Elections below the democratic minimum, the student option has the most support

According to Demostat research, the student option currently has the most support in Serbia, and its association with the opposition could bring about a key political change.

Vranje

28.October 2025 Ivan Mitkovski

SPS officials' attack on InfoVranjska journalist: "Pigs with bulging eyes"

Local SPS official in Vranje, Darko Stanojević, vulgarly insulted the editor of the "InfoVranjska" portal Mihajlo Stojković and his family, calling him a "pig with bulging eyes". The reason for this reaction was a newspaper article about the mobbing of local health center workers to go to the regime rally. There is no reaction from the competent institutions, as before

Socialist Party of Serbia

05.April 2025. B. B.

Branko Ružić: I respect the judgment of the party, but I will appeal

"Politics is the art of the possible, we are a serious party, with a state-building orientation," said the vice-president of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Branko Ružić.

Politics

04.April 2025. MS

SPS suspended Branko Ružić

According to the media, the Socialist Party of Serbia has suspended Branko Ružić from all positions in the party for six months