Belgrade Media Report 03 April
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic wins presidential elections in first round (RTS/RTV/Beta/Tanjug)
• Vucic wins 44.7 votes in Belgrade (Blic)
• Vucic: Important day to show direction Serbia wants to go (B92/Tanjug)
• SNS: Vucic received 80 percent of votes in Kosovo and Metohija (FoNet)
• Statements by other presidential candidates (RTS)
• Foreign diplomats congratulate Vucic on his victory (RTS/N1)
• President of Belarus congratulated Aleksandar Vucic on his victory (N1)
• Nikolic to be president until 31 May (B92)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Serbian presidential elections; reactions from B&H (Fena/Srna/RTRS)
• Voting in Serbian presidential elections take place at two polling stations in B&H (TV1)
• Dodik: By refusing to support Law on Excise Duties, SDS is playing political game at state level (RTRS)
• Dodik: SNSD MPs will not attend B&H HoR’s session on 5 April (Fena)
Croatia
• Grabar-Kitarovic congratulates Vucic on election victory (Hina)
Montenegro
• Membership in NATO will not endanger relations with Serbia (CDM)
• Membership fee in NATO published (CDM)
• Prime Ministers of Montenegro and Albania congratulates Vucic on election victory (N1)
fYROM
• VMRO-DPMNE presents “Manifesto for a Unified Macedonia” (Meta)
• Ivanov congratulates Vucic on Serbian presidential election (MIA)
Albania
• Rama-Meta 4 hours dinner to decide the future of the coalition (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• EU Congratulates Vucic On ‘Convincing’ Win, Hopes EU Path Remains (RFE/RL)
• Putin congratulates Vucic on winning Serbian presidential election (TASS)
Election Win ‘Toughens Vucic’s Grip on Serbia’ (Balkan Insight)
Political analysts said Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic’s presidential election victory gives him almost unassailable power and means the opposition must change its strategy. Analysts giving instant reactions to Vucic’s first-round poll win on Sunday suggested that his triumph puts the Progressive Party leader in an unprecedentedly strong position to take the country in his […]
Read More →Simić: We want Serbia to manage education in Serbian language in Kosovo (KIM radio)
Serbian deputies do not agree that Kosovo regulates the work of the Serbian education system in Kosovo, said Slavko Simić to RTV KiM. Simić says that recent allegations of the Serbian National Forum (SNF) are not true. The SNF accused the President of the Serbian List of trying to merge University of Pristina (relocated in […]
Read More →U.S. Senator McCain to visit Kosovo on 13 April (Klan Kosova)
U.S. Senator and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, John McCain is expected to visit Kosovo on 13 April, sources told Klan Kosova. It is not yet known who the U.S. Senator will meet during his visit but some of the topics expected to be discussed will include the security situation in Kosovo […]
Read More →Easy morning run of Aleksandar Vučić (N1)
Political analyst Cvijetin Milivojević and editor of daily Danas Dragoljub Draža Petrović estimate that opposition candidates in the presidential election have not done enough to fight for fair electoral conditions. Whoever thought that would beat Vučić in such circumstances was or naive or was joking, said Milivojević. Petrović said that these elections looked like “Vučić’s easy […]
Read More →Viets: Border demarcation agreement strengthens Kosovo’s status (RTK)
In an interview to RTK, German Ambassador Angelika Viets said that the debate over the ratification of border demarcation agreement with Montenegro has been overly polarized. “The border demarcation agreement, reached after three years of work, has been reviewed several times. Among others, this was also done by a group of international experts commissioned by […]
Read More →Vucic Wins Serbian Presidential Elections (Balkan Insight)
Aleksandar Vucic has emerged the victor in Serbia’s presidential elections, scooping about 54.9 per cent of the vote, according to a preliminary estimate from monitoring NGOs. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/vucic-wins-serbian-presidential-elections-04-02-2017-1
Read More →Ballots from Kosovo arrived to Vranje and Raška (N1)
Votes from Kosovo arrived to Vranje and Raška this morning around 1.30, RTS reported. As previously announced by the OSCE in Kosovo, there were no security conditions for the counting of votes at polling stations, so they have transported ballots to Vranje and Raška following the Instructions on the implementation of the presidential elections within […]
Read More →Construction material for the returnees set on fire in the village Dragoljevac (KIM radio)
Ministry for Communities and Return reported that a door and construction material on the house of R.M. were set on fire in the village Dragoljevac, municipality of Istok, as well as construction material for the house of B.Z. The case was reported to the police.
Read More →Surroi: Vucic, a minister when Serbia was killing two-year old children in Kosovo, now president (Koha)
Publicist Veton Surroi posted on his Facebook account today that Aleksandar Vucic was Minister of Information in the Serbian government when “Serbia was killing two-year old children in Kosovo”. Surroi writes: “On April 2, 2017, Aleksandar Vucic was elected President of Serbia. On April 2, 1999, Aleksandar Vucic was Minister for Information in the Republic […]
Read More →Gordy on Vucic: How can he become European all of a sudden? (RFE)
Eric Gordy, professor at the University College London, told Radio Free Europe that Aleksandar Vucic’s victory in the Serbian presidential elections will not bring anything new in the policy that Vucic has led so far as Prime Minister of Serbia and leader of the Serbian Progressive Party. “Vucic will keep playing the card as an […]
Read More →New PM, government to be in place “within two months” (B92)
With the victory of PM Aleksandar Vucic in the presidential elections, the office of the head of the Serbian government has been vacated. A new government will be formed within the next two months, Vucic said late on Sunday. While he was still the presidential candidate of the ruling coalition and his SNS party, Vucic […]
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