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SNS chooses Vučić as election list leader and candidate for prime minister: “On one side, us, on the other, everyone else”

From N1 Serbia · () Serbian

Translated from Serbian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Serbia’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party chose President Aleksandar Vučić to lead its United Serbia list in the next parliamentary elections and serve as its candidate for prime minister if it wins.
  • Party leaders framed the contest as a choice between Vučić’s list and all other parties, which they linked directly or indirectly to anti-government “blockaders.”
  • SNS officials accused foreign actors of organizing student protesters and said the party would include more students than the rival student list.

Aleksandar Vučić will lead the United Serbia list in Serbia’s next parliamentary elections and become its candidate for prime minister if the list wins, the Serbian Progressive Party’s main board decided.

SNS President Miloš Vučević had announced that the party’s list would be called “Aleksandar Vučić - United Serbia.” He presented the election as a stark choice between the ruling party’s slate, which he said had a program and the country’s “most capable statesman” at its top, and every other list.

The choice is simple: our list, Aleksandar Vučić - United Serbia, and the other lists, directly or indirectly blockader lists.

· Miloš VučevićThe SNS president described the election as a choice between the ruling party’s list and all other lists.

Vučević said votes for other parties would directly or indirectly go to the “blockader side.” “The choice is simple: our list, Aleksandar Vučić - United Serbia, and the other lists, directly or indirectly blockader lists,” he said. He also contrasted a state led by Vučić with one led by opposition figures Đokić and Šoškić.

Only Vučić and the United Serbia list can stand in the way of the evil hanging over the state.

· Ana BrnabićThe parliament speaker endorsed Vučić as the party’s candidate for prime minister.

Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabić said Vučić should serve as both prime minister and list leader because Serbia faced elections. She said only Vučić and the United Serbia list could stop “the evil hanging over the state,” and called for victory by a wider margin than ever before. Brnabić said SNS was not fighting students, but people she alleged had organized them from abroad to bring down Vučić and turn Serbia into a subordinate state. She said the SNS list would include more students than the so-called student list.

Parliamentary group leader Milenko Jovanov described other lists as groups of “faceless people,” called students a “fig leaf” for nongovernmental organizations, and said Vučić was “too Serbian and too much his own man” for the opposing side. Vučić’s mention as a potential prime minister drew prolonged applause at the SNS session.

We will have more students on our list than they have on the so-called student list.

· Ana BrnabićBrnabić responded to the student-led opposition to alleged government policies.
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Originally published by N1 Serbia in Serbian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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