Vucic: Consultations on New Gov’t Begin on April 2

Aleksandar Vučić (Photo: PrintScreen Instagram/buducnostsrbijeav)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on March 31 that formal consultations on the new Serbian government would begin on April 2 and conclude by April 4.

In an appearance on Pink TV, he said he had sent letters to everyone who headed tickets at the previous elections and to all caucuses in the Serbian parliament and that "five or six tickets responded that they wanted to come in for the consultations."

Vucic said he expected the Serbian Progressive Party to notify him if it wanted to form a new government or if it wanted new elections, adding that there would be no government of experts, interim government or any government demanded by the opposition, but a government that "the majority of Serbian citizens want."

The Serbian president said he expected to meet with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in the next two months, but added that Trump was very busy and things could always change.

He also announced that he would soon present "who was involved in the attempted overthrow of constitutional order in Serbia" and that "Montenegrin drug-running mobster clans" were involved.

Speaking about reports that a sonic weapon was used at a massive protest in Belgrade on March 15, the Serbian president confirmed that members of the Russian Federal Security Service had come to Serbia to look into them, but that he was not sure if representatives of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation would.

Vucic described himself as a faithful and loyal civil servant of Serbia and then said that University of Belgrade rector Vladan Djokic may be faithful and loyal, but not to his country. He went on to accuse Philosophy Faculty of Nis dean Natalija Jovanovic of being deeply involved in crime and state that she "should like" him because he pardoned her, releasing her from prosecution for the "criminal dealings she was involved in."

On the topic of his announced rally in Belgrade from April 11 to 13, Vucic said it would most likely include a protest in front of the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation.