Russia is pleased with Vucic’s victory in Serbia and expects “brotherly cooperation” to continue

Russia is satisfied with the position of its ally in power in Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic.

On Monday, the Kremlin welcomed the victory of the Serbian ruling party under President Aleksandar Vucic in the parliamentary elections held the previous day.

“This is an exclusively internal affair of Serbia, Serbia is friendly to us, Serbia is brotherly to us.” “Of course we welcome this success of Mr. Vucic,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters at a press conference.

Peskov expressed that Moscow was closely monitoring the parliamentary elections in Serbia and said that Russia hoped that this would contribute to the further development of the country.

“Of course, we expect that the path of further strengthening our friendship, our mutually beneficial and respectful interaction will continue,” Peskov continued.

Early general and local elections were held in Serbia on Sunday for the country’s 250-member parliament, the 120-member Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and local councils.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić said that the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) had won 47% of the vote after half of the votes were counted.

She went on to say that the Serbia Against Violence (SPN) coalition received 23%, while the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the SNS’s governing partner, received 6.7%.

In this election, Russia’s influence on the election was reported. Vucic himself swore allegiance to Russia during the election campaign.

Vucic, the chief politician of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), appears to have run the election campaign alone, although the constitution does not allow the president to interfere in party politics. In gratitude for Russia’s support, he swore allegiance to Russia.

“I have fought to ensure that the friendship with Russia that we have built up over decades is not destroyed overnight,” Vucic said recently, referring to his continued refusal to impose sanctions on Russia despite his country’s EU candidate status, emphasizing that Russia belongs to Serbia. “traditional friend”.

Vucic has also repeatedly claimed in Serbian media that he controls Western countries funding the opposition in order to overthrow him.

Although it is by no means unacceptable to be pro-Russian in Serbia, both in real life and in the virtual world created and maintained by the media, the country paradoxically has much closer relations with the West than with Russia. Serbia conducts two-thirds of its trade with the EU, the source of most foreign investment.

Moreover, few people would choose to go to Russia to study or find work. For many, only the West offers a better future, especially Austria and Germany./The Geopost/