Aleksandar Vucic (BETAPHOTO/DRAGAN GOJIC/DS)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, also the Serbian Progressive Party leader, said on March 23 that the opposition knew there would be no election rigging, and that the ruling coalition would win “five to one, at least.”
“I told them (the opposition) a million times that they would never win, but that I would step aside instead, and do it of my own accord. I’ll also let Serbian citizens know when I’m stepping down and why, and I’ll do it by myself at some point. I don’t think they can win without a platform, a plan or politics,” Vucic said in an interview with the Pink TV.
The president said that the opposition would need to admit that the government’s campaign was the purest possible, and that “not a single name came up during the campaign.”
In a comment on a statement by the lead candidate of the United for Victory coalition, Marinika Tepic, that the coalition would have 23000 controllers across Serbia, Vucic said that “representatives of the former authorities will surely have more controllers than the Serbian Progressive Party.”
According to the Progressive leader, the coalition had lost 20 percent of voter support due to their campaign. Vucic attributed most of the loss to the refusal of coalition members to appear on the Pink TV, adding that their appearances in the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation (RTS) shows were good for him.
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