Brnabic: SNS to speak with Vucic about his candidacy for PM

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Thursday that, as always, President Aleksandar Vucic would call all political factors to social dialogue and that the leadership of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) would speak with Vucic to ask him to be its candidate for PM.

In an appearance on the RTS, Brnabic said she was certain many would ignore the call to dialogue as they had in 2025 and in late 2024, as well as when they had "politicised the terrible tragedies from 2023."

She said that, in view of all circumstances, dialogue with SNS members and the party leadership would be the hardest for Vucic, above all, because "people in the SNS have had enough of remaining silent in the face of double standards and open hypocrisy by Brussels."

"Hardly anyone in the SNS is more pro-European than I am. And if I have had enough, then you can imagine how other SNS members feel about this," Brnabic said.

She added that University of Belgrade Rector Vladan Djokic had announced his presidential candidacy from the offices of the Rectorate, which she noted was a "shameful misuse" of the University.

"But they have already done that in the past and, in the end, we saw that it was all just politics," Brnabic said.

She said all developments in the past 48 hours had led Vucic to initiate social dialogue and that, above all, discussions about early parliamentary elections - demanded by pro-blockade activists - were needed.

Brnabic said Serbia's foreign policy course was another reason for dialogue.

"The only reason Vucic has not called early parliamentary elections is because the world is currently facing an unprecedented crisis," she said.

"We in the SNS will speak with the president and ask him to be our candidate for PM but, eventually, it will be up to him to decide," Brnabic said.

She said she expected discussions in the SNS to begin on Friday.