Boris Tadić

BELGRADE - Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader Aleksandar Vucic expects his party to win more than 40 percent of the votes in the upcoming elections, but says that the figure itself is not important.

What matters is what one can achieve after the elections, Vucic told the Belgrade daily Blic.

Boris Tadic and Dragan Djilas, the former and current presidents of the Democratic Party, are battling for third place in the upcoming Serbian elections.

SNS leader expects his party to win "more than 40%"

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vučić has said that he expects his ruling Serb Progressive Party (SNS) to win "more than 40 percent of the vote."

He at the same time added that "the number is not important, but what can be done after elections."

City election commission releases complete list

BELGRADE -- The City Electoral Commission (GIK) has released a complete list of slates for early local elections to be held in Belgrade on March 16.

Ballot papers will contain the slates of 23 parties, coalitions and groups of citizens, GIK Chairman Zoran Lukić told Tanjug on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The City Electoral Commission (GIK) has released a complete list of slates for local elections in Belgrade on March 16, which will contain the slates of 23 parties, coalitions and groups of citizens, GIK Chairman Zoran Lukic told Tanjug on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The first Serbia-Russia business expo and the first Belgrade business forum were opened in Belgrade on Wednesday with participation of 87 Russian and 100 Serbian companies.

The expo, which is organized in Hotel Metropol Palace, brings together companies from the sectors of traffic, energy, medical equipment and agriculture.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) will win 44 percent of votes in the March 16 elections, ahead of the coalition gathered around the Serbian Socialist Party (SPS) with 13 percent of votes, states the latest survey of the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) published in the Monday's edition of the Belgrade-based daily Blic.

SUBOTICA - The leaders of a coalition gathered around the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) and the New Democratic Party (NDS), Nenad Canak and Boris Tadic respectively, have said after a convention in Subotica that reforms in the education and health-care systems in Serbia are crucial to the development of the country, adding that Serbian citizens fear that their children will live

BELGRADE - Parties, coalitions and citizens' groups that want to participate in Serbia’s early parliamentary elections on March 16 have three more days to submit their candidate lists, until February 28 at midnight.

BELGRADE - Leader of the New Democratic Party (NDS) Boris Tadic has said that he does not fret over whether his party would pass the threshold in the early parliamentary election, and cautioned it would be no good that any party in Serbia wins over 50 percent of the vote on March 16.