Aleksandar Vučić

He heads the party's list in the 2026 parliamentary election as its candidate for prime minister, and is named in the next Serbian presidential election, which must follow within three months of his resignation.

Career

Vučić graduated in law from the University of Belgrade in 1994. He joined the Serbian Radical Party, entering the National Assembly in 1993, becoming secretary-general in 1995 and Minister of Information in 1998–2000. In 2008 he co-founded the Serbian Progressive Party with Tomislav Nikolić. He was First Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister 2012–2014, Prime Minister 2014–2017 and President from 2017, resigning eight months before his second term ended. He is constitutionally barred from a third term, and Ana Brnabić became acting president.

Positions

Wikipedia describes him as a populist who supports EU accession while keeping relations with Russia and China; commentators have called him authoritarian, and he has said he abandoned the Greater Serbia ideology of his Radical years. Press-freedom groups cited by Wikipedia report heavily favourable airtime for him in Serbian media. Nearly two years of student-led protests have demanded his resignation, which he called turbulence driven by foreign interference.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Meduza · Balkan Insight

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