While Aleksandar Vučić is holding a position in the state, there is no consideration of a new representative for that position. Thus, he held the position of Prime Minister from 2014 to 2017 in two mandates, a elections were then prematurely held purely for the progressives to cement their position and better position themselves in relation to the coalition partners.
However, since Vučić is no longer in the position of prime minister, but in the position of president, in eight years Serbia has had as many as three prime ministers in five mandates. What is due to the crises of the government and student protests, which is due to Vučić's dissatisfaction with the personnel, or simply to maintain the atmosphere of a state of affairs in which attention is diverted from essential matters.
"Serbia 2035"
Political scientist Đorđe Vukadinović told Nova that he thinks that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić plans to be prime minister in the future and that his earlier announcements about retiring from politics were not sincere. He stated that the announcement of the presentation of the "Serbia 2035" program clearly indicates that Vučić plans to take up a new position.
"It is completely unimportant what his position is called, he can be a porter in the government, but the baton will be with him," said the polylogist.
Vučić announced that, "after the anniversaries have passed", the program for the development of Serbia until 2035 will be presented in March at a political meeting in Belgrade. He said that the meeting will be held on March 20, 21 or 22, in front of the House of the National Assembly or on Republic Square.
Cutting off the heads of prime ministers
Vučić "removed" Ivica Dacić from the post of Prime Minister in 2014, because he believed that this was not the will of the Serbian voters and that he should be the Prime Minister.
After he handed over the prime minister's baton in 2017, Serbia had as many as three prime ministers in five mandates. Ivica Dačić temporarily performed this function, to be taken over by Ana Brnabić. After it turned out that President Vučić was very dissatisfied with her participation in the elections, and especially with the results achieved in Belgrade, extraordinary parliamentary elections followed again.
Miloš Vučević had one of the shortest mandates, who resigned in January 2025, after the attack on students in Novi Sad the previous night.
"We believe that we are objectively responsible for what happened and therefore we are submitting our resignations," said Vučević, who was elected to the position of prime minister in May 2024.
Aleksandar Vučić shortened his mandate in 2017 because of the "bad atmosphere in society", but also in order to participate in the elections and become president.
Lifetime rulers
By trying to stay in power as long as possible and maintain the semblance of a democratic process, Vučić maintains Serbia as a "hybrid regime" or a country with a partially free status. They are led by politicians similar to him. Thus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in power continuously for more than three decades. He became the Prime Minister of Turkey in 2003. He has held this position continuously since August 2014, when he became the president of the country.
The longest-serving president in Europe is the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, who has held that position continuously since July 1994. He won the presidential elections seven times. Every time, except the first, he won in the first round. He even organized a referendum, in which about 80 percent of Belarusian voters voted to abolish the limit on the number of presidential mandates.
The media announced Lukashenko's new victory in January 2026 with the headline: Lukashenko and Belarus: Until death do them part.
Vučić certainly looks up to him Putin's government, who has been in power longer than any Russian leader since Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. He has led Russia continuously since the end of 1999, changing the positions of prime minister and president. In 2000, he became the President of Russia for the first time, he was re-elected in 2004, and in the period from 2008 to 2012 he served as the Prime Minister of Russia, and during that time he found an adequate replacement. Dmitry Medvedev, in order to change the law and become the leader of the state again.
The former president of Montenegro was definitely in this company Milo Djukanovic, who was first elected on February 15, 1991, on his 29th birthday, making him the youngest head of government in Europe at the time. After that, he was the head of the Montenegrin government six more times, and his political biography included two mandates as president of Montenegro.
The former president of Republika Srpska also stands out in the team Milorad Dodik and the current Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, but they still spent a period of time in the opposition after coming to power. And after Dodik left the head of Republika Srpska, the government still works there - under his baton.
The current Hungarian prime minister, who is loved by both Putin and Trump, and especially Vucic, spent eight years in the opposition after the end of his first term as prime minister, which he held from 1998 to 2002. Orban returned to power in 2010 and hasn't let it go since.
