Serbia’s ruling Progressive Party stated that out of its 185 party boards in local cities and municipalities, 35 have already held sessions in which it was decided to support Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic as their party’s candidate for the upcoming presidential elections.
More local Progressive Party boards are holding sessions on Thursday ahead of Friday’s main board session in which its members should officially announce their candidate for spring elections.
Milos Vucevic, vice president of the Progressives’ main board, stated on Thursday that the party has never been more unified and that any attempt to bring divisions within it will fail.
“The Serbian Progressive Party has been facing different challenges, and there will always be [challenges], but none of them will waver us,” he said. “Only we, as a constituent party, can be a guarantor of political stability and national unity.”
Vucevic alleged that all attempts to bring disunity within the Progressives’ ranks were the “attempts of interest-tycoon-mafia centres that want to regain their power over Serbia”.
Vucevic’s comment came following local media reports that Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has decided to run for another term, despite his party having voted to nominate Vucic as its presidential candidate.