BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is considering calling the third snap parliamentary elections since 2014 to further cement his Progressive Party’s (SNS) grip on power, he said late on Monday.
Vucic, a ultranationalist firebrand during the Yugoslav wars of 1990s who a decade later has become committed to joining the European Union, said “people in the SNS are overwhelmingly for elections.”
The party is considering holding the parliamentary vote alongside local elections due to take place in the capital Belgrade early next year.
“There are serious arguments (in favor),” Vucic said in a live interview with Belgrade-based Pink TV.
“To avoid splitting elections and to prepare the country for European Union entry … as new elections would offer us an uninterrupted time until 2022.”
He did not say when the vote would take place.
