Analyst: United for the Victory of Serbia, Progressives are the Biggest Election Losers

Serbian Parliament (Beta/Petar Vujanic)

Dordje Vukadinovic, a political analyst, said on April 4 that the United for the Victory of Serbia and the Serbian Progressive Party were the biggest losers of Serbia’s polls the day before.

Vukadinovic said to BETA that the coalition United for the Victory of Serbia had performed below expectations. “It turned out that the coalition had cherished an unrealistic hope that it could score twice as many votes as it actually did. It won far fewer parliamentary seats than expected, and is unlikely to join the Belgrade city authorities, even though their focus had been on the Belgrade polls,” Vukadinovic said.

The analyst said that even though the Progressives won 122 seats in the Parliament of Serbia, the result was below their expectations, too.

“A large number of potential Progressive votes went to the Socialist Party of Serbia and smaller right-wing parties for their firm nationalist stance and a decision to side with Russia. Vucic can’t be very happy about it, expecting meetings with Western ambassadors and new pressures from that direction. I assume that because of that Vucic will drag out government formation talks for as long as possible, as he usually does,” Vukadinovic said for BETA.