{"id":1411161,"date":"2026-06-27T21:17:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/serbian-president-vucic-announces-his-resignation-and-early-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:17:42","slug":"serbian-president-vucic-announces-his-resignation-and-early-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/serbian-president-vucic-announces-his-resignation-and-early-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbian President Vu\u010di\u0107 announces his resignation and early elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he would step down in the coming weeks and called for early presidential and parliamentary elections. His announcement came amid ongoing anti-government protests in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/serbia-president-vucic-says-resign-within-weeks-one-year-before-end-mandate-2026-06-27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 made a corresponding statement on June 27 during a pro-government rally in Belgrade.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I will be president for only a few weeks, and then I will resign,&#8221; Vucic said.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, he announced the holding of early presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p> Vu\u010di\u0107&#8217;s second and final presidential term was due to end <strong>in mid-2027<\/strong> . He has been President of Serbia since 2017, having previously served as the country&#8217;s Prime Minister. The Serbian Progressive Party, which he represents, has been Serbia&#8217;s leading political force for many years.<\/p>\n<p> The president&#8217;s statement came amid prolonged protests that have become one of the biggest challenges to his government in recent years.<\/p>\n<p> Mass protests began after the tragedy in Novi Sad, where a concrete structure collapsed at the railway station in November 2024. As a result, 16 people died.<\/p>\n<p> Initially, protesters demanded punishment for those responsible for the tragedy, but later the actions grew into a broader anti-government movement. Demonstrators accuse the authorities of corruption, improper control over infrastructure projects, pressure on the media and abuse of power. The Serbian authorities reject these accusations.<\/p>\n<p> One of the main driving forces of the protest movement was students, who demanded early elections, a transparent investigation into the tragedy in Novi Sad, and political accountability of officials.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that in May, large-scale protests and clashes between demonstrators and police took place in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-serbii-desiatky-tysiach-liudey-vyyshly-na-antyuriadovi-protesty-usi-podrobytsi\/\">The participants of the action demanded the resignation of President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107<\/a> and the holding of early national elections.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he would step down in the coming weeks and called for early presidential and parliamentary elections. His announcement came amid ongoing anti-government protests in the country. This is reported by Reuters . Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 made a corresponding statement on June 27 during a pro-government rally in Belgrade. &#8220;I will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":874373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1411161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}