Although elections he has been speaking in Serbia for months, and the president Aleksandar Vučić announced their announcement on several occasions, the exact date still remains unknown. Since the passing of the spring deadline, through summer guesses, and speculations about December this year, the public has become accustomed to political messages in which elections are mentioned as inevitable - but without a precise answer when citizens will actually go to the polls.
As a confirmation of this, Vučić announced during the press conference today that "the elections will take place when the competent state authority makes a decision, in accordance with the Constitution and the law." And he added: certainly before the constitutional and legal deadline". Well, let the opposition and citizens who demand the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections in the streets guess when it could be - in what month or at the end of 2027.
He also stressed that "they" will probably win the elections, because they themselves say in their research that they have a huge advantage.
"They are big favorites, I admit that to them, but they cannot take away my right to fight with like-minded political people, people who don't want to turn Serbia into a pigsty and den, against those who would like to do that out of the country," said Vučić.
So if they win, he will congratulate them, but "first let's count the votes from the boxes and then we'll announce the victory, so it won't be like in Zaječar and Kosjerić."
Elections, elections
On the other hand, the daily newspaper "Danas" claims that the top of the Serbian Progressive Party is most likely considering December 28 of this year, but that October and January 2026 are also being considered.
And the otherwise divided opposition in Serbia is not united in what to do in the next elections, whenever they are called. While some demand an immediate announcement and join the students and citizens who have been protesting for months across Serbia, the other part insists that before the change of the electoral system and the general revision of the voter list, there can be no talk of holding the next parliamentary elections.
They remained there, where the barely united opposition split again into "boycotters" and those who are not: in the period after the extraordinary elections held in December 2023.
Unlike the opposition, students are unique. They want elections as soon as possible.
For the students in the blockade, as could be heard countless times, the holding of the elections always suits them, since on May 5 they demanded their immediate announcement and they are not giving up on that. The election list of their candidates has already allegedly been drawn up - it's just that they are keeping it secret, and the basics of the program were read out at a protest on June 28 in Belgrade.
There will be nothing to change the election conditions, and after everything that has happened since November 1, 2024, the question is what else would have to happen to force Vučić to call for special elections, if research tells him that he cannot win them reliably even with the usual tricks, fraud and a tampered voter list.
And what does the law say?
According to the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia and the Law on the Election of People's Deputies, parliamentary elections must be called no later than 90 days after the expiration of the mandate of the current convocation of the Assembly, which lasts four years from the day of its formation. Since the current composition of the parliament was elected in December 2023, and the constitutive session of the new parliament was held on February 6, 2024 — its mandate would formally end in December 2027, and elections would have to follow by law no later than February or March 2028.
The experience of the previous decade teaches us that Vučić called those massive early elections when he was sure that SNS would win. For now, election date bidding looks like trial balloons.
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