Borko Stefanovic

BELGRADE - Danijela Vujicic from the Aleksandar Vucic - Serbia Must Not Stop electoral list was on Tuesday elected head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija.

Vujicic succeeds longtime chairman Milovan Drecun.

Aleksandar Pavic from the We, A Voice from the People - Branimir Nestorovic list was elected deputy head of the committee.

Despite these attempts, on the "Lie Detector" profile on the X network, it is reminded that "they gave up on everything that could be given - from the declaration of independence, the decision of the International Court of Justice, the relocation of negotiations from the UN to Brussels, which is not favorable to us, down to license plates, identity cards and placing border lines."

BELGRADE - Responding to criticism over Serbia's failure to impose sanctions on Russia, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he would be governed by state interests and make decisions accordingly.

MP of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Vladimir Orlic was elected parliament speaker in an open ballot, with 154 votes in favor and 76 opposed, out of 230 MPs present.
"154 voted in favor, 76 opposed, while there were no abstentions," MP Vladeta Jankovi announced at 9:30 p.m. as the chairman of the constitutive session of the parliament.

The tweets were often presented as supporting evidence of the unpopularity of Vucic's opponents; others were picked up by both Serbian and Russian media as proof of the popularity of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the time of his red-carpet visit to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, in January 2019.

The international journalistic organisation Reporters without Borders ranked Serbia in 90th place in 2019 in terms of freedom of the media, 14 places lower than in 2018. According to the EU statistics agency Eurostat, about 51,000 mostly young and educated people leave Serbia every year.

Pathway to changing the constitution?:

Borko Stefanovic, vice-president of the opposition non-parliamentary Freedom and Justice Party. Photo: EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET

The official explanation of the changes says the current law, adopted in 1994, is restrictive, outdated and inconsistent with Serbia's 2006 constitution.

The protests started on December 8, 2018. They were triggered by an incident a few weeks earlier on November 23, when an opposition politician, Borko Stefanovic, was attacked and beaten in the southern town of Krusevac.

Protesters carry a sign that say "Serbia will not be pacified" and another depicting an Easter egg. Photo: Vuk Velebit.

Elections could also further stimulate the discontent of a large number of citizens who have been holding weekend protests since December 8 last year against Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS.

For the seventh weekend in a row, protesters in Serbia on Saturday marched near major government institutions in the capital, Belgrade, putting more pressure on the government led by the Serbian Progressive Party and President Aleksandar Vucic to stop what they call the political violence in the country.