Center-right Vucic emerges as Serbian election winner
With polling stations closed on Sunday evening, Progressive Party (SNS) candidate Vucic appeared to be on his way to becoming prime minister, said observers.
The commercial electoral monitors CeSID said after the polls had closed that Vucic's party had won around 160 seats of the 250 available, with turnout put at 52 percent. If confirmed, the SNS score would be the highest for a single party in Serbia since 1990. It would also allow Vucic and the SNS to form a government on its own without seeking a coaltion partner.
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Vucic's Progressive Party forced the snap election halfway through the government's term of office, seeking a stronger mandate. The 44-year-old, who was once banned from entering the EU because of his alleged involvement in Slobodan Milosevic's regime, has travelled a long political path since then.
A lawyer by training, he joined the far-right Serbian Radical Party in 1993, becoming one of its top members and writing hard-line speeches. In 1998, Vucic became Milosevic's information minister. He famously defended the actions of ethnic Serb leaders in the the 1992 to 1995 war in Bosnia. "You kill one Serb and we will kill 100 Muslims," he said.
In 2008, he split with the Radical Party, to form the considerably more moderate SNS, developing a pro-EU agenda. Vucic also served as deputy to Prime Minister Dacic in the outgoing coalition.
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