Vucic: Oppsition Can Criticize Me, My Work Gives Results Like Highway

Vucic on highway (BETAFOTO/ Milan Obradovic)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Aug.18, on the eve of the inauguration of a section of a highway connecting Belgrade and Cacak, western Serbia, that the opposition could criticize and throw slurs at him all they wanted but that his work produced results, like a said highway.

Vucic said the highway, dubbed Milos the Great in honor of 19th-century Serbian ruler Milos Obrenovic, would be the pride of Serbia and connect it to the "brotherly people of Montenegro."

"No one could do that before because they didn't have the money. Now we can because we have money from difficult reforms," Vucic said while on a drive across the new section of road in a roofless bus.

The Obrenovac-Ljig stretch is 62.7 kilometers long and costs USD333.7 million.

To date, 103.06 kilometers of the highway have been built along the E 763 route, along Corridor XI, which is supposed to connect Belgrade with the Montenegrin coast.

Vucic said the official name of the road, E 763, "doesn't mean anything" to him.

"E 763 doesn't mean anything to me, but Milos Obrenovic means a lot. He was a man who stayed with his people after the First Serbian Uprising (1804) to launch the Second Serbian Uprising (1815). He created the first free constitution. This was a man who was illiterate yet left schools, educational institutions, and museums behind him. I'm happy and proud that the road is named after him," Vucic said.