Prime Minister Đuro Macut proposed the dissolution of the Assembly at the Government session on September 7, which the Government accepted at the session. This was a necessary legal procedure, so that Vučić could announce it elections.
From the moment when the Government accepted Matsut's proposal to dissolve the Assembly, a 72-hour deadline began to run, during which the President of the Republic decides whether to accept the Government's reasoned proposal.
In order for the elections to be held on October 25th, as Vučić had previously announced, they had to be called no later than September 10th.
Students have been demanding the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections for more than a year, and they responded to the news about the calling of elections by saying, "We are ready to win."
What about the resignation?
The President of the country, Aleksandar Vučić, said in May, after the protest in Slavija, that his term of office will soon expire that he might resign.
"So, it is possible that I will resign soon," Vučić told reporters in Beijing at the beginning of his visit to China.
He added that he will not shorten the mandate, as President Boris Tadić once did, "with a ruthless wording, because you either resign or you are president until the end of the mandate."
Who is going to the elections?
A month before the deadline for candidacy, at least 16 and maybe 19 lists have already announced their participation in the elections, according to "Vremena" analysis.
So, who will be on the ballot in front of the citizens?
- List of Aleksandar Vučić who will be candidate for prime minister. It is unclear, however, when he will resign as president. The usual small parties should be expected on that list
- Student list whose candidates will be professors, activists and some celebrities. That list is supported by the Green-Left Front, Kreni-Permeni, the Democratic Party, the Movement of Free Citizens and Dveri, but they will not have their own candidates.
- The pro-European coalition consisting of the Freedom and Justice Party, SRCE, the Movement of Free Citizens and the Solidarity movement of Goran Ješić
- The People's Coalition consisting of the National Movement of Serbia, the New Face of Serbia, the Ecological Uprising and the movement of Niš doctor Dragan Milić
- The coalition of the New DSS and the Monarchists, which calls itself the "authentic right"
- "We - the power of the people" by Branimir Nestorović in coalition with the People's Party. It was speculated that the Movement of Socialists Aleksandar Vulin, which claims that it will certainly go to the elections, could also be on that list, just to see how
- The Labor Party of Željko Veselinović said that it is safe to go to the elections. Negotiations with Nestorović failed earlier
- Movement of the Serbian forces of Bogoljub Karić
- "Cale, wrap for you" movement by Petar Đurić
- Union of Vojvodina Hungarians
- The Democratic Action Party of Sandzak, the Sandzak Democratic Party and the Justice and Reconciliation Party tried to make one list, but it is uncertain. Thus, Bosniaks will be represented by one, two or three lists
- It is similar with two Albanian parties: the Party for Democratic Action and the Alternative for Change. Maybe they go together, maybe separately
- Minority Coalition 381, which consists of the Bosniak Civic Party, the Party of Montenegrins, the Wallachian People's Party and the Civic Alliance of Hungarians
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