Vucic: I Expect 4.1 Million People to Vote, Over 50 Percent Support to United Serbia Ticket

Aleksandar Vucic (BETAPHOTO/Milos Miskov)

On Oct. 19, former president of state and the main candidate of the United Serbia ticket Aleksandar Vucic called on the public to vote in the Oct. 25 snap parliamentary elections and expressed his expectation of a 4.1 million voter turnout – as well as 50 percent support to his coalition.

“People, they’re lying to you about a big turnout. I want as many of you as possible to vote. Any votes above 63 percent mean that we will get a significant number of people voting for us rather than them,” Vucic said in an appearance on Pink TV.

Describing voters as “decent but scared folk,” the ex-president insisted that the goal of his Serbian Progressive Party is to “protect the homeland” in the snap elections.

“We won’t do a single thing except prevent you from stealing the electoral will of the people. We won’t let you steal sacks of ballots or election records, we won’t let you steal a single vote in Serbia. If our polls prove wrong and if the people of Serbia are thrilled to have [Serbian Orthodox] Bishop Nikolaj [Velimirovic] equated to [Croatian Catholic Cardinal Aloysius] Stepinac, then we will offer our congratulations,” Vucic said, referencing the very manner of voting fraud his regime has been accused of in the past, along with the canonized Velimirovic, who was imprisoned by the Nazis in WW2, and the controversial, beatified Stepinac, who was sentenced as a Nazi collaborator in 1946.