Serbian Lawmaker: Ruling Party Lacks Strong Presidential Candidate

A Serbian lawmaker from the Green-Left Front (ZLF) party has asserted that the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) is strategically delaying presidential elections. Biljana Đorđević stated that the SNS lacks a suitable candidate for the presidency, which is why they reportedly wish to hold parliamentary elections first.

According to Đorđević, the SNS hopes for a better result in parliamentary elections, which would then position them more favorably for the presidential race. However, she pointed out that constitutional timelines dictate that presidential elections should precede parliamentary ones.

The ZLF party has announced its decision to support a list put forward by a student movement in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Đorđević clarified that the ZLF is not involved in any opposition coalition discussions for the upcoming elections. She expressed hope that all parties participating in the elections will do so rationally and with a minimal number of separate lists.

Đorđević also attended a protest in Čačak with fellow MP Radomir Lazović. The protest was organized by parents of students from an elementary school in Mrčajevci, addressing an incident of violence against a seventh-grade student that occurred at the end of the school year.

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On parliamentary elections, they hope for a better result, and then from that better position to go to presidential elections, and looking at the constitutional deadlines, it should be the other way around – first presidential, then parliamentary elections.