Serbian Progressive Party

Democratic Front supporters celebrate their election win in Niksic, Montenegro. Photo: For the Future of Niksic

In the elections in Nikisic, the three blocs comprising the current ruling majority in parliament won 23 of the 41 seats in the assembly. The For the European Niksic coalition, led by the Djukanovic's DPS, won 18.

The Stockhold-based international human rights organisation, Civil Rights Defenders, has condemned what it called "the shameless campaign of the Serbian pro-government tabloid media" against a Serbian investigative media portal, Crime and Corruption Reporting Network, KRIK.

A media foundation named after a murdered journalist has accused MPs from the ruling party of creating a lynch-like atmosphere towards anyone who dares to criticise the government.

If the president of Serbia and the Serbian Progressive Party, Aleksandar Vucic, decides to form a new government without the Socialists, it will not only greatly weaken the SPS, but will also jeopardize Ivica Dacic's position as the head of the party, "Danas" sources from the Serbian political scene claim.

It is a video in which the leader of the Serbian Progressive Party, Aleksandar Vucic, and a six-year-old girl appear.
According to the "Informer", the decision was made with five votes "for" and four votes against it.
With this decision, REM ordered that the broadcasting of the "disputed" SNS video be stopped within 24 hours.

The leader of the small far-right opposition Dveri movement, Bosko Obradovic, on Monday vowed to continue the hunger strike that he started on Sunday in front of parliament until the government negotiates with the opposition on a delay to elections due on June 21.

BIRN contacted ACAS, asking whether it had started probing potential corruption worth tens of millions of euros in public procurement deals, which were won by companies connected to Bojan Kisic, husband of Justice Minister Nela Kuburovic. No response arrived by the time of publication.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, then presidential candidate, greets a supporter during a campaign rally in Nis in 2017. Photo: EPA/Djordje Savic

Serbia's election race will restart where it stopped:

Twitter has removed almost 9,000 accounts that were "working to promote Serbia's ruling party", the Serbian Progressive Party, it said on Thursday.

"Toward the end of last year, we identified clusters of accounts engaged in inauthentic coordinated activity which led to the removal of 8,558 accounts working to promote Serbia's ruling party and its leader," Twitter announced.

Branislav Blazic was born on this day in 1957 in Kikinda.
He was the founder of the Serbian Progressive Party and a member of the Presidency.
He graduated from the Belgrade University School of Medicine and was a specialist in general surgery.