"My idea is that the Belgrade elections will be held on June 2, and Ana Brnabić, as the elected president of the Assembly, will call them on April 3," Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced on Sunday evening in a live television broadcast from the Presidency, after a meeting with the leaders of the ruling coalition parties.
There was no "foreign pressure" to postpone the Belgrade elections for two months, he felt that he should emphasize, and repeatedly repeated that it was "his wish" as the president of the republic. He said this to "friends from the party" of which he is a member, "that it is better to lose elections sometimes, than to form a government dishonorably."
"Let's not be Dragan Đilas who forced the socialists to break their word, and they broke their word and deceived the people who voted for them and trampled the will of the people in 2008," said Vučić.
And he continued: "I believe that it is best for the country to calm down passions", so the elections will not be held on April 28, as he previously announced, although he still believes that it is pointless to postpone them. He also said that he was wrong when he said May 5 was the latest legal deadline for holding the Belgrade elections.
And the continuation of the constitutive session is postponed for a week because they want everything to be ready so that all the parliamentary bodies can be formed right after and the Government.