Vučić announced his party’s victory in the elections in Serbia: the opposition claims fraud

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The President of Serbia announced the victory of the ruling party in early parliamentary elections. The Serbian Progressive Party has been in power since 2012. However, the opposition announced vote fraud.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic dissolved parliament on November 1 and set early parliamentary and local elections for December 17, 2023 elections. The previous general elections in Serbia were held in April 2022, with the next parliamentary elections scheduled for 2026.

Allegation of violation

Based on vote counts at individual polling stations, pollsters Ipsos and CeSID expected SNS to receive 46.2% of the vote, with the center-left opposition Serbia Against Violence coming in second with 23.2% of the vote.

This is an absolute victory and it makes me happy,” Vucic said.

“Serbia is against violence” accused the ruling party of rigging the elections. She plans to file a complaint with the state election commission.

Serbia's ties to Russia

• Belgrade condemned the Russian war, but did not support sanctions against Russia. The teacher met with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to ease Western pressure to join sanctions against Moscow. But at the same time, the President of Serbia promised the Russian dictator Putin that he would not join the sanctions and thereby presented his country as an unshakable ally of the Kremlin.
• However, at the same time, Serbia signed an agreement with Azerbaijan to increase natural gas supplies in 2024 to Azerbaijan in order to abandon Russian gas. It is planned to purchase 400 million cubic meters of blue fuel. Recently, this country has been under pressure from the EU, which demanded to coordinate its foreign policy with the bloc and impose sanctions on Russia.
• On December 10, it became known that Serbia and Bulgaria had completed construction gas pipeline, the purpose of which is to reduce dependence on Russian gas. The constructed pipeline has a length of 170 km. It stretches between the Serbian city of Nis and the capital of Bulgaria – Sofia.